Category: Fun at the Market
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Goodbye to a Local Market
I don’t shop at nice grocery stores with bright lights clean floors and matching uniforms. Nope. The stores I go to are old and cruddy looking. These stores are going, and they’re not coming back. I believe that if we all make just a little effort to shop at our favorite shores, we can make…
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Feed Gisele Bundchen
So, Gisele Bundchen, supermodel, has a cookbook. Or a plea for help. I’m not quite sure. The book is entitled “Nourish Gisele Bundchen”.
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Days and Confused
I’m at our local seafood store, smiling and chatting with the sales clerk. I’ve been going to this store for over 20 years, and she’s been there as long as I can remember (which, coincidentally, was probably last Monday). Over those years, she’s been very nice and professional. I’ve been me. I’m pretty sure that,…
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A Ton of Fun
So, I’m at the local grocery store in a reasonably busy line. Karen’s Line. She’s been a clerk there for many years and is nice to me. (At least to my face – my picture is probably on a dart board in the employees lounge – well deserved, I might add.) I’m joking with this…
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Blanding In
I’m quite sure that in the employees’ lounge of my local supermarket there is a grainy photo of me, taken by one of the security cameras, with the a large statement in bold type: DO NOT TALK TO THIS MAN It would be completely justified.
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It’s Gonna be Epic
So I’m shopping at the local supermarket. For every purchase, they have me enter my phone number and in return I get a small break on gas (Umm… don’t misinterpret that one). I know that the reason that they do this is because they collect information on our shopping habits and predict what we’re doing…
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The Cook I Want To Be
My favorite bookstore in Sonoma, Reader’s Books, has a great cookbook selection. I happened across this book. It begs the question, exactly what kind of cook do I want to be? My friends and family would say either Jacques Pepin or Julia Child. They would be sure that the are correct. They would be wrong.…
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Eating Healthy
Yes, I honestly did this. I walked into Starbucks, where their sign says “Anytime Protein”. Under this are a series of bacon and egg sandwiches. I pointed at the sign and asked the barista: “At what time is bacon NOT a protein? Is there a specific time where bacon is not a protein? If bacon…
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Half-Baked
This is a memorandum to Mr. Howard Shultz, Founder of Starbucks and all around good guy. You’re missing the boat, Mister. Let’s start with the fact that Starbucks is pretty much a worldwide organization worth about $20B according to my friends at Google. But, in today’s world this is not enough. You need to keep…
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