Posted on 03/11/2016 7:46:21 AM PST by C19fan
Come for the $8 quinoa, stay for the $15 salad.
The weirdest, most ridiculous things overheard at your favorite organic, gluten-free, free trade, not-at-all over-the-top grocery store. Courtesy of your new favorite Facebook page, Overheard at Wholefoods.
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I can’t tolerate MSG, and one thing I know, when I go into WF, if I buy hot food or whatever, it won’t have a lot of toxic junk in there that will make me sick. I like WF. Just wish they would carry coke products. It’s not the hippies that are annoying btw, it’s the freaking rolex yuppies.
I have one right in the town I live in. Been there once. Nice store, quality goods, just too much money across the board. Also have a Trader Joe’s in town, right up the street, much better prices. I use them here & there, but I do almost all of my shopping at Aldi.
It was Wild Oats here
FTC rejected the Whole Foods merger
They had to redivide
We’re Whole Foods now
I’m not a fan of the trendy and superficial lifestyle.
^^^^^ This
We go to the fishmonger there when sardines are running in the fall - he calls when he gets them in fresh.
Otherwise there are a couple minor Japanese things she wants that we have to drive 2 1/2 hours for so sometimes if we’re out of stock we can pick them up there.
Shopping is all about tradeoffs between time, price, and convenience. My wife is willing to put in the extra time and “my” conveninence so as not to spend “her” money ;)
That’s fine. Our Food Lion closed here (after the scandal with the bleached fish) but a lot of people used to love it. We don’t have a Pg here, but Publix is about the same, and quite good.
I get other things at Whole Foods and they have always been very nice. As I say, it’s all about what you want to buy and what suits your needs. I cook a lot and need unusual supplies.
I think everybody pays for that now because it’s part of the Obamacare required policies.
My wife sometimes shops at Sprouts - I’m more Aldi, Walmart, and Fiesta Mart. She indicated that you need to watch for sales and seasonal items and you can get some good buys.
I’ve found that they seem to have good turnover on produce at Fiesta, and the Asian shoppers tend to be picky. Of course, most of it is from Mexico.
Is that for use on your gluten free haircut?
1 reason to step inside Whole Foods: The Cheese Department.
Same with me. Not a store I would regularly shop at when I lived in Baltimore, but a place I could count on for excellent fresh produce (both “conventional” and organic) and I loved their cheese (only store at the time where I could find real Norwegian Gjetos : ), ) and their bakery department. One time I was having some friends over for dinner and had decided to make authentic Spanish Paella. None of my local grocery stores had chorizo sausage or leeks that didn’t look like they had been picked a year ago or any real saffron (a must for good Paella) but I was able to find them at the Whole Foods. And while I was there I also bought some really excellent cherry stone clams for my Paella that were extremely fresh and worth the bit of the extra cost.
I am also a big fan of Wegman’s and wish there was one near me where I currently live in PA.
True story: I was getting ready to have some family over for dinner, and went to their (excellent) butcher counter looking for some veal chops. The butcher, and two customers turned, and looked at me aghast as if I had asked for fresh butchered puppy. “Sir, our store is cruelty free.” Spake the butcher. Last time I bothered with them.
Really? They list veal on their website. I once purchased at Whole Foods veal shanks to make Osso Bucco when none of my regular grocery stores had them.
Fraid not. Both those incidents happened exactly as I described. I can’t remember a time when I went to the WH on Santa Monica Bl that there wasn’t some leftwingloon mooching for signatures.
As opposed to that 6 month old bunnykins that lived in a cage the butcher chopped up and sold to the person behind you in line.
You should have had our daughter along. On a field trip to a butcher shop, she (about age 9 at the time) asked for some casings, aka intestines, and blew it into a balloon dog right there in front of everyone.
On many organic farms, the illegals sheite and pi$$ on you food in the field as they pick it.
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There exists an 8mm film of Asian tea pickers “pre rinsing” the harvest for your benefit. Working through high school and college by harvesting row and orchard crops I’ve seen similar services provided by imported workforce.......
Or is it a “gluten haircut”? I’ve never had one of those... I think they call it “manscaping” or something like that! ;-P
I’ve never been to one before. Those quotes were hilarious!
In truth, there are several million Americans who cannot eat the gluten found in wheat, rye, and barley without doing substantial damage to their health. Although Whole Foods carries some gluten free bread and pastry products, most of their baked goods are conventional and contain gluten.
Organic produce?? I always think of Night Soil. Not for me.
lol
We get all our vitamins there every year at 25% off. Otherwise, it’s like walking into a freak show
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