Eating in the grocery store

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Can't you wait you gluttonous hog? You'll be out in the car in like 11 minutes so why don't you wait to shove Nutter-Butters down your gullet, hogface? You haven't even paid for that yet.

― andy --, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE DO THIS IT'S GROSS!

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

a store is not a restaurant, and it's not your living room couch. just WAIT a few minutes, sheesh.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

B-b-b-but the samples!

― Edgware General (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

that's different. those are free!

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

It is horrible, but I wonder whether my puritan position on food - it bugs me when people eat ice-cream or chocolate or nearly anything on the street, as opposed to sitting down and really enjoying it - doesn't make me more horrible.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Parents who let their kids eat in the store and hand empty/opened packages to the checker to be scanned: "Dud" or "Should Be Shot."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Also I myself do eat lots of mushrooms in the supermarket, but not at the checkout.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Especially since they're using the food as a pacifier anyway. (xp)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Stealing food is fine, but eating and then paying for the empty bag or can is just GLUTTONY which is a sin.

― andy --, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

what is with this aversion ILX has to seeing people eat?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind watching people eat, I mind watching people have so little self-control that they have to jam the food down their craw as soon as they see it.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

i was thinking of starting a thread on the "for here or to go?" phenomenon. for some reason ordering takeout really bugs me (unless you're just walking it across the street and plan to eat it immediately). i know this sounds pretentious, but i respect what cooks do enough that i want to enjoy the food as soon as it comes out of the kitchen, the way it's meant to be enjoyed. not, you know, an hour later when it's gone cold and gotten a nuking in the microwave.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

it's like people don't care whether their food is good or not, they just wanna shove it down their gullets.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm assuming that you mean "proper" restaurants, and not Chinese take-out or Burger King.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

people be eatin'!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Whenever I go to Dillard's, I like to put all my new clothes on and then go up to the register.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

My other pet peeve is lardasses making a big production of ordering fast food, like they're at Tavern on the Green, and then waiting RIGHT AT THE COUNTER for their greasy swill... It's okay to step back a foot or two, they won't forget you, lardass.

― andy -, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm assuming that you mean "proper" restaurants, and not Chinese take-out or Burger King.

burger king food is made by 15-year-old dipshits who sling their snot into the hamburgers.

chinese take-out can be great, but it really depends on the restaurant. i try not to order from anywhere too far away.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

andy, i agree with you, but i take issue with the "lardass" thing -- skinny people are just as needlessly fussy as so-called lardasses. (also, a major bugbear of mine is this idea that only fat people eat fattening food. you should see my tiny roommates gulping down their 12-packs of coke and chinese food loaded with corn starch and high-sodium sauces. every damn night.)

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I too have a bit of an aversion to eating while walking down the street or in the grocery store. The size of the person doesn't matter though. I guess some people have blood sugar issues, but hey, eat a tic-tac maybe or drink some juice and wait to eat until you're out of the store or sitting down on a bench or something. This is harder to follow with ice cream, but one can always stand in one place. Liquids seem okay, however. Weird.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

When I said "Lardass," I wasn't speaking of size but rather food-obsession, which affects people of all sizes. I'm talking about people that ask alot of questions at Taco Bell, and are usually impatient or snide to the poor acne'd brain-dead youth that work there.

― andy --, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

When I said "Lardass," I wasn't speaking of size but rather food-obsession, which affects people of all sizes.

surrrrre.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm a born diplomat, yo.

― andy --, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I sympathize with this under one circumstance, when "blood sugar issues" = my diabetic grandmother needing to drink a soda to get herself around the grocery store after she starts feeling faint and has failed yet again to eat a proper meal at home beforehand. Better that she drinks part of the soda and doesn't collapse and break bones, but ideally she should take better care of herself and eat right. She has manners though, she usually pays for the soda before she starts drinking it.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Grandmas can do whatever they want :) Seniors get a free pass for a lot of things, and, hey, rightly so. I, for one, cannot wait - I'm ooolllld, leave me alone with your weird aversions, kids!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Occasionally I will scarf down a granola bar or muffin in the store (which I do pay for), but more in order to avoid the whole "shopping while I'm hungry" thing than out of gluttony.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

it would be cool if people brought in a little table and chairs, and ate like a picnic!! and then tidied it all up and paid when they left!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

better yet, bought the table and chairs there!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

The Whole Foods stores (at least in the Washington area) have sections where shoppers can sit down and eat. Although you do have to pay for the food first.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

clearly the solution here is to have sample tables set up on every day of the week, not just friday-sunday.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

So, I find myself alone in an andy thread.

I don't do this, but have zero problems with people who do, unless it's something gooey, in which case, leaving goo on the debit machine keybad is just gross, but that doesn't happen often. If you're fucking hungry, you're fucking hungry. Are we going to complain about people who use curse words in public? or is it cool as long as one's vanity isn't possibly being undermined? (a common theme in andy related threads, I notice)

Also, most of the grocery stores I go to have tables inside where you can sit and eat the hot/fast-food items, so my universe of supermarkets is really warped into this alternate hippie universe that seems different than most here, it seems, but anyway...

