Anybody have a Whole Foods Grocery Store around them?

[BIG_DADDY]

I have been doing more and more of this organic thing but it was really a pain and expensive. About a year ago they put in a whole foods grocery store down the street, I love that place. Not only are most things there organic but the price on similar products was found to be significantly cheaper than Safeway. I also love a place here called Trader Joes. I can get organic chickens there for $1.59 a pound and a dozen large organic brown eggs for only $2.99 If you have either of these stores around you should do yourself a favor and check them out.

[Saulbadguy]

They've also got lots of chutney.

[NewChief]

Our Natural Food Store is a local cooperative. Unfortunately their prices really, really suck. It's ridiculously expensive. I hate to wish for a big chain like Whole Foods Markets or Wild Oats to come in and put them out of business, but the place is so mismanaged that I almost wish it would happen.

In the summer the wife and I buy all our produce from the local farmer's market, which has quite a few organic growers. Organic is definitely the way to go.

The other good thing about organic farming is that it's providing a niche market for the small family-based farms to still succeed in the increasingly huge agri dominated industry.

[Baby Lee]

I go for Tazo brambleberry tea [the best potable on earth] and St. Albray cheese. Sometimes they put prime rib on the hot bar. 5.99 a pound for cooked prime rib. Yummy. Their everything bread is awesome too.
The other great supermarket in St. Louie [Kirkwood, actually] is World Foods. Every aisle is a country. England, Germany, Greece, Turkey, China, Cambodia, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Lebanon, etc., etc. Everything from gyro meat, to weisswurst, to 80 kinds of salted, smoked, or fresh fish, to Ribena. Wines and beers from every country. Even Durian if you are a masochist.

[Eleazar]

Damned if I'm going out to overland park to buy eggs that were laid on pillows or something.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Ribena.

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[Rain Man]

Whole Foods has great food, but it's not convenient for us. I'll go there occasionally for a smoothie or to get some already-prepared food, but not often. Also, I boycotted them for several months since they have horrible parking at the nearby store. The last time I was there, I was waiting for someone to pull out of the only empty spot on the lot, and some old lady backed her car up toward me and kept backing until I retreated, and then she took the spot.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Whole Foods has great food, but it's not convenient for us. I'll go there occasionally for a smoothie or to get some already-prepared food, but not often. Also, I boycotted them for several months since they have horrible parking at the nearby store. The last time I was there, I was waiting for someone to pull out of the only empty spot on the lot, and some old lady backed her car up toward me and kept backing until I retreated, and then she took the spot.

The sketch:

(Sketch opens with a pan across Bolton. Voice of reporter.)

Voice Over: This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city. Yes, gangs of old ladies attacking defenceless fit young men.

(Film of old ladies beating up two young men; then several grannies walking aggressively along street, pushing passers-by aside.)

Hell's Grannies

First Young Man: Well they come up to you, like, and push you - shove you off the pavement, like. There's usually four or five of them.

Second Young Man: Yeah, this used to be a nice neighbourhood before the old ladies started moving in. Nowadays some of us daren't even go down to the shops.

Third Young Man: Well Mr Johnson's son Kevin, he don't go out any more. He comes back from wrestling and locks himself in his room.

(Film of grannies harrassing an attractive girl.)

Voice Over: What are they in it for, these old hoodlums, these layabouts in lace?

First Granny: (voice over) Well it's something to do isn't it?

Second Granny: (voice over) It's good fun.

Third Granny: (voice over) It's like you know, well, innit, eh?

Voice Over: Favourite targets for the old ladies are telephone kiosks.

(Film of grannies carrying off a telephone kiosk; then painting slogans on a wall.)

Policeman: (coming up to them) Well come on, come on, off with you. Clear out, come on get out of it. (they clear off, he turns to camera) We have a lot of trouble with these oldies. Pension day's the worst - they go mad. As soon as they get their hands on their money they blow it all on milk, bread, tea, tin of meat for the cat.

(Cut to cinema.)

Cinema Manager: Yes, well of course they come here for the two o'clock matinee, all the old bags out in there, especially if it's something like 'The Sound of Music'. We get seats ripped up, hearing aids broken, all that sort of thing.

