stupid grocery store i hate u

Yeah I'm kind of a prick but seriously how hard is it to stock more than two brands of this crap

imagine if you had to go there to start a thread on ILX though!?

I like the blinding flourescent lights at the one near me that leave me feeling like I'm going to fucking die if I spend more than five minutes or so inside the place. I was under the apparently mistaken impression that the minds behind these places spend untold amounts of time and money figuring out ways to keep people in their stores for as long as possible-- as opposed to making them run out screaming b/c their eyeballs are burning

Also one time some fuckwad working there yelled at me as I was exiting the store and tried to accuse me of shoplifting. Fuck that fucking place

imagine if you had to go there to start a thread on ILX though!?

I HATE APPLE is already a thread

dell, you don't happen to shop at the Safeway on 15th in Seattle, do you? It's otherwise known as Tbe Brightest Supermarket In The World.

c-town can suck it

i think my apartment's bigger than that shit.

I think I'm maybe just going to have to learn to rent a car or abuse a cabbie every other week or so to get from TJ's or whole foods for sustenance

dr ben can continue to get his necessary stockpiles via peapod

I can't find a shot of eric idle from this one so pretend he's on the right:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/85/Argument_Clinic.png/300px-Argument_Clinic.png

I feel really sorry for you.

good, that was the point.

Tom, have you contacted the grocery store people and just asked them to stock ur frozen burritos and limeade?

http://whitewhine.tumblr.com/

how they know them people are white

Tom, have you contacted the grocery store people and just asked them to stock ur frozen burritos and limeade?

-- Mackro Mackro, Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:43 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^do this. bet they hook you up.

The Saudi gentleman who runs the corner store near my house and whose name is "Mr. T" asks me to tell him what to get. The only thing I ask for is chili-lime dried lima beans but they're hard to get and I deplete his stock in a week.

i thought you said you despise his stock in a week for a second there

maybe you're the only sucker who eats that shit. ;-)

You should ask "Mr.T" to open a store in TOMBOT's neighborhood.

Chili-lime dried lima beans is very random and abstract. That's why it's good to know your grocer!

I also just like saying chili lime dried lima beans. Repeatedly. To myself.

I used to request certain ice cream flavors from my last two Brooklyn delis! Worth a try if you ever want to see Mint Chip again.

Who has "preferred brands" of frozen burritos and ramen? Dude...

Mint Chip = Mint Chocolate Chip?

If you just say chili lime dried lima beans a few times all of your anger goes away.

no it is mint potato chip ice cream
xpost

your chipmint of chilly lime beans have arrive!

Who has "preferred brands" of frozen burritos and ramen? Dude...

How is that weird? Some frozen burritos are completely disgusting, and there are many different varieties of ramen which vary widely in quality, seasoning, and so forth.

rrobyn, you can't go walking around saying mint chip to people who might not be in the know!
That's crazy talk!
Mint potato chip ice cream, hmmm...that's two thing I like...

sweet and savory?

my store will always start off carrying 3 or so varieties or something, 1 of which I love and the other 2 being awful. Invariably, they'll stop carrying the on I like and the other 2 will remain. I guess I should hate the rest of the community for buying the 2 awful ones, and not hate the store. But it's more fun to hate a store. Besides, I've already got plenty of reasons to hate the community.

Love the sinner, hate the sin?

It might not have anything to do with what's selling; it might be a slotting fees issue.

Mackro and carne's advice is good, though-- just ask the people in the store if they can carry what you're interested in...and maybe enlist a couple of friends to come in on different occasions and pester them about the product as well. It's worth a shot, I think.

I like saying "chili lime dried lima beans" too. Maybe we can start chanting this together and hold hands.

But what I'm trying to understand is...do they taste like chili peppers & lime?? I didn't know it was possible to acheive that with dried beans, but then I never use dried beans.

DRIED LIMA BEANS!

There is nobody on earth except the above poster who wants a dried lima bean.
AND it is really fun to say.

Nah, I bet they're really good-- like those dried masala chick peas you can get at Indian grocers.

Why would you want a dried lima bean? I guess people like lima beans - they are sort of the notorious "yucky" food thing for american kids of my generation..

The point is - how wonderful to be able to ask your grocer for something specific and get it.
I do have a big story to tell about it, since I've been living with the WF grocery guy for ten years.

So, Whole Fods has its share of zany customers. This one woman insisted that the water she was buying - bottled water - be delivered from the truck to a shopping cart because she didn't "want it to touch the ground, because that would change the Ph and chemical nature of it".

And, of course, they did it for her, while saying under their breaths "where the fuck do you think water comes from? The ground!"

