Posted on 06/16/2006 12:26:34 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
I guess that I should stop driving here in South Georgia, since I kill many bugs with my car when I drive?
Oh, good grief-here the PETA loonies go with the fishy feelings again. I've only been to the Whole Foods in SA once, and at those prices, I couldn't afford to shop there for lobster or anything else even if it was not nearly 40 miles away from where I live.
We used to go crabbing at the coast in the summers when my daughter was a child. When she was little, she would get upset when she saw and heard the crabs scrabbling around in the infamous pot, and not want to eat them. So my husband and I devised a method whereby we carried them home in ice chests full of icy, cold water (makes them go to sleep), put them on a steam rack in the pot over the water, sprinkled with crab boil powder, covered the pot, and voila-they don't wake up and scrabble around. I don't know if it is any more humane than dropping them into boiling water, but the child was not upset any more and would eat the crabs-and I like the way steamed tastes better than boiled, too. But I suppose that the Whole Food idiots would think that anesthetizing the crabs or lobsters with cold water and ice before cooking them alive was a form of cruelty as well...
The only use for Whole Foods is when you need something you *know* a commie-lib store would have - like aromatherapy candles or tofu.
Not too long ago I stopped to help a tortoise cross a highway. He wanted to get to the green, green grass on the other side. I don't know "Why did the chicken cross the road?" I might speculate that it was for similar selfish reasons.
Thanks for the tip-I'll use vodka-soaked paper towels in lieu of icy water next time I cook live crabs, crayfish or lobsters.
I live in Massachusetts, and anyone who would pay Whole Food's prices on lobster has to be nuts. They are consistently at $13.00/ lb, even when every other market in driving distance is charging $8 or $9.
I'm guessing live lobsters are a loser for them, and this is a nice touchy feely way of dropping them from the seafood category.
I buy a lot at Whole Foods, but I would never buy one of their live lobsters. What am I, a schmuck on wheels?
And that's really all they are (cousins to each other). I came up with that when a new girlfriend was worried about the dropped alive thing and of course I was eager to show my sensitive side.
I'm not really against helping the turtle out of the road, what I sense is that many people have become convinced it is way more important than a lot of other things.
InHUMANe. It's a wonderful word. Didn't you know that lobster and shrimp are people too?
organic cat litter
Liberalism is a religion.
melted butter
Wonderful Seinfeld episode about poaching lobster.
I'm continually surprised Whole Fruits and Nuts even sells meat.
In Chicago we call it Whole Paycheck.
"aromatherapy candles or tofu."
I buy both of those items at the nearest HEB Supermarket 20 miles away-and they're a damn sight cheaper than Whole Foods...
LOL. I went in there once at the recommendation of a liberal girlfriend. I thought I was transported to some California nutville.
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