Talk to me about grocery shopping

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it's not like they're far, they're all JUSt too far away to walk to.

you have a car, drive it and keep the economy going! carrying groceries home is about as fun as lugging laundry across town by hand.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael, would you describe yourself as a bon vivant?

Autant que cela m'est permis de l'être.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

When we were in Ohio, we paid about $60 a week for groceries! :(

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Even in London we only paid about $100.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not like they're far, they're all JUSt too far away to walk to.

First of all, I can always use the excercise. Second, if winded, I can stop for a pint on the way home. Tertio, if you're only buying some fresh vegetables or whatnot for dinner, it's really not that taxing. Of course I'm talking about walking 5 or six blocks at most.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

carrying groceries home is about as fun as lugging laundry across town by hand.

When I lived in Hells Kitchen I had my little cart for groceries and had laundry in the building. When I lived in Carroll Gardens my apartment was over a grocery store, and I had my tiny handtruck to take my hamper to the laundromat across the street.

Ah, so many memories.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm serious, too. Having no car when I lived in NYC made me really happy almost all of the time.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

NYC is made for that kind of thing, true.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Grocery shopping in NYC is hell. the little itty bitty not-quite-supermarkets, luggin one's groceries home, the inability to find good produce, paying way too much for everything...ungh. I hate grocery shopping anyway. I always wind up waiting until I have nothing in my place and then wander the grocery store aisles totally famished and find none of it appealing, then wind up coming home with the same things I always do.

― mouse, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I am horribly brand-dependent which makes shopping kind of a pain sometimes. I have to drink Fresca. no-one carries Fresca. Or when they do, they only get a small supply and other addicts buy it up. So sometimes this involves going to other markets. I only really like one kind of laundry detergent and it's hard to find, so sometimes I have to drive all over the place to find it. I had to switch to disposable razors because I gave up on ever finding the razor cartridges I liked anywhere other than walgreens in the Mission district. The drug store near my house carries all the suck ass scents of deoderant except for the one I use.

I wish I didn't care so much!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

You need to become a hippie.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything is here for you.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i go to trader joes for booze. i RARELY go grocery shopping (special occasions).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I told Spencer that I had my first granola experience, and enjoyed it! He said that it's okay as long as you don't tell anyone about it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

D'oh!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax, recommend a good wine I can get at trader joe's.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like grocery shopping. I like looking at the sales flyers and cutting coupons and planning what to buy. The best is using double coupons on something that's on sale, sometimes it's the highlight of my day.

I like Shop-Rite. C-Town is so nasty.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

trader joes also has that south american wine with the bright label (sorry, forgot the name) for $1.99 a bottle that the 2000 vintage is going for $15.99... not a bad investment, better than the stock market or electroclash CDs.

-- gygax!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

trader joe's has lots of goodish dirt-cheap French wines.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

A good wine at Trader Joe's... well, what type of wine do you like?

xpost: that statement is still true!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Sancerre, but they don't seem to carry it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Kermit-Lynch had some good Sancerres for under $15.00. Have you tried any Chilean or S.African sauvignon blancs?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I don't tend to like Sauvignon, but I only drink the cheap ones.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I could go for a decent Pinot Grigio, too.

I don't know why I am suddenly on a white wine thing, I def. prefer red.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Sancerre is a sauvignon blanc.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It is? Oh well, ignore everything else I say on this subject then.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

As I get older I find it easier to drink white wine and harder to drink red without food.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Getting old is scary!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Consider the alternative.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@ml, you met the former imports manager for Kermit-Lynch when we were all briefly sitting together upstairs at the Edinburgh Castle.

here's the new trader joes flyer... there may be some good recommendations in there:
http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless/NC.pdf

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

a good alsacian gewurz like Trimbach is great summer drinking with or without good food.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure clarkeb would agree.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that you can all see I know nothing about wine, you can lie to me.

@d@ml, you met the former imports manager for Kermit-Lynch when we were all briefly sitting together upstairs at the Edinburgh Castle.

Dude with the glasses that was talking about Etta James?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax!,

Where did you get the TJ's flyer?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Alsatian, Sancerre, Muscadet, and Rose from Provence all on the summer drinking menu.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't buy groceries anymore. when I did I'd usually buy a bunch of stuff that would go bad.

now i just go for diet dr pepper, beer, water and vegetables for my iguana. i was going to go tonight b/c i need to start eating yogurt again but it's raining.

when i shopped i would go to albertsons b/c whole foods is too expensive. now i usually go to fiesta because it's two blocks away and i never get more than 3 or 4 things away. i miss HEB in central texas.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What vegetables do iguanas eat?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

non sequitur, eh?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude with the glasses that was talking about Etta James?

close, his girlfriend.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

OH.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

See Adam, you gotta give the girls a bit more respect, man. ;)

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i know, such chauvinism. *flounces off*

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I just assumed she was some floozy.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

poor @d@ml, you probably thought she was there for your entertainment.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It wouldn't be the first time.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

What vegetables do iguanas eat?

green beans, greens, sweet potatoes, chayote squash.. stuff like that.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to come up with something about the kind of iguanas vegetables eat but then I thought better of it.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam,

Is school out?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit, this is the thread for me.

I live across the street from a cheap-stuff chain called Save-a-Lot, aka Eric Rudolph's Favorite Store (he was captured behind one), so from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. we have a big-ass pantry and fridge available and don't have to stock up on staples. We can let ourselves run out of stuff like bread and milk completely before going out for more. This time of year there are produce stands popping up everywhere you look, so the fresh veggies are covered. For TP and laundry detergent etc, there's Sam's Club every three weeks or so. (Sam's is shit compared to Costco, which I went to back in CA and miss a lot. I'm tempted to renew my Costco membership just for the 2-3 times a year it would be convenient for me to shop at the Memphis locations.)

I miss California produce. I haven't had a decent artichoke or been to a decent farmer's market in 3 years. But I can't complain about the tomatoes here.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Is school out?

yes. i have two months to decide if i'm returning. so far my iguana chingy has offered no advice. i'm thinking of downgrading him to iceburg lettuce.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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