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Post by Rose on Mar 6, 2013 14:55:10 GMT -5
Pizza for lunch.  |
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Post by marle on Apr 12, 2013 23:53:57 GMT -5
reading this in my weekly grocery store newsletter... "[Your local natural food store] now has Kombucha on tap." ...   Kombucha! On tap!   Booch on tap! Not *that* excited, just needed to post the gifs... *Sigh* it's hard finding things to feel excited about... |
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Post by CharlotteGirl on Apr 13, 2013 16:14:35 GMT -5
You must live in a posh/trendy area of the USA marle? AFAIK grocery store newsletters just don`t exist here nor does kombucha, indeed there are not that many independent grocery stores left in a lot of areas because the supermarkets have taken over even small local food shops. We don`t have anything like natural food stores, just ordinary health food shops, either independent or chains.
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Post by marle on Apr 13, 2013 16:49:36 GMT -5
Hi CharlotteGirl, I failed to mention the newsletter is just email, not print. The grocery store is a small co-op. I wouldn't consider my area very trendy. I've wondered why there isn't a big natural-food chain like Whole Foods in the area. Maybe our area is too small? Not really sure. As far as kombucha, it's funny because the last place I lived, the Buffalo, New York area is not very trendy yet almost every supermarket carried the stuff. Here, it's only sold at that one natural food co-op. But I'm probably not the best judge of what's trendy.  I like that little co-op. Hope it stays around. |
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Post by CharlotteGirl on Apr 14, 2013 22:10:00 GMT -5
Hi marle, Oh right, here co-ops usually refer to a large national supermarket federation with regional subsidiaries. There are certainly a few small co-op shops of various kinds about (remember a tv programme about something called the peoples' supermarket) though pretty rare AFAIK, presumably with e-mail newsletters. There may very well be some health food-oriented ones like what you describe somewhere, though I don`t know of any. It does sound quite nice. Well all I``ve heard about Whole Foods from newspapers is that it mainly targets well-off buyers and neighbourhoods, with higher prices, like some British supermarkets. Think they opened one or two British branches, hav`nt seen them. As for what is trendy and what is`nt, where I live is not a trendy area as such, unlike some! It`s complex, but quality healthy/natural food in general here is usually seen as a trendy middle-class/liberal kind of thing that varies with fashion, perhaps occasionally even attacked. As for America, what I`ve basically heard (perhaps partly cliches) is that areas are especially sharply divided between wealthy/poor/trendy or not, and that such decent food is even more exclusive/expensive than here. Assumed it often had the same trendy/fashionable connotations, but apologies if that`s wrong. |
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Post by marle on Apr 15, 2013 18:24:57 GMT -5
I just googled the neighboring city that co-op is in, and it's a little artsier than I realized. I've only been in this region 2 years, and I'm probably less aware than the average person of each town's reputation. This is the first co-op I've ever shopped at - I get the impression they're not common here. But for whatever luck, it's here and I like their selection of natural products. I buy 'weird' stuff there besides the kombucha, like raw milk, and yogurt that is 10x more sour than anything from the supermarket which I like to eat plain . Those wealthy/trendy/liberal connotations about healthy and organic food are true here, although I'm not sure how sharp the dividing lines are. More people are becoming interested in eating natural/organic and there's varying degrees of it. |
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Post by Astrodog on Apr 16, 2013 12:39:09 GMT -5
I love Bacon!  |
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Post by jwn57030 on Apr 17, 2013 20:36:18 GMT -5
I love that you love bacon.
Also Since I am watching Zombieland. I love Zombieland for reminding me that we will be the people who survive the zombie apocylpse. There's one positive thing about staying home on friday night.
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Post by Scotty on Apr 30, 2013 19:18:00 GMT -5
Strawberry milk!
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Post by CharlotteGirl on May 10, 2013 23:04:57 GMT -5
Well kind of, the fact that the bbc2 overnight 'upcoming preview' with extracts of tv programmes here, never seems to change at all! It`s on uk tv from 1.50-6am every night. Before the analogue-digital switchover was complete, it used to show random pages from ceefax (the bbc`s old analogue teletext service) with rather banal background music. Now, unlike say the itv nightscreen, they just seem to never bother updating it, although all the advertised programmes have clearly long since been broadcast, why?
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Post by Thought Analyst on Jun 2, 2013 12:32:44 GMT -5
The nice cool breeze that came overnight in my area and also this morning (humidex temps Friday and Saturday, made me sooo tired). |
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Post by Scotty on Jul 7, 2013 20:29:58 GMT -5
That Andy Murray won Wimbledon! |
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Post by Sigh on Jul 8, 2013 8:00:58 GMT -5
That Andy Murray won Wimbledon! I'm seeing a theme here, Scotty |
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Post by Sexy Spork #37 on Jul 8, 2013 8:39:45 GMT -5
The Google Roswell doodle game thing.
That little alien is so cute.
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Post by marle on Jul 13, 2013 17:46:10 GMT -5
I'm going to see a Broadway show tomorrow. |
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Befriend the trees...they are good listeners. ;D
