In article >,
"Ophelia" > wrote:

> "itsjoannotjoann" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Mar 20, 1:42 pm, Omelet > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > > Sure. Ignore the article. It's what I plan to do. I wash my tote
> >> > > bags
> >> > > every once in a while just for fun and if something has leaked in
> >> > > one, I
> >> > > wash it for sure. I can't worry about it. Life is full of risks.
> >>
> >> > You're far more likely to get sick putting your food on a cart seat
> >> > that was
> >> > last occupied by a toddler with a dirty diaper.
> >>
> >> > Paul
> >>
> >> EW! Thanks for that one! <sigh> Now I'm gonna have to wipe down my
> >> cart seat every time I go to the store!
> >> --
> >> Peace! Om
> >>
> >>
> > Yuck! Me, too as I had not thought of that.
>
> I never actually use that bit. I keep it closed.
>
> --

I do too, but there is still the wire on either side of it...
--
Peace! Om

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"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." --Dalai Lama

In article >,
"Ophelia" > wrote:

> "Omelet" > wrote in message
> news
> > In article >,
> > "Ophelia" > wrote:
> >
> >> >> > If I carry my green bags like I should, they go in there first. My
> >> >> > purse is around my waist since I use a fannypack.
> >> >>
> >> >> <cough> good for you
> >> >>
> >> >> pssssssssssssssssss Om.. in UK the fanny bit is at the front.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> > It is for me too, sorta. I wear it by habit just forward of the left
> >> > hip. Sometimes the fannypack doubles as a holster depending on where I
> >> > am and where I am going, and I use a right handed cross-draw. ;-)
> >>
> >> That is not quite what I meant.. but never mind...
> >
> > <laughs> I know.
> >
> > I was just teasing you!
>
> <THWAP> ;p
> --

OW! <g>
--
Peace! Om

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"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." --Dalai Lama

In article >,
"Giusi" > wrote:

> "Omelet" > ha scritto nel messaggio newsmpomelet-
>
> It's > taking me time to get used to doing it. I really do like them
> better > for many reasons, one of which is that they hold a lot more so I
> can > make fewer trips into the house after a grocery run.
>
> Really? I have a few that I picked up in the US and I never use them here
> because they seem so tiny. Our reusable bags are enormous. You can use 2
> to do a week's shopping. They run about 30" high by 24" wide and 9" deep.
> They have bottle holder straps sewn inside and rounded handles. Many also
> have a strap that snaps to keep the top closed. I can get more in there
> than I can carry up the stairs to the kitchen.

Ok, so yours are truly better. :-) It's just that ours do hold more
than the plastic or paper bags. About double the load and they carry
more weight.

I might just have to break down and bug sis' to borrow the sewing
machine and make some like that!
--
Peace! Om

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"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." --Dalai Lama

In article >,
"Giusi" > wrote:

> "Omelet" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> > sf > wrote:
> "Giusi" >
>
> >> > At the supermarkets most of it is in little sealed trays, no?
> >>
> >> They often don't seal the trays very well, so the bottoms are damp.
> >
> > Or leaky.
>
> Must be watery meat over there! Some of mine are so sealed I have to stab
> them with knives to get in.

It varies. Some are that good, some are not. Seems the bloodier packages
are the worst about it. I have to put chicken hearts into flimsies to
keep them from bleeding all over my other groceries.

Most other stuff is fine tho'. Just depends on what it is.
--
Peace! Om

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"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." --Dalai Lama

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:20:45 GMT, Janet Baraclough wrote:

> The message >
> from "Giusi" > contains these words:
>
>> "ImStillMags" ha scritto nel messaggio
>> "gloria.p" > wrote:
>>> I just saw this in a newspaper:
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yg6alyk
>>>
>>> Any suggestions/solutions?
>>>
>>> gloria p
>
>> well, I guess if you put raw meat directly into the bag....
>
> That's the trouble with cavemen today. Instead of just dragging the
> bleeding hunks of flesh and bone back to the cave
> giving a free meal to passing flies, they expect to have their prey
> sliced, chopped and gift wrapped.
>
> I blame the parents
>
> Janet

<snort>

your pal,
blake

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:13:12 -0400, brooklyn1 wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:28:58 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:26:05 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 2010-03-20, gloria.p > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I just saw this in a newspaper:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/yg6alyk
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions/solutions?
>>>>
>>>>When any good idea comes along, can the alarmists be far behind?
>>>>
>>>>Ummm...yeah. Using reusable grocery bags to store rotting road kill,
>>>>then emptying them long enough to shop for bulk granola or fresh
>>>>peaches, is probably not such a good idea. Like my late FIL used to
>>>>say, "Gotta be smarter than the tool".
>>>
>>> Modern disposable shopping bags (paper and plastic) are "greener than
>>> reusables".... disposables consume far less energy to manufacture, can
>>> actually be reused many times and for many purposes, and are highly
>>> biodegradable. Laundering bags creates far more pollution and
>>> consumes far more energy than disposables.
>>
>>
>>Plastic does not biodegrade at all, they photodegrade and when they do they
>>release toxic compounds. Plastics are made from oil.
>
> Not true. "plastic" does not necessarilly mean petrochemical... I
> strongly suggest you consult a dictionary... maybe you'd be so kind as
> to share your dictionary with our low IQ resident mick... vocabulary
> is obviously not his forte, I don't think he has a forte.

