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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:51:05 GMT, Julia Altshuler
> wrote: > > I can't speak for the whole of humanity, but I like it. I like being > able to check the kernels in the store. In every crop, there are bound > to be some ears that are bug eaten or don't have the kernels fully grown > in. Rather than get them home and be disappointed there, why not know > what I'm buying before I buy it? You want to know what they do with your cast off? Break off the worm eaten part and sell it anyway. I like the "test" of feeling the cob to find out if it's fully developed w/o shucking it first. > I hardly think it's rude to want to > know the quality of the produce. With the garbage can right there, I > can accomplish the task of shucking in only a few minutes and feel neat > and clean about it. The people I see shucking corn into the bin usually live in apartments and clearly want to generate as little garbage as possible at home. I certainly remember the not so good days of backed up garbage shutes and that was over 30 years ago. > Perhaps there is a way to judge an ear without > shucking it, but since shucking doesn't destroy it either way, I can't > see where doing so is rude. As for this being a new trend, I can't > remember a time when supermarkets DIDN'T place the can right there for > the customer's convenience. > If so, you're just a "baby" (which is an observation, not a denegration). > > There are stores that prepackage everything. I try not to shop at > those. Agree! sf Practice safe eating - always use condiments |
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:51:05 GMT, Julia Altshuler
> wrote: > > I can't speak for the whole of humanity, but I like it. I like being > able to check the kernels in the store. In every crop, there are bound > to be some ears that are bug eaten or don't have the kernels fully grown > in. Rather than get them home and be disappointed there, why not know > what I'm buying before I buy it? You want to know what they do with your cast off? Break off the worm eaten part and sell it anyway. I like the "test" of feeling the cob to find out if it's fully developed w/o shucking it first. > I hardly think it's rude to want to > know the quality of the produce. With the garbage can right there, I > can accomplish the task of shucking in only a few minutes and feel neat > and clean about it. The people I see shucking corn into the bin usually live in apartments and clearly want to generate as little garbage as possible at home. I certainly remember the not so good days of backed up garbage shutes and that was over 30 years ago. > Perhaps there is a way to judge an ear without > shucking it, but since shucking doesn't destroy it either way, I can't > see where doing so is rude. As for this being a new trend, I can't > remember a time when supermarkets DIDN'T place the can right there for > the customer's convenience. > If so, you're just a "baby" (which is an observation, not a denegration). > > There are stores that prepackage everything. I try not to shop at > those. Agree! sf Practice safe eating - always use condiments |
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"Tank" > wrote in message >...
> This year, I have noticed a number of grocery > stores placing trash cans next to their sweet > corn displays. This is for those people who > feel it necessary to strip their corn there in > the store. Are they placed there because the > stores are knuckling under to rude people who > peel back the ears to check them? What happened > to being able to judge an ear without destroying > it? What happened to simply taking the luck of > the draw with your produce, as the human race > has for thousands of years? > > Am I the only person who dislikes this trend? I hate it - it is a freaking mess and it spreads mold spores all over everything (smut - THE worst!). One does not have to shuck the corn completely to see if it's a good ear - you merely have to pull back the top of the husk. Another trend I absolutely hate are the people who think it is their right to break the sweet potatoes and yams to see how fresh they are. The store ends up with a million ends and broken whole pieces, which IMO aren't fit to buy. It's just plain rude. I had never seen anyone do this until we moved to San Jose, CA. I was horrified. -L. |
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"Tank" > wrote in message >...
> This year, I have noticed a number of grocery > stores placing trash cans next to their sweet > corn displays. This is for those people who > feel it necessary to strip their corn there in > the store. Are they placed there because the > stores are knuckling under to rude people who > peel back the ears to check them? What happened > to being able to judge an ear without destroying > it? What happened to simply taking the luck of > the draw with your produce, as the human race > has for thousands of years? > > Am I the only person who dislikes this trend? I hate it - it is a freaking mess and it spreads mold spores all over everything (smut - THE worst!). One does not have to shuck the corn completely to see if it's a good ear - you merely have to pull back the top of the husk. Another trend I absolutely hate are the people who think it is their right to break the sweet potatoes and yams to see how fresh they are. The store ends up with a million ends and broken whole pieces, which IMO aren't fit to buy. It's just plain rude. I had never seen anyone do this until we moved to San Jose, CA. I was horrified. -L. |
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notbob > wrote in message news:<DSvWc.220873$eM2.37321@attbi_s51>...
