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Perfect! Thanks for thinking of that one. Four hours at a pumpkin patch has turned my brain to mush. The coffee metaphor is front and center for me because 99% of the coffee I've had in my life is supermarket or sub-supermarket and I'm sick of it and I am learning about coffee and ways to upgrade inexpensively. And of the handful of times I've had sushi, most have been from the supermarket so I could easily imagine the parallel.

How about supermarket coffee vs. really good, fresh coffee?

In Staten Island the carts are free-range at most of the major supermarkets. They have those stick-a-quarter-in thingies that are obviously not going to stop a thief. At Western Beef and in one Waldbaums in a poorer area (near where I live) the carts are kept corralled behind barricades. If I remember correctly some of the other supermarkets, Pathmark in particular kept the carts barricaded years ago, before the quarter things. They still have partial barricades at one or two so it's likely they were kept enclosed once.

It belongs in the funny name list, for sure.

I have a love-hate relationship with google. Carttronics This is another retrofitted system, unlike the one I saw at Lowes.

They had something like that at the Lowes that just opened near me. I thought that it was just a scare tactic, like slapping an "ALARM" sticker on a house without an alarm. One of the (rear?) wheels had what looked like an external brake but I figured anyone who wanted to could tear it off with a snipper or just replace it with a new caster, so if it was for real I imagined it had to have more symbolic than practical value.

What I wanna know is, if I light a Pringles can on fire, will it fly up into the air like a giant Amaretti di Saronno wrapper?

I bet you were using the NEW! IMPROVED! PATENTED! NEAT-O Pringles extraction and consumption tool!

Surely you jest!

Kazuhiro Okochi, the sushi chef interviewed in that article also "helped design the Whole Foods line of packaged sushi" according to this article.

I have filed my application at the patent office for the NEAT-O Pringles extraction and consumption tool.

I once bought sushi in a Food Emporium in Manhattan. The brochure for the sushi franchisee said something like "No raw food" (or maybe had an icon with the word "raw" in a circle with a slash through it.) The salmon or tuna I had sure did look and taste raw so I've always wondered what the deal was.

Dr. Phil (pop psychologist and Oprah's psyche guru) is the new weight-loss expert (and is profiting by plastering his face and name on books, diet plans and diet elixers and other products.) Bog Greene and Dr. Phil should go mano a mano in the boxing ring and may the best lifestyle win: McDonalds vs. Diet-scheme!

To see how the two brands "stack up" and how P&G is fighting back in the battle of the pre-formed, stack potato crisp click here.

Another sign of the insidious and subversive communist conspiracy creeping its way into American culture. It is true that the Pringles cans look.....cheesy.....by contemporary packaging standards.

Two interesting articles in this week's Business Week are tangentially related to the latter part of this topic, and each has some reference to food. No mention of the battle for Pathmark that FG commented on, one would think that all of a sudden Pathmark decided to jump on the bandwagon (I remember the articles over the past years about the conflict.) An online extra to this article The flip side is bringing the inner city to the mainstream:

De facto regressive taxes. They're all over the place. Not only do people who don't need breaks often get breaks, and vice versa; but if you're income is low enough the cost of basic essential services such as transportation loom huge as a percentage of total resources available. There are times when I've debated whether or not I should spend the money for a subway or bus when I had already walked for miles, was exhausted, and had miles more to go. (I usually chose to walk.)

From the reviews I've read this book seems to support your comments. I believe that one review inferred that true believers in capitalism have more to fear from self-proclaimed "capitalists" than from liberals, socialists, communists or any other popular scapegoats. Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists

I'm a low-income household with internet access who finds this thread vaguely amusing, enlightening, and useful (in that order.) Of course I'm not the stereotypical low-income household (whatever that may be) because I come from a middle-class background and I have middle class sensibilities and exposure to media and knowledge; and also because of extenuating circumstances I'm insulated from many of the tenuous and capricious aspects of living that the poorest are often subject to. But "there but for the grace of god go I" so I'm very aware and observant of the gross economic and social inequities in our society.

OK, now that just sounds dirty. A proper gentleman always shares his pickle with a fair maiden. It's ensconced in the chivalry code of honor.

If I don't watch TV how will I know what to eat and where to get it? Everything I need to know I learned from watching commercials.

Jersey Fresh has nine matches for herbs Jerrsey Fresh search feature New Jersey Farm Bureau has 17 listings for "Mixed Herbs" New Jersey Produce Directory - Mixed Herbs

Not quite Central NJ but: Well-Sweep Herb Farm 205 Mount Bethel Road Port Murray, New Jersey 07865 (908)852-5390 They also have culinary lavender flowers and lavender essential oil Well-Sweep Herb Farm PDF Catalog Ariel Herbs 1525 Silverton Road Toms River, NJ 08755 732-240-3652 Ariel Herbs Gunning River Herbs 163 Gunning River Road Barnegat, N.J. 08005 Phone 609-698-1921 They're also selling lavender soap online.

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bacon makes me look sexy that's why I eat bacon