(A policeman hustles two grannies out of the cinema. Cut to reporter walking along street.)

Reporter: The whole problem of these senile delinquents lies in their complete rejection of the values of contemporary society. They've seen their children grow up and become accountants, stockbrokers and even sociologists, and they begin to wonder if it is all really...(disappears downwards rapidly) arggh!

( Shot of two grannies replacing manhole cover. Cut to young couple.)

Fourth Young Man: Oh well we sometimes feel we're to blame in some way for what our gran's become. I mean she used to be happy here until she, she started on the crochet.

Reporter: (off-screen) Crochet?

Fourth Young Man: Yeah. Now she can't do without it. Twenty balls of wool a day, sometimes. If she can't get the wool she gets violent. What can we do about it?

(Film of grannies on motorbikes roaring down streets and through a shop. One has 'Hell's Grannies' on her jacket.)

Voice Over: But this is not just an old ladies' town. There are other equally dangerous gangs - such as the baby snatchers.

(Film of five men in baby outfits carrying off a young man from outside a shop. Cut to distraught wife.)

Wife: I just left my husband out here while I went in to do some shopping and I came back and he was gone. He was only forty-seven.

Voice Over: And on the road too, vicious gangs of keep left signs.

(Film: two keep-left signs attack a vicar.)

Colonel: (coming up and stopping them) Right, fight, stop it. This film's got silly. Started off with a nice little idea about grannies attacking young men, but now it's got silly. This man's hair is too long for a vicar too. These signs are pretty badly made. Right, now for a complete change of mood.

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by Cochise

Damned if I'm going out to overland park to buy eggs that were laid on pillows or something.

Just find the cheapest place to buy organic eggs I only pay $2.99 a dozen. You really want to keep as many antibiotics out of your system as you can. Organic eggs shells are much thicker too and you tell right away that the bird that produced that egg is WAY healthier.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Donger

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Not a fan of overpriced, imported, Kool-Aid?

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I go for Tazo brambleberry tea [the best potable on earth] and St. Albray cheese. Sometimes they put prime rib on the hot bar. 5.99 a pound for cooked prime rib. Yummy. Their everything bread is awesome too.
The other great supermarket in St. Louie [Kirkwood, actually] is World Foods. Every aisle is a country. England, Germany, Greece, Turkey, China, Cambodia, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Lebanon, etc., etc. Everything from gyro meat, to weisswurst, to 80 kinds of salted, smoked, or fresh fish, to Ribena. Wines and beers from every country. Even Durian if you are a masochist.

We don't have a World Foods here but it sounds good. You getting that tea at Whole Foods?

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Not a fan of overpriced, imported, Kool-Aid?

Considering I was raised on that crap, no. No I'm not.

[Demonpenz]

does whole foods have a mcdonalds in there?

[Iowanian]

There are a couple near where I live, but I never go.........they're pretty much reserved for broads who don't shave their armpits, the pony tails that date them, and the people who live in the local cult...i mean "community".

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

Just find the cheapest place to buy organic eggs I only pay $2.99 a dozen. You really want to keep as many antibiotics out of your system as you can. Organic eggs shells are much thicker too and you tell right away that the bird that produced that egg is WAY healthier.

Well, I don't really buy eggs. It's getting to where I don't eat meat very often at all either. I do eat chicken, but as far as red meat, barely ever anymore. Not to sound like a hippie or anything, just don't really have a taste for it as much as I used to.

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by Cochise

Well, I don't really buy eggs. It's getting to where I don't eat meat very often at all either. I do eat chicken, but as far as red meat, barely ever anymore. Not to sound like a hippie or anything, just don't really have a taste for it as much as I used to.

I love Steak and Pork but I try to keep my intake down to once a week. Those pork shanks on the rotisserie rule.

Considering you don't eat much meat going organic should be pretty inexpensive if you find the right place. I was reading an article awhile back that was saying that organic demand is through the roof and there are many farms going that direction now to meet the demand. That is bringing down the price and I got to tell you I have noticed a big drop off in what I have to pay to get it here now.