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

The worst, for me, was when I was a grocery store checker and people would let their kids eat something like a banana, then hand me the gooey banana peel, which I clearly couldn't ring up anymore, since bananas are sold by weight. And then they'd smile and say, "Yes, throw that away for me."
Or when someone would hand me a sticky candy wrapper or something. I AM NOT A RECEPTACLE, MOST OF THE TIME.

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Vanity is all we have, really. xpost

― andy --, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

next we're going to be complaining about people who use vibrators before leaving the adult shop!!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Vanity is all we have, really.

Vanity kills. It don't pay bills. Vanity kills. You love you, HOOOUUNH!

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

next we're going to be complaining about people who use vibrators before leaving the adult shop!!

Well, that's different. It's easy enough for supermarket clerks to scan UPC codes from wrappers, but it's really rude to ask clerks to scan inside people's orifaces.

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

rude is what adult shops are all about!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

For some reason I just got this image of a high-contrast-colour student art film of people eating gooey things in a grocery store and then handing the check-out person their wrappers, ice cream boxes, banana peels, etc. (Like, "hey guys, wouldn't it be awesomely subversive if we...") God, I hate 90% of student art films so much.

(and haha, kirsten, your last sentence is gold.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

rude is what adult shops are all about!!

If this is a serious comment, I actually honestly disagree, Mark. While I have frequented adult shops barely, the demeanor of people inside the establishments are usually VERY well behaved and quiet! Libraries seem kinda loud and rude in comparison.

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Purchasing a large butt plug can be a humbling experience... a pause for reflection.

― andy --, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

it is difficult to be anything other than reverent when before a two foot dildo on a wall.
xpost

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Well, buying a large butt plug is safer than borrowing one from a sex library.

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

for some reason ordering takeout really bugs me (unless you're just walking it across the street and plan to eat it immediately). i know this sounds pretentious, but i respect what cooks do enough that i want to enjoy the food as soon as it comes out of the kitchen, the way it's meant to be enjoyed. not, you know, an hour later when it's gone cold and gotten a nuking in the microwave.

It depends a lot on the restaurant and the overall chance you're going to enjoy the experience. There are a couple places where the food is great, but I almost always order to go because the place is noisy, filled with screaming kids, people on cell phones, etc. It's not an issue about eating, but more one of politeness (which is in short supply anyway).

Still, if a place delivers I'll almost always have it delivered.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

An adult store that delivers, that'd be a great idea!

(Oh, yeah... the internet.)

― andy --, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

www.dildoelivery.com

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

..for when you need it NOW!

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

rude is english for involves sex

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Main Entry: rude
Pronunciation: 'rüd
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): rud·er; rud·est
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin rudis; probably akin to Latin rudus rubble
1 a : being in a rough or unfinished state : CRUDE b : NATURAL, RAW c : PRIMITIVE, UNDEVELOPED d : SIMPLE, ELEMENTAL
2 : lacking refinement or delicacy: a : IGNORANT, UNLEARNED b : INELEGANT, UNCOUTH c : offensive in manner or action : DISCOURTEOUS d : UNCIVILIZED, SAVAGE e : COARSE, VULGAR
3 : marked by or suggestive of lack of training or skill : INEXPERIENCED
4 : ROBUST, STURDY
5 : occurring abruptly and disconcertingly <a rude awakening>
- rude·ly adverb
synonyms RUDE, ROUGH, CRUDE, RAW mean lacking in social refinement. RUDE implies ignorance of or indifference to good form; it may suggest intentional discourtesy . ROUGH is likely to stress lack of polish and gentleness . CRUDE may apply to thought or behavior limited to the gross, the obvious, or the primitive and ignorant of civilized amenities <a crude joke>. RAW suggests being untested, inexperienced, or unfinished .
6 : involves sex

!!!

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

Now, the girl's rude, I know she's rude, but she's screwed right through you, you'll be clucking 'aw luv' as she slurps down peperamis in the checkout line ya tool

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

The lovely Emma B is a born genius at trying out olives and grapes and ting in teh supermarket even if, maybe especially if, she has no intention of buying them. This kind of grocery store eating I've come to heartily endorse

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm confused. When did Tracer become the editor of the Do's & Don't at Vice?

― donut e-g (donut), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you have the rite thread donut g?? if so I am confused, too :(

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

i used to get lots of free cheese to nibble on in the supermarket when i was a kid. that was nice

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

I only get a 30 minute lunch so i'll be eating at teh checkout and making sure i'm drinking speaking and dribbling all at teh same time. just so i dont get fired.

Yours

gluttenous fat lardy one

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

my friend and i got stuck waiting for 50 minutes at waitrose earlier this year, and after about half an hour we had to break into a packet of custard creams. i considered it a far lesser offense than skipping out and abadoning our huge trolly of shopping for the employees to reshelve, which people do all the damn time when the queues get even slightly lengthy. that is truly objectionable behaviour.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

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