> Dave Smith wrote: > > > > refuse to buy it like that, and many others must have done the same > > because they gave up on that trick. > > Nope, there are still plenty of vendors who still do that damn window thing. > In fact Bar S still does the window and to make it worse they cover the > window with pre-cut flaps. In order to view the bacon one has to tear the > flaps (there's two) on at least one side and pull the flaps back or tear > off completely. > > Now, I buy bacon based on price. With bacon running around $6 lb, I won't > buy unless it's on sale in the $3-4 range. So, when Bar S has a sale on > bacon, like they did last week, I have no qualms whatsoever about going > through half a dozen or more packages, ripping flaps like crazy till I find > a good lb of bacon. Sure, I leave a trail of violated and strewn bacon > packages but that's just too damn bad. If they want the packages to stay > pristine, they'll remove the removable flaps so I don't have to. I guess > they figure most folks, like those who will not pick and choose in produce, > are afraid to rip those flaps off. Sorry Charlie. I be rippin'! > > nb I'm surprised at how many people *don't* look at what they are buying - just throw the whatever into a bag and go. Sorry, but with the prices as high as they are right now, no way am I buing bruised and rotten produce, or inferior anything. Not to mention products that are past their due date... -L. |
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notbob > wrote in message news:<DSvWc.220873$eM2.37321@attbi_s51>...
> Dave Smith wrote: > > > > refuse to buy it like that, and many others must have done the same > > because they gave up on that trick. > > Nope, there are still plenty of vendors who still do that damn window thing. > In fact Bar S still does the window and to make it worse they cover the > window with pre-cut flaps. In order to view the bacon one has to tear the > flaps (there's two) on at least one side and pull the flaps back or tear > off completely. > > Now, I buy bacon based on price. With bacon running around $6 lb, I won't > buy unless it's on sale in the $3-4 range. So, when Bar S has a sale on > bacon, like they did last week, I have no qualms whatsoever about going > through half a dozen or more packages, ripping flaps like crazy till I find > a good lb of bacon. Sure, I leave a trail of violated and strewn bacon > packages but that's just too damn bad. If they want the packages to stay > pristine, they'll remove the removable flaps so I don't have to. I guess > they figure most folks, like those who will not pick and choose in produce, > are afraid to rip those flaps off. Sorry Charlie. I be rippin'! > > nb I'm surprised at how many people *don't* look at what they are buying - just throw the whatever into a bag and go. Sorry, but with the prices as high as they are right now, no way am I buing bruised and rotten produce, or inferior anything. Not to mention products that are past their due date... -L. |
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Wayne > wrote in message >...
> "pennyaline" > wrote in > : > > > "Katra" wrote: > >> Sorry, but strawberries are too expensive for me to buy moldy, mushy > >> or wrinkled strawberries. I do the same thing and I can't for the > >> life of me see a problem with it! > > > > I don't see a problem, either. I pick and sort through berries the > > same way I pick and sort peaches, pears, tomatoes... everything! I > > strip the husk back on corn, too -- not all the way back, just far > > enough to check out kernal maturity and get a handle on infestation. > > It'll clue you in on drought damage pretty quickly, as well. > > Sorting through a pile of loose fruit like peaches, pears, apples, > tomatoes, etc., is different than rooting through a pre-apportioned > container of berries. Likewise with all the idiots that pull all the > bunches of bananas apart to choose a few individual ones that they want. > I prefer buying a bunch, not a random selection. But what if you want only 3 bananas and all of the bunches are 6 or more? This is a problem when one is single or lives with non-banana eaters. > > I also strip back the tip end of ears of corn and handle fruit to > determine condition and ripeness, but I wouldn't think of assembling my > own container of berries from those already there. I look at them as > carefully as I can, and if I find them too suspicious, I just don't buy > them. A couple of bad ones at the bottom is not a life or death issue. > If you can't afford them, then you shouldn't buy them. That's sort of how I feel as well. While I wouldn't balk at replacing a couple bad ones on top, I figure with things like berries you take the good with the bad. Eggs, however, are another issue altogether. -L. |
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On 23 Aug 2004 21:29:20 GMT, (Agnes7777)
