So I'm looking at the Whole Foods "On Sale" flyer, and the "sale" prices are like 4X Safeway prices

[Amerigo Vespucci]

But the thing that killed me...made me just want to walk out into the street and CLOCK the first Yuppie / trust fund kiddie son of a bitch piece of shit who crosses my path...was:



I'm SORRY, you know this and I know this, ANYONE who says "delish"...especially if they're talking about how sourdough bread is "delish" with fresh crab...needs to be beaten within an inch of their life. Who the fuck can afford fresh crab these days? JENNA BUSH! MEGHAN McCAIN! THEY'RE the ones who are dining on "delish" fresh crab and sourdough, DAMN IT!



"Have the maid send up more fresh crab! Oooh...and some of that DELISH sourdough, too. Ta!"

We don't always agree on DU, but I KNOW you ALL agree with me on this.

:eyes:

FUCKING Yuppies. And in case you're wondering why I was looking at a sale paper flyer for a store that gives me a fucking pulmonary embolism every time I DRIVE BY, let alone GO IN, which is almost NEVER...a friend gave me a gift card and I'm trying to figure out how to spend it on something other than a half pound of fucking broccoli florets at $200 a pound or a $100 organic flax seed honey granola muffin.

:rant:

All better now.

:-)

:rofl:

[RandomThoughts]

1. Inspiring photo

Celtic Woman - You Raise Me Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faKFcfytlxU

[hobbit709]

2. It isn't known as Whole Paycheck without reason.

I haven't set foot in one for at least 10 years. There are better and cheaper alternatives here in Austin.

[FamousBlueRaincoat]

3. whole foods is whack

Lots of the people who shop there are sort of dumb. And they also don't really know what "whole foods" are. You can find plenty of "whole foods" at any grocery store. And then a person goes to Whole Foods because it's "healthy" and get some candy snack crap, and think they're living great because it's "whole".

In addition to the store itself being a place of despair. I go there from time to time to get bulk foods...for some reason my grocery store doesn't have a bulk section. Rice, couscous, beans, that stuff. But man, whenever I go in there and have to listen and be around the people who shop there, it reminds me of why I just rather buy an overpriced one-meal cardboard box of couscous at the union shop across the street.

My cat's former owner used to work at whole foods, and for a while the only food my cat would eat was whole foods house brand of cat food. So I had to go there like once a month on a regular basis to stock up on cat food. Those were awful times.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. "I go in there and have to listen and be around the people who shop there"...

...my point exactly. That's why I'm going this morning, around the time they open, to minimize that. One level of frustration is the goods & prices. The other is the clientele...the worst "bubble people" Campbell has to offer...acid casualties, trust fund kids and yuppies. And many of the cashiers have that arrogant, superior tone that makes me wonder...do they realize they are checkout clerks in a glorified supermarket?

But free groceries are free groceries, and I should shut the hell up and be grateful for my friend's generosity at a tough time (I am)...I'm just not looking forward to venturing into the belly of teh beast.

:eyes:

:toast:

[noamnety]

12. This is an odd post

an incredibly judgmental post about strangers, and elitest as hell (do they realize they are JUST checkout clerks?) while admitting you're also struggling to get by. What are your thoughts about checkout clerks? Should they do a better job of acting according to their station in life?

Does it feel weird knowing that when you shop there, others in the store will be making wrong assumptions about you being a trust fund yuppie?

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Crab was $3.99/lb the week before Thanksgiving at Safeway

and "delish" isn't a word. Plus without even trying it I'd bet that WF's sourdough sucks as much as all supermarket bakery sourdough does.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. But is that Safeway crab the "good" crab or the chum bucket crab?

The "good" stuff has discernible pieces. The chum bucket variety is shredded all to hell and is basically the big mound of scraps they come up with after cleaning the crabs and pulling out the good meat for the yups who can afford it...

[Gormy Cuss]

8. Whole, locally caught Dungeness, silly.

The same as WF's crab.

What you're describing as chum bucket crab is what we called leg meat. The claws and leg sockets have that prized lump meat.;)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. I had an ex-girlfriend in the 80s who loved a dish called "Continental Crab"...

...and the local QFI market (are they even in business any more) sold the lump crab meat for around $12.99 a pound, so I'd buy a half pound to make Continental Crab for her. It was a Sunset Magazine recipe with a cream-wine-green onion base and you'd serve it over rice. I had a hard time keeping her out of the crab while I was cooking it. Those...in some ways, but not all...were the days.

:toast:

[noamnety]

5. There are a couple of good deals there this week - for those who do shop there.

If you buy a case of the smaller size pacific natural soups, you can combine http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/coupons/">store printable coupons with http://www.pacificfoods.com/where-to-buy/coupons">manufacturer printable coupons with the case discount to get them for 24 cents each. That's pretty tempting for soup flavors like rosemary potato or thai sweet potato or veggy lentil. And if you go on the company website and check out the nutrition/ingredient info, it's all real ingredients.



"Sweet potatoes and winter squash are combined with South Asian flavors of coconut, lemongrass, lime, red chili pepper and ginger for a mouthwatering treat that will not only awaken your tastebuds, but your sense of adventure."

Y'all might be too concerned about the flowery language to buy that for 24 cents but if there was a WF closer to me, I'd be all over that deal.

[jobycom]

10. Crab is expensive? It was garbage food for me growing up.

It's all we ate because it was so easy to catch. We'd buy chicken necks at the butchers for next to nothing, tie them in crab nets, and eat what we caught all week. The smell still nauseates me. They got expensive?

As for Whole Foods, it's my favorite place to shop. There are a lot of vegetarian and specialty items it's hard to find elsewhere, you can buy grains and beans in bulk (and they are usually the same price as the other stores), and they have a lot of good prepared foods that I can't get most places. I buy the bulk of my generic groceries elsewhere, but I buy a lot of specialty stuff at Whole Foods, and for the same or less than I'd get it elsewhere.

In fact, $1.99 for a loaf of sourdough isn't bad. I bet it would be delish with the spinach ravioli I just got at Costco. I'll have to see if they have that deal here.

[noamnety]

11. Funny - the only time I ate a lot of crab was when I was broke.

Same sort of deal, catching it ourselves. No bait, we didn't have money for that or the traps. We were just going into the water with a backpack and grabbing a couple and shoving them into it when we got hungry, and either cooking them on the embers from some other beachgoers' abandoned grill or if we couldn't find embers for free we'd cook them in a disposable ez-foil pan (we just had the one we kept reusing) at the apartment.

[BrendaBrick]

14. At one time......

.....lobster used to be ground up and used for fertilizer!

[siligut]

13. Whole Foods actually organizes its aisles and displays to encourage power struggles.

These power struggles encourage customers to spend more money, to show superiority. This was explained in a psychology seminar I attended. I also heard one of the saddest things ever, when I lived near a new Whole Foods installation. Outside my window, people used to park along my street to avoid the crowded parking lots, a woman screamed, "What about me?". I peeked out my back window and my impression was, her boyfriend decided he was too good for her after shopping at WF. I am glad I moved away, the neighborhood changed so much, upscale and mostly stoopid. However, it did increase our property value.

[coffeenap]

15. Bulk. Popcorn.

Yum!