What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

Where's the protein? There's no protein in either of those!

Not familiar with milk proteins?

There's protein in the cream, sure, but not enough.

Minestrone
1 cup of garbanzo beans = 1.00
onion = .50
2 carrots = .20
4 garlic cloves = .80
2 stalks celery = 1.50
1 lb. turnips = 2.00
2 red potatoes = .50

thyme
bay leaf
water

Ah, beans, a good cheap source of protein. I hate beans. Come to think of it though, I really don't like soup.

Those are also not NY prices. Definitely not Long Island prices. Yellow onions are about $1.99/lb, one small onion is gonna be at least $1. Red potatoes are something like $1.99/lb. Two red potatoes have to be at least a pound, if not a little more. One stalk of celery is $2.49. I think garlic is $2.99/lb, not sure how much 4 cloves would end up costing. Probably about that. I guess carrots are about right considering a 1lb package is $1.79. I don't know the price of turnips off the top of my head.

Two red potatoes = 1 lb.? Not even close. 1/4 lb at most unless you have some incredible mutated potatoes.

You buy celery by the head, which contains multiple stalks.

You usually buy garlic by the head, not by the clove. Actually, I've never heard of anyone selling it by the clove. A small head of garlic usually runs $.50, or around $1.00 for a large head.

A good sized onion weighs around half a pound.

I'm sure my prices are a bit cheaper since I tend to shop at a farmer's market, but I've been cooking at least five meals a week since 1992, and have been doing the grocery shopping since 1997. I'm pretty good with guesstimating what meals cost.

[Ziggy]

Two red potatoes = 1 lb.? Not even close. 1/4 lb at most unless you have some incredible mutated potatoes.

You buy celery by the head, which contains multiple stalks.

You usually buy garlic by the head, not by the clove. Actually, I've never heard of anyone selling it by the clove. A small head of garlic usually runs $.50, or around $1.00 for a large head.

A good sized onion weighs around half a pound.

I'm sure my prices are a bit cheaper since I tend to shop at a farmer's market, but I've been cooking at least five meals a week since 1992, and have been doing the grocery shopping since 1997. I'm pretty good with guesstimating what meals cost.

If you buy a 3 or 5lb bag of red potatoes, not only are you gonna get a slightly cheaper price per pound but you're also likely gonna get a "B size" potato. Loose potatoes are generally bigger, and if you were to buy two, they'd be a little over half a pound. Maybe a pound was me over estimating, but I actually just weighed two red potatoes and it was about .64 lbs.

I realize that I said a small onion, I meant to say a medium onion. So yeah, 1 onion would be about a dollar.

I've never heard any one refer to it as a head of celery. I know different locations have different terminology, we generally just call the it celery stalks. But I was just pointing out that celery is $2.49 to buy, which every one complains as being really expensive. I just assume it's more than what you pay for celery.

Likewise with garlic. I don't know how much a bulb we cost (we call it a bulb, not a head) but I just wanted to point out that I know it's $2.99/lb. And FYI, since it is sold by the pound, you CAN but just a clove or two if you wanted. Just brake a clove off of a bulb and it gets weighed at the register.

I definitely haven't clocked as many hours as you when it comes to cooking or shopping in a supermarket. However, I'm more than sure I've clocked more hours than you of being in a supermarket, since I've worked in one for the past 10 years.


I'm not really a fan of soup, but if I WAS gonna make a soup it would be chicken noodle. Chicken noodle soup would cost something like $10-15 to make. However, out of that money, you'd have a whole chicken that you'd get a first meal out of. Plus left over chicken not only for the soup, but probably enough for some chicken salad (with the left over celery too).

[mjmjr25]

Likewise with garlic. I don't know how much a bulb we cost (we call it a bulb, not a head) but I just wanted to point out that I know it's $2.99/lb. And FYI, since it is sold by the pound, you CAN but just a clove or two if you wanted. Just brake a clove off of a bulb and it gets weighed at the register.

1lb of garlic is...a lot of garlic. Even at $2.99/lb, that's not over priced and is about the norm where i'm at. That said, i've been to many farmer's markets, and even the most open, friendly, make-the-rules-as-you-go have not allowed the separating of a head of garlic to remove a single clove. It would break the stem seal and the other remaining cloves would begin to go bad sooner. Garlic is incredibly hearty if kept cool / dark, but still, I can't imagine a place allowing customers to pull out individual cloves. It'd be akin to grabbing that bag with head of celery and pulling off a single stalk.

[Ziggy]

1lb of garlic is...a lot of garlic. Even at $2.99/lb, that's not over priced and is about the norm where i'm at. That said, i've been to many farmer's markets, and even the most open, friendly, make-the-rules-as-you-go have not allowed the separating of a head of garlic to remove a single clove. It would break the stem seal and the other remaining cloves would begin to go bad sooner. Garlic is incredibly hearty if kept cool / dark, but still, I can't imagine a place allowing customers to pull out individual cloves. It'd be akin to grabbing that bag with head of celery and pulling off a single stalk.