every grocery plastic bag i've seen is #2 recyclable plastic, which is
*not* 'highly biodegradable.' if you can back that up, do so.

i'll leave whether or not you're a low i.q. yid as an exercise for the
reader.

blake

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:55:08 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

> Dimitri wrote:
>> "gloria.p" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> I just saw this in a newspaper:
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yg6alyk
>>>
>>> Any suggestions/solutions?
>
>> Throw then into the war-sher if you're from the east.
>>
>> Washer in the west.
>
> Hah, I think people in DC area say war-sher. Everyone I know
> save one says washer.
>
> nancy

untrue. the (white) people in d.c. who say 'warsher' are either
transplants from pennsylvania or ohio.

your pal,
blake

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:22:32 -0700, Dimitri wrote:

> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Dimitri wrote:
>>> "gloria.p" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> I just saw this in a newspaper:
>>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/yg6alyk
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions/solutions?
>>
>>> Throw then into the war-sher if you're from the east.
>>>
>>> Washer in the west.
>>
>> Hah, I think people in DC area say war-sher. Everyone I know
>> save one says washer.
>>
>> nancy
>
> Like Cuber the island
>
> :-)
>
> Dimitri

that would be boston, not d.c.

your pal,
blake

On Mar 21, 2:49*am, "Ophelia" > wrote:
> "itsjoannotjoann" > wrote in message
>
>
> >> > You're far more likely to get sick putting your food on a cart seat
> >> > that was
> >> > last occupied by a toddler with a dirty diaper.
>
> >> > Paul
>
> >> EW! *Thanks for that one! <sigh> *Now I'm gonna have to wipe down my
> >> cart seat every time I go to the store!
> >> --
> >> Peace! Om
>
> > Yuck! *Me, too as I had not thought of that. *
>
> I never actually use that bit. *I keep it closed.
>
>

I find the seat portion of a grocery cart is the perfect place to lay
my coupons and a loaf of bread to keep it from being crushed. I use
those "cart helper" bags that can be found widely on the internet; I
got mine from HSN (shopping channel) about 4 or 5 years ago.

"blake murphy" > wrote
>>> Throw then into the war-sher if you're from the east.
>>>
>>> Washer in the west.
>>
>> Hah, I think people in DC area say war-sher. Everyone I know
>> save one says washer.
>>
>> nancy
>
> untrue. the (white) people in d.c. who say 'warsher' are either
> transplants from pennsylvania or ohio.
>
> your pal,
> blake

Maybe Baltimore. Let's talk about this overa cup of caw-fee.

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:03:37 -0400, blake murphy
> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:22:32 -0700, Dimitri wrote:
>
> >
> > Like Cuber the island
> >
>
> that would be boston, not d.c.
>
Agreed.

--
Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

Giusi wrote:
> "ImStillMags" ha scritto nel messaggio
> > wrote:
>> I just saw this in a newspaper:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/yg6alyk
>>
>> Any suggestions/solutions?
>>
>> gloria p
>
> well, I guess if you put raw meat directly into the bag....
>
>> I still use the flimsy plastic bags in the meat and>produce department to
>> put stuff in. Foods never>actually
>> come into contact with my cloth grocery bags. Seems>like common sense to
>> me.
>
> So you use as many as twenty little bags to avoid using one big one?
> Who buys meat that is totally unwrapped? Even my butcher wraps it in
> butcher paper and string. At the supermarkets most of it is in little
> sealed trays, no?

I assume those sealed trays are the same as we have here in Aus - they
can and do leak sometimes.

As for using the reusable bags - I don't. I *want* the plastic shopping
bags, I find them very useful here, mainly to use as a bin liner in the
kitchen. But I use most of them to bag up portions of pet meat, which
then goes into the freezer.
I don't buy enough stuff in shops to keep my supplies up, so I get
friends to collect and keep 'em for me.

What gets me, I've seen on a number of occasions ppl using those
reusable bags - and yet they still buy plastic bin liners...



--
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who haven't got it - George Bernard Shaw

Arri London wrote:
<snip>
> Sainsbury's used to sell 'photobiodegradable' trash bags. However, there
> was a lack of logic to that. Landfills aren't good sources of sunlight,
> as the trash is packed in layers and soil put over that.

Of course. But what of the bags that don't make it to the landfills?
The fact that U.V will degrade them is a good thing, IMO.

--
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who haven't got it - George Bernard Shaw

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:15:02 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> "blake murphy" > wrote
>>>> Throw then into the war-sher if you're from the east.
>>>>
>>>> Washer in the west.
>>>
>>> Hah, I think people in DC area say war-sher. Everyone I know
>>> save one says washer.
>>>
>>> nancy
>>
>> untrue. the (white) people in d.c. who say 'warsher' are either
>> transplants from pennsylvania or ohio.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
> Maybe Baltimore. Let's talk about this overa cup of caw-fee.
>

yeah, maybe baltimore. but most white folks who live there love it and
wouldn't move.

years of living in d.c. (third-generation native) have taught me that maybe
seven out of ten white people not born here are from pennsylvania or ohio.
the feeder states for black immigrants seem to be north and south carolina.

working for the feds in the big city can be a draw if you were born in east
jesus somewhere in any of those states.

your pal,
blake