wrote: > >From: "Tank" > > > >Am I the only person who dislikes this trend? > > > >-- > >Tank > > Nope. > > I've always seen folks pull back husks to check quality, but this was the first > year I ever saw folks actually shucking their corn at the grocery store. There > was no trash can. We had to wait to reach the corn bin because the pair > (father and daughter) stood directly in front of it and took about 10 minutes > to shuck 2 dozen ears, It took 10 MINUTES for two people to shuck 24 ears of corn??? Did they have one arm each? > tossing the shucks and silk and stems on the floor and > back into the pile of ears. That was crass. > > When we asked the produce dept. guy what was up with those folks shucking their > corn in the grocery store, he said it was a regional thing or something. > He should have been prepared for it in that case. > It would have been less annoying if there'd been a trash can around... > I'm surprised there wasn't one there. In the Old Days, corn had one side stipped so people could see kernal development down the entire length of the ear. In the interest of saving money on labor they don't do it anymore, so instead they provide bins for people to throw corn shucks. sf Practice safe eating - always use condiments |
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On 23 Aug 2004 21:29:20 GMT, (Agnes7777)
wrote: > >From: "Tank" > > > >Am I the only person who dislikes this trend? > > > >-- > >Tank > > Nope. > > I've always seen folks pull back husks to check quality, but this was the first > year I ever saw folks actually shucking their corn at the grocery store. There > was no trash can. We had to wait to reach the corn bin because the pair > (father and daughter) stood directly in front of it and took about 10 minutes > to shuck 2 dozen ears, It took 10 MINUTES for two people to shuck 24 ears of corn??? Did they have one arm each? > tossing the shucks and silk and stems on the floor and > back into the pile of ears. That was crass. > > When we asked the produce dept. guy what was up with those folks shucking their > corn in the grocery store, he said it was a regional thing or something. > He should have been prepared for it in that case. > It would have been less annoying if there'd been a trash can around... > I'm surprised there wasn't one there. In the Old Days, corn had one side stipped so people could see kernal development down the entire length of the ear. In the interest of saving money on labor they don't do it anymore, so instead they provide bins for people to throw corn shucks. sf Practice safe eating - always use condiments |
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On 23 Aug 2004 21:29:20 GMT, (Agnes7777)
wrote: > >From: "Tank" > > > >Am I the only person who dislikes this trend? > > > >-- > >Tank > > Nope. > > I've always seen folks pull back husks to check quality, but this was the first > year I ever saw folks actually shucking their corn at the grocery store. There > was no trash can. We had to wait to reach the corn bin because the pair > (father and daughter) stood directly in front of it and took about 10 minutes > to shuck 2 dozen ears, It took 10 MINUTES for two people to shuck 24 ears of corn??? Did they have one arm each? > tossing the shucks and silk and stems on the floor and > back into the pile of ears. That was crass. > > When we asked the produce dept. guy what was up with those folks shucking their > corn in the grocery store, he said it was a regional thing or something. > He should have been prepared for it in that case. > It would have been less annoying if there'd been a trash can around... > I'm surprised there wasn't one there. In the Old Days, corn had one side stipped so people could see kernal development down the entire length of the ear. In the interest of saving money on labor they don't do it anymore, so instead they provide bins for people to throw corn shucks. sf Practice safe eating - always use condiments |
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zxcvbob > wrote in message >...
> > I usually buy corn from trucks on the side of the road. When I'm > looking them over, the farmer usually shucks an ear a lot more than I > would to show me. I examine this a lot more than I do supermarket corn > to make sure it's really fresh, and I'm a little more careful picking > out the ears -- but I still don't peel back every ear. > > Bob Nothing better than fresh-from-the field sweet corn. I used to work for Pioneer Hi-Bred (which at the time was the #1 corn producing entity in the world). On Friday afternoons the guys from the field would bring in a whole truck load of ears they had just picked, and all the employyes could take home as much as they wanted. Our work group would then trek out to a local state park, fire up the grill unload our coolers and have a party - drink beer, fly kites and play fisbee and volleyball. We did this every Friday night through corn season. I have so many fond memories of that time in my life. The sweet corn, BTW, was DeKalb. -L. |
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zxcvbob > wrote in message >...