That woman sounds like a Fod.

Awesome spell check Dell!

That would be a great name for idiot customers.
'Don't be a Fod!"

be a mod? :) :) apologies to Tombot because his store sucks.

I think they should rename the store that, as well. And Trader Joe's should be renamed "Trader Gary's".

maybe stores should have competitions so people could have the store named after them on a weekly basis.

The person who shops the most gets to name the store.

Whole Alison. (i would never win.)

The person who shops the most gets to name the store.

Yeah, but then only women would ever win, because, well, y'know... :D

And what's wrong with calling it Trader Hillary's, you sexist pig:)?

Traitor who?

lol

god's limas:

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7886/habaspp0.jpg

I know they look like little dried fetuses but they are REALLY GOOD.

i was looking for BOTTLED LEMONADE last weekend and all they had was this organic shit, no COUNTRY TIME. my beer+lemonade cocktails came out GROSS.

everything else besides CARROT JUICE seems reasonable to me, but fuck you guys ben is a doctor and fucking knows what he wants

Oh my god that picture of the lima beans just made me do an incredulous *LOL*. That's not what I was expecting at all! I pictured some cheap cloudy plastic bag full of ordinary looking dried lima beans. Hell, those things don't even LOOK like lima beans. But hey, if they're your thing, well, you go right ahead!

I just totally expected these to be things you had to soak in water - do you have to soak them in water a long time? I'm really confused by that picture.

don't knock little dried fetuses 'til you try 'em

i would never have thought about little dried fetuses at all. Ever.

Hahahahahah

I just totally expected these to be things you had to soak in water - do you have to soak them in water a long time? I'm really confused by that picture.

No, I think they're cooked & deep-fried before they're dried. They're edible right out the bag.

do you guys not go to trader joe's? clearly anything that has been chili-liminated is going to be good...

i am, however, alarmed by the presence of a knife in that photo.

me too! maybe he is just using it to slice limes for that yummy margarita?

i always slice limes next to my laptop...

Knife was for slicing limes for the drink; lappy was there to play music while fixing dinner.

i was looking for BOTTLED LEMONADE last weekend and all they had was this organic shit, no COUNTRY TIME. my beer+lemonade cocktails came out GROSS.

-- gr8080, Saturday, June 21, 2008 9:54 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

A shandy is no cocktail

I can't easily picture how combining lemonade and beer would be anything but gross.

never had a margarveza

that's lime...

but yeah, citrus. the margaveza is surprisingly intersting.

I think we have a USUK confusion.

Lemonade UK - fizzy anything from clear to cloudy slightly lemony sugar water
Lemonade US - Flat cloudy very very sweet sugar water

However better than the lemonade shandy is a ginger beer and bitter shandy.

Oh man I really really really want to try some of those lima beans! HALP WHERE DO I FIND IN/AROUD DC?

Dude was looking for Country Time, which is indeed flat cloudy very very sweet sugar water with some artificial lemon flavor.

Unless Country Time is different in the 'K as well.

I agree about the chili lima thing, btw. Wasabi peas rule, chili pumpkin seeds rule, everything about this says rule.

No countrytime here, thank fuck.

not all American lemonade is sugary. We make it super super tart.

This is true, I got a good one there last time I was over, I still found it sweeter than I would like.

I wish I could give advice on how to get those delicious lima beans, but the last time I tried to find a way to order them online, I had zero luck. All I can say is that you see them at random stores in Cali where they sell Mexican-style snacks. If you can find a place that sells tamarind snacks (there's a delicious chili-lime-tamarind toothpaste-consistency snack that comes in a push-tube that'd probably gross peeps out even more so I won't say anything about it here), there's at least a chance they'll have these.

http://www.ipcosnuff.com/tube.jpg

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Oh come on dude, Indian/Pakistani English product brochures are all like this. My fave is from this product:

http://www.kohinoorbd.com/images/cos_snow.jpg

three days home and I'm already craving odwalla lemonade. that stuff is awesome

At college there was always a supply of lemons, ice, sugar and water 'on the side' so I made much lemonade on the cheap instead of buying Sprite or whatever.

Oh come on dude, Indian/Pakistani English product brochures are all like this.

Yeah, but they are not all describing the merits of tobacco toothpaste.

For those who didn't quite get the connexion betwixt the toothpaste pic and the post above it, this is what I was talking about (generally speaking):

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/8690/sc0081bed6.jpg

It's a salty squeeze-candy with the consistency of toothpaste. It's delicious and entirely unlike any "anglo" candy.

I have not had this particular ducky brand of tamarind squeeze-candy, but I'd imagine it's similar to all the others.