Not so much. Almost every bulb has that one outer clove that can be broken off (and is usually eventually broken off just from getting knocked around) without effecting the rest of the bulb. I'm not talking about breaking an entire bulb apart and doing what you'd please with it.

That being said, you should see some of the things I've seen supermarket customers do, and some of the things I've heard. I've seen a dude rip open a 3lb bag of apples and pick out the ones he wanted... while there was LOOSE apples of the same variety available. I've heard of people in the less wealthy areas request 50 cents worth of cheese from the deli. I had a deli clerk tell me they'd make you brake a slice in half if it went over 50 cents. And this was something that would happen all the time, not just once in a while.

But purchasing just a few cloves of garlic, that actually doesn't seem as bizarre. I've seen it done before, and without breaking an entire bulb apart.

[aaron]

+ got back from the Louisville Arcade Expo this past weekend and had a blast. not a lot of vendors but TONS of pins and a lot of cool, rare-ish consoles. i took a bunch of pics and i'll post them later today.

+ scored a CIB copy of Legendary Axe II in a trade for some garbage i didn't want anymore

- super busy week at work and at school, but

+ i gave an informative speech in my R110 class about the history of Sega and i got an A+

[prfsnl_gmr]

That being said, you should see some of the things I've seen supermarket customers do, and some of the things I've heard.

A colleague of mine recently saw a woman in a Wal-Mart eating deli chicken wings on her scooter and then dropping the chewed bones on the floor. When the woman notice my colleague staring at her, she simply kicked the chicken bones under the shelves as if that made it better.

[samsonlonghair]

farmers markets and saving money on food

Make nice with your local farmers. They often grow more food than they can eat/sell and give away food to friends. I just got a few mason jars of potatoes last month. Last night a farm girl offered me a free goat. I wanted to buy a lamb, but it's hard to decline something that's free.

[Ziggy]

Smile: So I've had the hemorrhoid thing going on, but today is the first day that I can honestly say it's getting better. Still not 100%, but better than what it was.

Frown: I called my boss at job 1 up and told him I wont be able to make it in tomorrow, but I should be good to go for Saturday. He didn't seem happy, and seemed like he doubted the legitimacy of me calling out of work. This really pisses me off.

First off, I got the hemorrhoid issue while AT work. So I'm not really eager to go back there until it's feeling better. I don't wanna make it worse! And secondly, fuck them all. I work hard there, and the company treats us poorly. And thirdly, I'm thinking I feel a little better today, if it feels this much better by tomorrow then by Saturday it should be alright to work with even if it hasn't totally gone away. So I'm thinking I'll go back to work on Saturday whether or not I'm 100% or not, and I get the impression from my boss like he thinks I'm dicking around. THAT really pisses me off. I give that place a lot. Excuse me if I don't feel like working with hemorrhoids.

I sent my boss at job 2 a text (we usually text) that I'd be out for a few days due to hemorrhoid problems. He never replied. I hate that. Why didn't he reply?

I just hate that I can get praise from both jobs for my work, but then if I have to call out for legit reasons I get the impression that they're like, "fuck him, he can work, he just doesn't want to."

[Ziggy]

A colleague of mine recently saw a woman in a Wal-Mart eating deli chicken wings on her scooter and then dropping the chewed bones on the floor. When the woman notice my colleague staring at her, she simply kicked the chicken bones under the shelves as if that made it better.

I think some of the worst things I've seen I have blocked out. I remember one old man sticking his bare hand into egg salad from the salad bar and eating it out of his hand. Nice. All the proof I need to know that salad bars are just as bad as you think they are. I think the funniest part about it is we found out because he actually walked up to an employee to ask a question. She was like, "What's that on your hand? Did you just reach in with your bare hand!?" She told me he said no, but she went over to the salad bar and saw an obvious hand swipe in the egg salad lol.

[Hobie-wan]

I've heard of people in the less wealthy areas request 50 cents worth of cheese from the deli. I had a deli clerk tell me they'd make you brake a slice in half if it went over 50 cents. And this was something that would happen all the time, not just once in a while.

I wonder if some of the deli people at my grocery store have had that happen. If I ask for half a pound of something I'm not picky, just whatever's close will do. Sometimes everything is normal and I end up with .53 and I pay the rate for that. Fine. Other times I've had it adjusted to exactly .5 or had them look at me like "oh crap, is that ok it's over?" and I just tell them it's fine.

I was after some guy that just wanted 3 slices of ham or something once and was being really particular about it. I could understand if he was having it cut thick for breakfast ham steak use or whatever, but this was sandwich thickness he was getting. I doubt he was trying to limit calories because he sampled several things too.