> > I usually buy corn from trucks on the side of the road. When I'm > looking them over, the farmer usually shucks an ear a lot more than I > would to show me. I examine this a lot more than I do supermarket corn > to make sure it's really fresh, and I'm a little more careful picking > out the ears -- but I still don't peel back every ear. > > Bob Nothing better than fresh-from-the field sweet corn. I used to work for Pioneer Hi-Bred (which at the time was the #1 corn producing entity in the world). On Friday afternoons the guys from the field would bring in a whole truck load of ears they had just picked, and all the employyes could take home as much as they wanted. Our work group would then trek out to a local state park, fire up the grill unload our coolers and have a party - drink beer, fly kites and play fisbee and volleyball. We did this every Friday night through corn season. I have so many fond memories of that time in my life. The sweet corn, BTW, was DeKalb. -L. |
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zxcvbob > wrote in message >...
> > I usually buy corn from trucks on the side of the road. When I'm > looking them over, the farmer usually shucks an ear a lot more than I > would to show me. I examine this a lot more than I do supermarket corn > to make sure it's really fresh, and I'm a little more careful picking > out the ears -- but I still don't peel back every ear. > > Bob Nothing better than fresh-from-the field sweet corn. I used to work for Pioneer Hi-Bred (which at the time was the #1 corn producing entity in the world). On Friday afternoons the guys from the field would bring in a whole truck load of ears they had just picked, and all the employyes could take home as much as they wanted. Our work group would then trek out to a local state park, fire up the grill unload our coolers and have a party - drink beer, fly kites and play fisbee and volleyball. We did this every Friday night through corn season. I have so many fond memories of that time in my life. The sweet corn, BTW, was DeKalb. -L. |
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"Coas****cher" > wrote in message
... > No no no! These are the same people who insist on eating a bunch of > grapes before buying, poking holes in melons, and sqeezing the tomatoes > till they are mush. We pay for this! If you can't figure out what is > best, ask for help. The next step, which I expect soon, will be all > produce packaged in plastic and not be able to be examined till we've > bought it and gotten it home. I don't want that do you? > I used to shop at a market where they prepackaged their tomatoes. When I would get home and open the package, invariably there would be one or two "unacceptable" tomatoes on the bottom. I would take them back to the store and they would give me a refund. After I did this for about six weeks in a row, they stopped prepackaging them. I like to think I am partially responsible for their decision. This reminds me of the outdoor produce markets overseas. When you selected your fruit or whatever, you placed it in a paper bag, always trying to be slightly over the weight you wanted. If you were underweight, like, say, slightly under a kilo, the merchant would throw in a bruised, rotten, or otherwise unacceptable piece of fruit, which he kept near the scales for that very purpose. (Of course, this was in the days before electronic scales.) -- barry in indy |
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"Coas****cher" > wrote in message
... > No no no! These are the same people who insist on eating a bunch of > grapes before buying, poking holes in melons, and sqeezing the tomatoes > till they are mush. We pay for this! If you can't figure out what is > best, ask for help. The next step, which I expect soon, will be all > produce packaged in plastic and not be able to be examined till we've > bought it and gotten it home. I don't want that do you? > I used to shop at a market where they prepackaged their tomatoes. When I would get home and open the package, invariably there would be one or two "unacceptable" tomatoes on the bottom. I would take them back to the store and they would give me a refund. After I did this for about six weeks in a row, they stopped prepackaging them. I like to think I am partially responsible for their decision. This reminds me of the outdoor produce markets overseas. When you selected your fruit or whatever, you placed it in a paper bag, always trying to be slightly over the weight you wanted. If you were underweight, like, say, slightly under a kilo, the merchant would throw in a bruised, rotten, or otherwise unacceptable piece of fruit, which he kept near the scales for that very purpose. (Of course, this was in the days before electronic scales.) -- barry in indy |
