Oooh, your Safeway confession reminds me of a recent incident imnotandrei had at Whole Foods. This is reported second-hand.
He was at WF because it was late, they were open, and I needed lamb for a recipe. So he brings up exactly one pound of lamb and nothing else to the checkout.
The guy at the checkout snickers and says, "Hey dude, want any vegetables with that?"
"No," he replied, "I have vegetables at home. I don't need to come here for vegetables. I get them from a farm [Terra Firma Farm, to be exact]. Tell me, do you know where your vegetables come from?
"Um, sure, it's on the label."
"But have you ever been to where they're grown? Because I have."
"No. Um, OK, man."
It was, I'm told, a very satisfying reversal of retail snobbitude.
Because we get all our veggies from the box, we often have really skewed grocery hauls, and we like to speculate about what the clerks think we're planning on doing with, say, a box of saltines, three lemons, and a bottle of olive oil.
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Date: 2003-11-20 12:03 pm (UTC)He was at WF because it was late, they were open, and I needed lamb for a recipe. So he brings up exactly one pound of lamb and nothing else to the checkout.
The guy at the checkout snickers and says, "Hey dude, want any vegetables with that?"
"No," he replied, "I have vegetables at home. I don't need to come here for vegetables. I get them from a farm [Terra Firma Farm, to be exact]. Tell me, do you know where your vegetables come from?
"Um, sure, it's on the label."
"But have you ever been to where they're grown? Because I have."
"No. Um, OK, man."
It was, I'm told, a very satisfying reversal of retail snobbitude.
Because we get all our veggies from the box, we often have really skewed grocery hauls, and we like to speculate about what the clerks think we're planning on doing with, say, a box of saltines, three lemons, and a bottle of olive oil.