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AOC Shares Story of How Hard It Was for Her to Buy Fresh Basil, ‘Very Illustrative’ of Racism
MenRec ^ | 10/15/20 | Staff

Posted on 10/15/2020 6:34:34 PM PDT by rustyweiss74

AOC: "I looked at this recipe and I needed basil, and I was going home and I get off the subway station and I go into the grocery store and there’s no basil, no fresh basil in the grocery store. So then I walked to another grocery store two blocks down, no fresh basil. I was very stubborn about making this recipe that evening, and I must’ve been — I must’ve walked around for an hour in our neighborhoods, visiting four or five grocery stores, and there was no basil, no fresh basil in any of them. And it just goes to show, it’s very — it’s very illustrative of the difficulties that we have in our communities in accessing fresh produce."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: aoc; aocstupid; firstworldproblem; thehorror; usefulidiot
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To: KarlInOhio
Did she also have problems finding free-range white asparagus?

White asparagus? Racist!

101 posted on 10/15/2020 8:23:15 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Retrofitted

I wouldn’t waste my holy basil on her. Or even sweet basil. Lol I do love the smells of fresh herbs.

I wonder what she was cooking.


102 posted on 10/15/2020 8:28:06 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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BS. Where she’s from, she could easily get a goat’s head with an apple and extra fresh basil.


103 posted on 10/15/2020 8:30:22 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: rustyweiss74

The “Everyone gets a ribbon” generation in a nutshell.


104 posted on 10/15/2020 8:31:48 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: Jamestown1630

It’s even cheaper and easier to just invent problems, and complain about them and tie them to ‘racism’, in order to get attention.

I cannot believe the level to which our national discourse has fallen.
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The phrase “dumbing down” comes to mind. Ha.


105 posted on 10/15/2020 8:32:02 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: rustyweiss74

Did she think these lockdowns wouldn’t cause shortages of anything and everything.

People are starving in developing countries due to these lockdowns and she’s worried about fresh basil?

Wait until she implements her new green deal...that’s when the real shortages will begin.


106 posted on 10/15/2020 8:32:04 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: petitfour

Her goose?


107 posted on 10/15/2020 8:32:08 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Hypo2

GEEZE Louise why in the hell doesn’t she just buy a basil plant and let it grow in her kitchen she is such a MORON!!


108 posted on 10/15/2020 8:34:16 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Sacajaweau

According to her story, she has five grocery stores in her neighborhood. Apparently not an Italian part of town.


109 posted on 10/15/2020 8:35:36 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

She apparently grew up rather ‘privileged’.

All of this pretending about being poor and ignorant is a put-on (well, maybe not the ignorant part...)


110 posted on 10/15/2020 8:36:19 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Vermont Lt

It’s not that easy. You need to plug in the grow light, add water.....the list is endless. Green privilege.


111 posted on 10/15/2020 8:39:22 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: rustyweiss74

She walked around for an hour? AOC doesn’t have a cellphone?


112 posted on 10/15/2020 8:49:48 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's base: Why doesn't Biden's Tour have rallies in black communities?)
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To: rustyweiss74

Everyone knows black people hate basil.


113 posted on 10/15/2020 8:51:30 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Didn’t she also have a garden plot this summer? Promoting organic, grow your own?

Hell, why not start a vertical garden in the condo? She could even recycle the water, after she waters the crop...heat it up on her solar powered range and use it for her daily bath.

Showering is evil...

And how about personal grooming? Looks like she does a lot of grooming.

I doubt that is environmentally friendly. She should stop shaving...even her lip.

And what about wardrobe? A definite climate change factor.

Walk to work naked to save the earth. She’s a New Yorker...what’s the worst that could happen?

A couple frost bitten nipples and no police to save you from the guy who is “just trying to keep you warm with body heat”


114 posted on 10/15/2020 9:05:05 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: rustyweiss74

45 million unemployed don’t give a sh!t about basil.


115 posted on 10/15/2020 9:07:06 PM PDT by AnxiouslyWaiting
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To: Jamestown1630

Perhaps but I don’t use Basil....prefer Parsley.


116 posted on 10/15/2020 10:41:16 PM PDT by caww (...This constant pretending the president is a problem is pure evil!...)
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To: rustyweiss74

Vote for AOC, and there will be a basil in every pot. And that’s all that will be in it.


117 posted on 10/15/2020 10:48:58 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: rustyweiss74

Geeze, I’ve been to every store in our area, and can’t find scrapple or hog jowls; must be Yankee prejudice!

I thought she studied economics, so would understand basic supply & demand: no demand, so no supply.


118 posted on 10/15/2020 11:03:04 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: PROCON; Rebelbase; Gamecock; SaveFerris

Then she saw a cauliflower and screamed colonialism!


119 posted on 10/16/2020 12:04:11 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: cornfedcowboy
I lived in Virginia for a year and was looking for Italian Sausage to make sauce....in my dreams!!

But lotsa great fish. Loved it.

120 posted on 10/16/2020 4:51:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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