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"barry in indy" > wrote in message m... > "Coas****cher" > wrote in message > ... > > No no no! These are the same people who insist on eating a > bunch of > > grapes before buying, poking holes in melons, and sqeezing the > tomatoes > > till they are mush. We pay for this! If you can't figure out > what is > > best, ask for help. The next step, which I expect soon, will > be all > > produce packaged in plastic and not be able to be examined till > we've > > bought it and gotten it home. I don't want that do you? > > > I used to shop at a market where they prepackaged their tomatoes. > When I would get home and open the package, invariably there > would be one or two "unacceptable" tomatoes on the bottom. I > would take them back to the store and they would give me a > refund. After I did this for about six weeks in a row, they > stopped prepackaging them. I like to think I am partially > responsible for their decision. > > This reminds me of the outdoor produce markets overseas. When you > selected your fruit or whatever, you placed it in a paper bag, > always trying to be slightly over the weight you wanted. If you > were underweight, like, say, slightly under a kilo, the merchant > would throw in a bruised, rotten, or otherwise unacceptable piece > of fruit, which he kept near the scales for that very purpose. > (Of course, this was in the days before electronic scales.) i would take a rotton bruised tomato that was grown in an actual garden from a real seed over the genetically modified tasteless crap they sell as tomatoes in the US any day. randy |
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"barry in indy" > wrote in message m... > "Coas****cher" > wrote in message > ... > > No no no! These are the same people who insist on eating a > bunch of > > grapes before buying, poking holes in melons, and sqeezing the > tomatoes > > till they are mush. We pay for this! If you can't figure out > what is > > best, ask for help. The next step, which I expect soon, will > be all > > produce packaged in plastic and not be able to be examined till > we've > > bought it and gotten it home. I don't want that do you? > > > I used to shop at a market where they prepackaged their tomatoes. > When I would get home and open the package, invariably there > would be one or two "unacceptable" tomatoes on the bottom. I > would take them back to the store and they would give me a > refund. After I did this for about six weeks in a row, they > stopped prepackaging them. I like to think I am partially > responsible for their decision. > > This reminds me of the outdoor produce markets overseas. When you > selected your fruit or whatever, you placed it in a paper bag, > always trying to be slightly over the weight you wanted. If you > were underweight, like, say, slightly under a kilo, the merchant > would throw in a bruised, rotten, or otherwise unacceptable piece > of fruit, which he kept near the scales for that very purpose. > (Of course, this was in the days before electronic scales.) i would take a rotton bruised tomato that was grown in an actual garden from a real seed over the genetically modified tasteless crap they sell as tomatoes in the US any day. randy |
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Bubbablue wrote:
> > Maybe some people don't like paying $1.99/lb for husks and corn silk.... If that's the case, what do they do about the cobs? They weigh a lot more than the husks. We don't pay by the pound here. It is sold by the dozen. |
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Bubbablue wrote:
> > Maybe some people don't like paying $1.99/lb for husks and corn silk.... If that's the case, what do they do about the cobs? They weigh a lot more than the husks. We don't pay by the pound here. It is sold by the dozen. |
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"-L. :" wrote:
> > But what if you want only 3 bananas and all of the bunches are 6 or > more? This is a problem when one is single or lives with non-banana > eaters. I see nothing wrong with that, but I would object to people peeling the bananas to check the quality. |
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"-L. :" wrote:
> > But what if you want only 3 bananas and all of the bunches are 6 or > more? This is a problem when one is single or lives with non-banana > eaters. I see nothing wrong with that, but I would object to people peeling the bananas to check the quality. |
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On 8/23/2004, sf nobody wrote:
<snip> > I like the "test" of feeling the cob to find out if it's fully >developed w/o shucking it first. One thing that used to get my goat (I blame myself more than the store for this) was when I would pick ears of corn that appeared to be bigger in the husk (thinking that since it's sold so many ears for $1.00, then the larger the better, up to a point). Then I get it home, shuck it and find that the extra size comes from a 2 to 3 inch stem. I've thought in the past that peeling back the husk just a bit wasn't all that bad (I don't really do it myself be- cause I usually have pretty good luck with corn), but I have thought that peeling back the husk to the base of the ear to check out the stem might be thought as inappropriate, or even get me ar- rested. Actually, after I burned myself once or twice, I realized that it's pretty easy to check the stem through the husk. <snip 2> >The people I see shucking corn into the bin usually live in >apartments and clearly want to generate as little garbage as >possible at home. I not being argumentative - really - but how do you know where the people you see in the store live? |
