Sqwertz wrote:
> So somebody who is a world-traveler wouldn't be out of line asking
> about local boiled peanuts.
>
> -sw

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Austin, TX

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September 2008

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Clothes, usually

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Santa Cruz, CA and Pittsburgh, PA

My Blog Or Website
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My Second Favorite Website
http://IMDB.com: one of the first really useful sites on the Internet.

The Last Great Book I Read
Grapes of Wrath (I was a late Steinbeck devotee)

My First Concert
Rush - Moving PIctures (Twice, SF and Pittsburgh)

My Last Meal On Earth
I'd rather spend that hour raping and pillaging

Don't Tell Anyone Else But...
I'd rather be posting to Usenet

Most Recent Discovery
I'm getting older

Current Crush
Grape

Shell Gas Station
Categories: Gas & Service Stations, Convenience Stores
Neighborhoods: 78704 (South Austin), South Lamar District
12/17/2012 First to Review
I went in to buy cigarettes as I do twice a week for the last 6 months
and was given "short" cigarettes instead of the longer 100's style. I
was halfway out the door when I realized the mistake. The door hadn't
even had time to close behind me when I went back in to get the right
cigarettes. Had to wait behind a few other people at the cash
register but when I got there he said they have a policy that once you
leave the store you cannot return or exchange anything. I told him
the door never even closed behind me so technically I never left the
store. And more importantly you gave me the wrong cigarettes. It was
a simple exchange.

He said "No, you asked for 'Short' cigarettes", which was total BS as
I told him, "I do this twice a week, and you give me the correct
cigarettes every other time. The word "shorts" is not even in my
vocabulary." He still insisted those are what I asked for. Rather
than providing the simplest customer service he chose to argue with me
and insist I said something that I didn't. He refused to exchange the
cigarettes for the ones I originally asked for.

This is the same Shell station where a woman accused the store clerk
(Amirali Noorji Maknojia, age 44) of sexually assaulting her in the
bathroom back on March 4th, 2008 (story available in
http://Statesmen.com archives, author Tony Plohetski). While I didn't
exactly get raped in the sexual sense, I'm still amazed at the
treatment. It's clear that their pig-headed customer service still
has a quite a ways to go if hey can't even provide the most basic
customer service for regular customers.

Sqwertz wrote:
> If somebody told you to eat the shells you need to seek them out after
> all these years and beat the shit out of them.

Let's go then, ya yellow *******!

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Steve "Rockin the Boat" W.'s Profile

Location
Austin, TX

Yelping Since
September 2008

Find Me In
Clothes, usually

My Hometown
Santa Cruz, CA and Pittsburgh, PA

My Blog Or Website
http://www.flickr.com/ph…

My Second Favorite Website
http://IMDB.com: one of the first really useful sites on the Internet.

The Last Great Book I Read
Grapes of Wrath (I was a late Steinbeck devotee)

My First Concert
Rush - Moving PIctures (Twice, SF and Pittsburgh)

My Last Meal On Earth
I'd rather spend that hour raping and pillaging

Don't Tell Anyone Else But...
I'd rather be posting to Usenet

Most Recent Discovery
I'm getting older

Current Crush
Grape

Shell Gas Station
Categories: Gas & Service Stations, Convenience Stores
Neighborhoods: 78704 (South Austin), South Lamar District
12/17/2012 First to Review
I went in to buy cigarettes as I do twice a week for the last 6 months
and was given "short" cigarettes instead of the longer 100's style. I
was halfway out the door when I realized the mistake. The door hadn't
even had time to close behind me when I went back in to get the right
cigarettes. Had to wait behind a few other people at the cash
register but when I got there he said they have a policy that once you
leave the store you cannot return or exchange anything. I told him
the door never even closed behind me so technically I never left the
store. And more importantly you gave me the wrong cigarettes. It was
a simple exchange.

He said "No, you asked for 'Short' cigarettes", which was total BS as
I told him, "I do this twice a week, and you give me the correct
cigarettes every other time. The word "shorts" is not even in my
vocabulary." He still insisted those are what I asked for. Rather
than providing the simplest customer service he chose to argue with me
and insist I said something that I didn't. He refused to exchange the
cigarettes for the ones I originally asked for.

This is the same Shell station where a woman accused the store clerk
(Amirali Noorji Maknojia, age 44) of sexually assaulting her in the
bathroom back on March 4th, 2008 (story available in
http://Statesmen.com archives, author Tony Plohetski). While I didn't
exactly get raped in the sexual sense, I'm still amazed at the
treatment. It's clear that their pig-headed customer service still
has a quite a ways to go if hey can't even provide the most basic
customer service for regular customers.

On Saturday, July 20, 2013 3:05:14 PM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> Probably something birds won't eat, then I have no desire.
>

This explains a lot. Thanks for... the rest of the story. :-)

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 01:43:39 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>>> For what it's worth, I think they are really nasty. I tried them once.
>>>> They
>>>> came in a pack of brine and were unshelled. I was told that you eat
>>>> the
>>>> shells and all. After a bite or two, I wrote them off forever. ;-o
>>>
>>> If somebody told you to eat the shells you need to seek them out after
>>> all these years and beat the shit out of them.
>>>
>>> But you can still write off boiled peanuts. They sell them canned
>>> here in TX and they are the most god-awful things you can ever
>>> imagine.
>>
>> That's what I bought. Canned. So awful I wouldn't give them to the food
>> bank!
>
> We see a *lot* of the boiled peanuts at the food bank. The big 28oz
> cans of them. A company called Peanut Patch has the canned boiled
> peanuts market cornered.
>
> Somebody once complained that they can't find canned pumpkin except
> around the holidays. I'm pretty sure that canned pumpkin just
> circulates between food banks and unwitting food pantry recipients who
> just give it right back to the food banks. I bet if we put trackers
> on some of the canned pumpkin that we'd find that most of them get
> circulated through the food bank at least 5 times before being tossed
> or eaten. It is one of the top 3 most donated canned vegetable.

