"Food Deserts? I thought you said Food Desserts."
Posted on 05/02/2013 6:47:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Michelle usually has food desserts.
Counting supermarkets in urban areas is not and never will be science, junk science or otherwise.
Just as polling is not science. Social ‘science’ is not science.
BMI is a very misleading measure in the first place.
If you’re in an area which cannot adequately sustain life (ie.: yours), MOVE.
Yes, it may be hard (much less so than whiners contend), but the alternative is prolonged suffering and death. Demanding others bring you good food is insane: they’re not for a reason, take the hint already and MOVE.
Wonder what the diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and obesity rates in these food desert areas happen to be.........
“No maam. We don’t carry pig intestines. Sorry, we don’t carry mullet either. “.
Sorry, Southern joke. Every time we got a new Yankee employee, they would ask about both.
It absolutely offends me that this tub of lard would dare to criticize other people.
Those areas are food deserts due to shoppers who create their own personal 100% off sales.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNoJ2BzSRU
The USDA had for awhile an inter-active map that showed where the “food deserts” were. I lived in one yet there was a grocery store less than a mile away. They are basing their claims that an area is a food desert on household incomes rather than access to food so they can divvy up the loot to the poor. It’s just another commie wealth transfer.
BTW, we do have a Aldi store about 1.15 miles from my house. I have absolutely no use for that store
Look for this particular Aldis (and any nearby retailers) to quickly go out of business due to theft.
I go to Aldi’s occasionally. At least with my local store, you can do very well there, but can’t plan a weekly grocery trip around them because you never know what you’re going to get. Merch is different every time.
"Food Deserts? I thought you said Food Desserts."
Where are the First Wookie's references?
Michelle---HA, HA - Loser!
I’ve recently been self-diagnosed with a serious metabolic disorder that has put me on a severely restricted diet - I can only eat food.
And I’ve been surprised at how much junk in the local grocery stores isn’t actually food. The shelves are full of edible food-like substances.
But I live in the inner city, and even in the gritty neighborhood grocery store I can find fresh meat, dairy, eggs, produce, and whole grains. That most of what most people eat is processed crap isn’t because whole foods aren’t available. It’s because eating crap is cheap and convenient.
If you’re eating whole foods, you have three choices. Either you pay a lot more, or you work a lot more, or you plan a lot more.
Me, I plan. Half-an-hour’s work, and 10 hours of waiting on my six-quart slow-cooker, and I have a dozen individual serving freezer containers of pot roast.
But that works for me because 1, my schedule is stable, and 2, I have freezer space. It’s hard to prepare meals a week in advance, when you don’t know whose couch you’re going to be sleeping on, tomorrow.
Where I live, federal grant money is being used to pay gas stations to carry fruit.
No Kidding.
I don’t know why they would choose Aldi. Personally I prefer Save-a-lot for cheap staples.
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