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On 8/23/2004, sf nobody wrote:
<snip> > I like the "test" of feeling the cob to find out if it's fully >developed w/o shucking it first. One thing that used to get my goat (I blame myself more than the store for this) was when I would pick ears of corn that appeared to be bigger in the husk (thinking that since it's sold so many ears for $1.00, then the larger the better, up to a point). Then I get it home, shuck it and find that the extra size comes from a 2 to 3 inch stem. I've thought in the past that peeling back the husk just a bit wasn't all that bad (I don't really do it myself be- cause I usually have pretty good luck with corn), but I have thought that peeling back the husk to the base of the ear to check out the stem might be thought as inappropriate, or even get me ar- rested. Actually, after I burned myself once or twice, I realized that it's pretty easy to check the stem through the husk. <snip 2> >The people I see shucking corn into the bin usually live in >apartments and clearly want to generate as little garbage as >possible at home. I not being argumentative - really - but how do you know where the people you see in the store live? |
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"Steve Calvin" > wrote in message
... > notbob wrote: > <snip> > > > > Now, I buy bacon based on price. With bacon running around $6 lb, I won't > > buy unless it's on sale in the $3-4 range. So, when Bar S has a sale on > > bacon, like they did last week, I have no qualms whatsoever about going > > through half a dozen or more packages, ripping flaps like crazy till I find > > a good lb of bacon. Sure, I leave a trail of violated and strewn bacon > > packages but that's just too damn bad. If they want the packages to stay > > pristine, they'll remove the removable flaps so I don't have to. I guess > > they figure most folks, like those who will not pick and choose in produce, > > are afraid to rip those flaps off. Sorry Charlie. I be rippin'! > > > > nb > > I gave up on pre-packaged bacon. I'm lucky enough to have an > "old-time" butcher in my area and buy slab bacon. They'll either > slice it to my specs. or "whack" me off a hunk and I'll slice it when > I get home. Cost more? Yup. Worth it? Absolutely. > > -- > Steve > I agree - bacon is not the place to pinch pennies. I don;t eat it that often any more and when I do I want the absolute best. -- Peter Aitken Remove the crap from my email address before using. |
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"Steve Calvin" > wrote in message
... > notbob wrote: > <snip> > > > > Now, I buy bacon based on price. With bacon running around $6 lb, I won't > > buy unless it's on sale in the $3-4 range. So, when Bar S has a sale on > > bacon, like they did last week, I have no qualms whatsoever about going > > through half a dozen or more packages, ripping flaps like crazy till I find > > a good lb of bacon. Sure, I leave a trail of violated and strewn bacon > > packages but that's just too damn bad. If they want the packages to stay > > pristine, they'll remove the removable flaps so I don't have to. I guess > > they figure most folks, like those who will not pick and choose in produce, > > are afraid to rip those flaps off. Sorry Charlie. I be rippin'! > > > > nb > > I gave up on pre-packaged bacon. I'm lucky enough to have an > "old-time" butcher in my area and buy slab bacon. They'll either > slice it to my specs. or "whack" me off a hunk and I'll slice it when > I get home. Cost more? Yup. Worth it? Absolutely. > > -- > Steve > I agree - bacon is not the place to pinch pennies. I don;t eat it that often any more and when I do I want the absolute best. -- Peter Aitken Remove the crap from my email address before using. |
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On 8/23/2004, Tank wrote:
>This year, I have noticed a number of grocery stores placing >trash cans next to their sweet corn displays. <snip> I haven't seen this yet in my town. My issue in this same vein involves asparagus. It doesn't really matter where I go, except for the farmers' market at the height of asparagus season. The asparagus isn't prepackaged, but it is bundled, usually with a rubber band. I don't know whether the store staff bundles them or whether they come that way from the distributor. Every bundle, which typically contains maybe 20 to 30 spears, depending on thickness, has several "busted" heads, i.e. spears that have gone to seed. It's this way at Safeway, at Whole Foods and at the local "upscale" grocers. At first I accepted this, as the busted spears appeared to be evenly (and therefore small d" democratically) distributed among the bundles so that all customers are screwed equally. More recently, I started simply throwing them away before making my purchase. I then came to think that this wasn't exactly the right thing to do, so I pointed out my issue to the produce clerks in the various stores. They uniformly said to just pull out the spears I didn't want and leave them on the side of the display. The only point some of them made was that some customers were buying the stuff for soup or to chop up for a salad or something like that and didn't care about the broken heads, not fully persuasive but not utterly invalid either. As for cherry-picking the berry baskets, different answer. I'd prefer that as few people as possible paw my produce. I have no idea where those hands have been. |
