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wow dudes HOW DO I SHOT NEW JOB/LIFE/PERSONALITY?

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

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― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Start an emo band, everything else will fall into place.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

be like my coworker nando and just up and move to Argentina

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"nando"

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

YUPPIES put the "U" in "Urban" so suburbs is definitely where that fuckwad should go. And yeah I had totally planned to go to that meeting to DEMAND a NON-GHETTO grocery store and some RETAIL for the EMPTY STOREFRONTS.

Because EMPTY STOREFRONTS positively SUCK. I don't know what ASSHAT is thinking.

― quincie (quincie), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

depends on what they mean by "retail"

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

what is bad about that giant? ive never been inside. the giant at the tivoli is pretty sweet - why cant they just revamp slightly?

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

The Giant constantly is out of staple type items like half and half and their produce really sucks and they don't have stuff like mushrooms on a consistent basis and (okay this is pretty yuppie I guess) cilantro. They'll run out of milk a lot too.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Not that I mind walking up or down to either Whole Foods. Or getting in the car to go to SuperFresh over by AU. It just seems like, if you're going to have a grocery store, have a grocery store. There is plenty of space to expand in the abandoned storefront right next door, seems like a no brainer.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Any neighborhood in which Half-and-half was considered a "staple item" is probably not one I could afford to live in...?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

roffle

― a_p (a_p), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ypulse.com/images/rebelwith401k.jpg

― a_p (a_p), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I used to flavor my coffee with dirt and bird shit too but that got pretty old after awhile.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

We don't actually have a grocery in my neighborhood. There is a "Safeway" which is approximately 25ft x 35ft, but most of my exploring of that has been "emergency egg purchase" and "cigarettes" (which are in a completely wide open case way at the front of the store and the dudes are always like, "Oh yeah, just get your own, I'm pretty busy here" despite the fact that they CLEARLY AREN'T and are encouraging me to STEAL MOAR).

I did not notice an extensive half and half selection.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

What are bodegas like in NYC? Mushrooms? Vegetables? Booze? Half and half?

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHA I just re-read "I don't mind walking to EITHER Whole Foods" WHAT DO YOU WANT, HAND-DELIVERY OF YR CILANTRO AND HALF-AND-HALF??? we have that too! = www.peapod.com

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

the bodega across the street from my last apt consisted of weird beer selection (like a lot of 40s and Zima??? The 40s I understood, but the Zima not as much), bananas, Cuban staple items like ginormous bags of rice and dried beans, Medaglia del Oro, cigarettes, and lottery tickets.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

they sold eggs and candies and milk too.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The one at my apt BEFORE that sold shit like fuckin le petit ecoulier cookies??? That was ridiculous.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the nearest store to me is the woodner grocery. this is why i tend to do most of my grocery shopping at mr chen's.

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I could do Peapod. I just think it's totally okay and normal and not yuppie at all to expect better than a halfway decent grocery store which is what we have now.

xpost

Yes the Lame Giant has a whole AISLE of weird English cookies, jams, jellies, plantain chips and pineapple soda but sometimes runs out of, you know, any kind of milk besides Egg Nog.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah - there's no reason for that giant to have bad produce or no half and half

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

How does one make nog?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, if people can WALK to a Whole Foods and are still complaining? No sympathy here. :D

I went to the corner bodega last Sunday cos I had forgotten to get corn and the local grocery was already closed (at six, I think). I started fishing through the freezer chest (spinach, okra, broc, pigeon peas wtf? but no corn) and noticed bug specimens being uncovered by my rummaging: one dead, frozen cockroach and one dead, frozen centipede. I closed the cover and skedaddled.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, New York is great!

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa @ centipede

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

y'know laurel freezing will successfully eliminate the vast majority of bacterial foodborne pathogens

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

My problem with the grocery store is that it is there. It is a grocery store. In my neighborhood. If there was NOT a grocery store in my neighborhood, no problem. BUT since there IS a grocery store there in my neighborhood, I would like it to ACT like a grocery store.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I agree that shitty produce and running out of milk is uncalled for! You seriously should just do peapod though if you don't wanna have to go to Whole Foods for everything. THE MORE PEOPLE WHO BOYCOTT THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL STORES, THE MORE THEY WILL HAVE TO FIX IT OR CLOSE THEM OR SOMETHING. I think?? I totally agree with you, I think fixing up the grocery store to better serve the neighborhood is GOOD. The mysterious other "retail" portion of it was what I was questioning!!

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Does freezing eliminate pathogens, or just slow them down? Once foods are thawed they still spoil eventually...which suggests they still contain the seeds of their own destruction.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to Ally--Gotcha. I realize I'm being sort of a whiny bitch about this stuff. The retail will be scary, I'm sure. You have to take the good with the bad though--if having good produce close by means dealing with a Chiptole/whatever evil shit they put in there, oh well.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.garritpieper.com/deviantart/terror-cat.jpg

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.patandkat.com/pat/weblog/images/pirate-cat-thumb.jpg

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

it kills off many non-spore forming pathogens (with the notable exception of the fucking godawful Listeria monocytogenes), but unfreezing will once again expose the food to all sorts of potentially problematic issues, some of which are internal and some of which are due to the inherently permeable nature of packaging that allows for gas exchange and rotting/spoiling reactions

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

they should put another 2 amy's in there

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

They should put a bomb in there, to blow your ASS off, what do you think of that

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

And then a victim of gentrification should come up and hand your ASS to you on a SHINY DISH

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

umm no i want more 2 amy's

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

You people all just want to live in TYSON'S CORNER.
You don't understand that poorly-stocked bodegas that smell funny inside and boarded-up former hardware stores are WHAT THE CITY IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT.

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss being surrounded by orange car boots 1/5th of every week!!!

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

worst troll ever

― BOM. TOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

dude i just love pizza so much

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

mr. chens: a place with no pizza at all!

reconcile yrslef

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha ha I am in hysterics over Tombot/69's joeks.

they should put another 2 amy's in there
-- 69 (plsmit...), December 7th, 2006.

They should put a bomb in there, to blow your ASS off, what do you think of that
-- TOM. BOT. (tombo...), December 7th, 2006.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

In fairness, it's not like Cleveland Park is some hold out of cheap housing and putting in a Best Buy is going to destroy livelihoods left and right, I just always find it pretty pathetic when cities actually spend money on bringing in box retail instead of spending that money on helping small business owners in their own city prosper. Generally these days, a lot of property owners go out of their way to push out smaller retailers and businesses to bring in the big boxes and I don't like it that cities are just A-OK with this.

Another 2 Amy's would be I guess OK by my standards but that is too many 2 Amy's within one (1) block of each other.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

we've become disenchanted with 2 Amy's.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Though seriously bringing in a Target and a Trader Joe's and etc improves DC by about 17,000x due to the fact that DC has NOTHING IN IT AT ALL WHATSOEVER AND I AM SICK OF HAVING TO GO TO VA AND MD FOR SHIT ALL THE TIME.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean
obv i was kidding about ANOTHER 2 AMYS IN THAT BLOCK
obv i love non-pizza too
but dude that shit is tasty

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

69 OTM^^^^^^^^^ PIZZA IS TASTY

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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