Posted on 04/07/2021 7:40:19 AM PDT by mylife
It was the best of sale sections, it was the worst of sale sections. If you need a vat of baked beans or an avocado scented candle, you're in luck.
Most discount chains and big box stores have their respective stans; we all know about the Target enthusiasts who call it “tar-zhay” and the Kirkland heads who are on top of all of the fresh Costco drops. But you know what chain we should talk about more? Cost Plus World Market.
Tucked away at the far end of your local mall, overflowing with wicker baskets and imported candy, CPWM is a bustling destination for rug-seeking college students and eccentric tchotchke aunties alike, and wandering its linoleum-floored halls is like perusing an international bazaar—if that bazaar had fluorescent overhead lighting and sold tinned meats of mysterious origin alongside mass-produced Persian rugs. Its offerings are a truly confounding intersection of the highly practical with the bafflingly impractical; for every mid-century coffee table, there is an upsetting banana wine bottle stopper. (There are, of course, some problematically colonialist elements about the store concept, but when it comes down to it, it is above all just a discount store with a mix of woven raffia wall decor, cat anus magnets, and Calamansi-Ade.)
Cost Plus World Market has actually been around since the 50s, when a “San Francisco businessman” started the brand as an import business specializing in wicker. “Today we continue to search the world for unique artisan goods and handicrafts, international food favorites and design inspiration for our furniture and home décor,” reads the company bio. The chain is closing 200 stores over the next two years, which is a bummer because it’s both a fantastic place to buy novelty snacks and indisputably one of the best places to shop while stoned.
(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...
The generally cursed foods are the ones you saw available on the shelves after hurricane and Wuhan virus related panic buying.
General summary: in the middle of a pandemic and fear of starving, people still wouldn’t buy most vegan crap.
General summary: in the middle of a pandemic and fear of starving, people still wouldn’t buy most vegan crap.
LOL!!!!
I’ve now seen this during 2 different lockdown panic-buying and in Snowmageddon 2021, all within 14 months.
buy it cheap, stack it deep...
See #36.
Utz’s potato anythings are the best.
The. Best.
We went there frequently in the 90’s. Last time I went, about a year ago, to find a small trash can for our office the selection stunk and they didn’t even have good coffee available.
Been watching the PBS on Hemingway, even they can’t cover him being a major prick.
saw some of it too
More of a Robert Ruark guy myself.
And they did sell inexpensive and unusual furniture and decor but they also sold food and wines. For a long time it was the only place were I could find “Dreamy Clouds” sake.
Ruark, kipling, Patrick f mcmanus..
I like double zout licorice, it’s an acquired taste. I acquired it from growing up in Holland. It’s especially good for coughs but also good anytime if you have a taste for it. The ammonium chloride component is negligible at best.
not a licorice fan, anise? yeah OK but licorice is rather harsh
Start off easy, Cat licorice, its candy, then step it up.
Absolutely LOVE that stuff. The warning about its laxative effects is true, though. 3 or 4 pieces is PLENTY! You’ll never be plugged up again eating it regularly.
not a licorice fan, plenty loose already...
Scandinavians deny being a socialist country...
gotta love them $20 beers
i think they drink reindeer piis to circumvent the tax on beer..
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