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On 8/23/2004, Tank wrote:
>This year, I have noticed a number of grocery stores placing >trash cans next to their sweet corn displays. <snip> I haven't seen this yet in my town. My issue in this same vein involves asparagus. It doesn't really matter where I go, except for the farmers' market at the height of asparagus season. The asparagus isn't prepackaged, but it is bundled, usually with a rubber band. I don't know whether the store staff bundles them or whether they come that way from the distributor. Every bundle, which typically contains maybe 20 to 30 spears, depending on thickness, has several "busted" heads, i.e. spears that have gone to seed. It's this way at Safeway, at Whole Foods and at the local "upscale" grocers. At first I accepted this, as the busted spears appeared to be evenly (and therefore small d" democratically) distributed among the bundles so that all customers are screwed equally. More recently, I started simply throwing them away before making my purchase. I then came to think that this wasn't exactly the right thing to do, so I pointed out my issue to the produce clerks in the various stores. They uniformly said to just pull out the spears I didn't want and leave them on the side of the display. The only point some of them made was that some customers were buying the stuff for soup or to chop up for a salad or something like that and didn't care about the broken heads, not fully persuasive but not utterly invalid either. As for cherry-picking the berry baskets, different answer. I'd prefer that as few people as possible paw my produce. I have no idea where those hands have been. |
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On 8/23/2004, Tank wrote:
>This year, I have noticed a number of grocery stores placing >trash cans next to their sweet corn displays. <snip> I haven't seen this yet in my town. My issue in this same vein involves asparagus. It doesn't really matter where I go, except for the farmers' market at the height of asparagus season. The asparagus isn't prepackaged, but it is bundled, usually with a rubber band. I don't know whether the store staff bundles them or whether they come that way from the distributor. Every bundle, which typically contains maybe 20 to 30 spears, depending on thickness, has several "busted" heads, i.e. spears that have gone to seed. It's this way at Safeway, at Whole Foods and at the local "upscale" grocers. At first I accepted this, as the busted spears appeared to be evenly (and therefore small d" democratically) distributed among the bundles so that all customers are screwed equally. More recently, I started simply throwing them away before making my purchase. I then came to think that this wasn't exactly the right thing to do, so I pointed out my issue to the produce clerks in the various stores. They uniformly said to just pull out the spears I didn't want and leave them on the side of the display. The only point some of them made was that some customers were buying the stuff for soup or to chop up for a salad or something like that and didn't care about the broken heads, not fully persuasive but not utterly invalid either. As for cherry-picking the berry baskets, different answer. I'd prefer that as few people as possible paw my produce. I have no idea where those hands have been. |
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zxcvbob wrote:
> I peel one or two representative ears back a little to check if they > are filled out OK In June, I was in Miami. The corn was in an end cap display and there were two huge cardboard boxes beneath the corn. People were shucking their corn in the store. I visit Florida a few times each year, and this was the first time I had seen this. We are not doing that in Texas, yet. Becca |
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zxcvbob wrote:
> I peel one or two representative ears back a little to check if they > are filled out OK In June, I was in Miami. The corn was in an end cap display and there were two huge cardboard boxes beneath the corn. People were shucking their corn in the store. I visit Florida a few times each year, and this was the first time I had seen this. We are not doing that in Texas, yet. Becca |
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zxcvbob wrote:
> I peel one or two representative ears back a little to check if they > are filled out OK In June, I was in Miami. The corn was in an end cap display and there were two huge cardboard boxes beneath the corn. People were shucking their corn in the store. I visit Florida a few times each year, and this was the first time I had seen this. We are not doing that in Texas, yet. Becca |
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:10:27 -0500, Katra
> wrote: > Who pays by WEIGHT for corn on the cob??? That was my reaction too. sf Practice safe eating - always use condiments |
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