There is canned pumpkin in our stores year round. I use a lot of it, but
have never donated canned pumpkin to food banks. I haven't seen boiled
peanuts, but then I haven't looked for them either.

Cheri

"Cheri" > wrote in message
...
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 01:43:39 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> For what it's worth, I think they are really nasty. I tried them
>>>>> once.
>>>>> They
>>>>> came in a pack of brine and were unshelled. I was told that you eat
>>>>> the
>>>>> shells and all. After a bite or two, I wrote them off forever. ;-o
>>>>
>>>> If somebody told you to eat the shells you need to seek them out after
>>>> all these years and beat the shit out of them.
>>>>
>>>> But you can still write off boiled peanuts. They sell them canned
>>>> here in TX and they are the most god-awful things you can ever
>>>> imagine.
>>>
>>> That's what I bought. Canned. So awful I wouldn't give them to the
>>> food
>>> bank!
>>
>> We see a *lot* of the boiled peanuts at the food bank. The big 28oz
>> cans of them. A company called Peanut Patch has the canned boiled
>> peanuts market cornered.
>>
>> Somebody once complained that they can't find canned pumpkin except
>> around the holidays. I'm pretty sure that canned pumpkin just
>> circulates between food banks and unwitting food pantry recipients who
>> just give it right back to the food banks. I bet if we put trackers
>> on some of the canned pumpkin that we'd find that most of them get
>> circulated through the food bank at least 5 times before being tossed
>> or eaten. It is one of the top 3 most donated canned vegetable.
>
> There is canned pumpkin in our stores year round. I use a lot of it, but
> have never donated canned pumpkin to food banks. I haven't seen boiled
> peanuts, but then I haven't looked for them either.


There has been a known canned pumpkin shortage for years. Exception being
the organic. And for some reason, it is an item that our food bank wants.

I had to mail order the boiled peanuts.

Sqwertz wrote:
> Except that they're wet.
>
> -sw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIN8MmMloZE

"You know I been smokin' all a my life and I ain't dead yet...

Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gates, that you hate to make him wait, but
you just gotta have another ciagarette."


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Location
Austin, TX

Most Recent Discovery
I'm getting older

I went in to buy cigarettes as I do twice a week for the last 6 months
and was given "short" cigarettes instead of the longer 100's style. I
was halfway out the door when I realized the mistake. The door hadn't
even had time to close behind me when I went back in to get the right
cigarettes. Had to wait behind a few other people at the cash
register but when I got there he said they have a policy that once you
leave the store you cannot return or exchange anything. I told him
the door never even closed behind me so technically I never left the
store. And more importantly you gave me the wrong cigarettes. It was
a simple exchange.

On 2013-07-22 02:12:05 +0000, dsi1 said:

> On Saturday, July 20, 2013 3:05:14 PM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> Probably something birds won't eat, then I have no desire.
>>
>
> This explains a lot. Thanks for... the rest of the story. :-)

An interesting method of judgement. It rules out every pickle, I'd imagine.

On 7/22/2013 6:53 AM, gtr wrote:
> On 2013-07-22 02:12:05 +0000, dsi1 said:
>
>> On Saturday, July 20, 2013 3:05:14 PM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> Probably something birds won't eat, then I have no desire.
>>>
>>
>> This explains a lot. Thanks for... the rest of the story. :-)
>
> An interesting method of judgement. It rules out every pickle, I'd imagine.
>

I let my dog tell me where to park the car. Sometimes I find a spot
really close to where I want to go but the damn dog won't have any of
it. I don't know WTF is up with that pooch.

"dsi1" > wrote in message
...
> On 7/22/2013 6:53 AM, gtr wrote:
>> On 2013-07-22 02:12:05 +0000, dsi1 said:
>>
>>> On Saturday, July 20, 2013 3:05:14 PM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Probably something birds won't eat, then I have no desire.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This explains a lot. Thanks for... the rest of the story. :-)
>>
>> An interesting method of judgement. It rules out every pickle, I'd
>> imagine.
>>
>
> I let my dog tell me where to park the car. Sometimes I find a spot really
> close to where I want to go but the damn dog won't have any of it. I don't
> know WTF is up with that pooch.

Dogs know things! Pay attention ...

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In article >,
"pavane" > wrote:

> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
> > When I was at the farm stand today they were selling (among other things I
> > posted about earlier) peanuts. These weren't boiled peanuts, which are
> > green (raw) peanuts which have been long-cooked in the shell, in brine.
> > Sometimes with other seasonings. Boiled peanuts are soft. (You either
> > love them or hate them.)
> >
> > This older woman was looking at loose peanuts in the shell at the farm
> > stand. She asked the guy, "Are these boiled peanuts?" I chuckled to
> > myself. They were merely roasted in the shell peanuts. She's obviously
> > new to this part of the Lowcountry. There's no mistaking roasted peanuts
> > for boiled green peanuts.
>
> OMIGOD Jill got to laugh at a tourist. An older woman, no less, not
> a young bright college student, but an uneducated ill-informed tourist
> who did not know about the differences in peanuts. The mind boggles
> to imagine such ignorant people actually travelling and despoiling the
> pristine cultural wonder of the Lowcountry. I hope you told her off well,
> Dear Jill, and instilled in her and whatever companions were with her
> a dread fear of venturing into Your Lowcountry, Protect it well since
> you recently inherited it and must feel a distinct protectiveness and
> need to laugh at all who do not share your (1 year?) inherited knowledge.
> And of course please do keep us informed of your Triumphs.

I agree with you.

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