On Sep 5, 2:05*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:15:20 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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> >>"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> >>> Janet Bostwick wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:20:40 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
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> >>>>> Here I thought my initial thought was crazy: *bury them in sand and
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> >>>>> them in a cool place. *Your idea may be better though. Less grit.
> >>>> I believe that is the suggested way to over-winter carrots.
> >>>> Janet US
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> >>> I need to try these methods. *I suppose the sterilized sand will be hard
> >>> to find now (as vs. in the spring when the kiddies' sand boxes are being
> >>> set up.)
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> >>I was most unhappy tonight. *We bought 4 sweet potatoes at Albertsons last
> >>night. *They all looked very good. *I set them on top of a box of Taco
> >>Salad
> >>Shells that was sitting on top of my bread box. *They were in my
> >>possession
> >>for less than 24 hours. *And one was totally bad inside. *Not rotten like
> >>mush but like...all dried out and there were holes throughout it. *Clearly
> >>we need to do more research because we must not know what a good sweet
> >>potato looks like.
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> >>I must also be more careful with the produce at Winco. *We bought 2
> >>cucumbers on Friday and they were totally rotten on Monday. *Their produce
> >>is super cheap. *But... *I think it is also close to going bad. *Which
> >>perhaps is why it is so cheap.
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> > Don't buy your produce from the un-refrigerated area, buy it only from
> > the cooled produce. *Feel the cucumber before you buy it. *It should
> > not give to the touch at all. The color should be dark green -- yes, I
> > know cucumbers are dark green. *But if you look at a bunch of them,
> > you will see that the color of some of them is not as rich or pure.
> > They are older or grown too long in the field. *Do no choose the
> > largest cucumber in the bin. *If the cucumber is totally, totally
> > smooth, with absolutely no bumpiness anywhere, looking like it may
> > have stretched its skin, it was grown too long in the field.
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> It was refrigerated but I had my daughter pick them. *That perhaps was my
> mistake.
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> > Julie, I really hate the way you condemn an entire business or food
> > type or whatever just because you had a bad (in your view) experience.
> > Everyone who shops needs to know how to make the best selection of
> > goods. *You simply do not know how to do this. * *Do you really think
> > that Winco orders produce from the supplier saying "now, be sure to
> > give us the stuff that is just about to go bad?" *Or that there is a
> > supplier that specializes in food just about to go bad? *Some day
> > someone is going to sue you for making false statements about them.
> > Janet US
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> Yes, I do think they do this and that is probably why they can keep their
> prices so cheap. *The reason I think they do this is because on the produce
> that has an expiration date on it, it is always either that day or a day or
> two later. *Granted we do usually go there on Friday but we have gone on
> other days and it is always the same. *There's a chain of cheapo grocery
> stores in PA (or at least they used to be there) that did the same. *They
> bought stuff that was close to expiring at a cheaper price so they could
> sell it for cheaper. *It was fine when I needed to cook something that day.
> I often shopped there when I needed a large amount of food.
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> They can not sue me for saying what I think. *I have no proof of this of
> course. *It's just what I think. *And that's not the case for a lawsuit. *I
> am not the only one who has said bad things on this NG about that
> supermarket. *In fact I was made fun of for shopping there. *They clearly
> are targeting a low income market. *If you had ever been there, you would
> know. *I will buy some things there. *Not others.

You get what you pay for, especially there. Ever go to Food 4 Less?