ORGANIC JERKS?
on 05/19/2012 at 02:27 AM
I would have agreed a couple of years ago - but my recent forays into Whole Foods and Traders Joes in the past few weeks, changed my opinion. I just wish we had a paycheck and I could shop there all the time. The asparagus (I haven’t gotten mine going - since it’s been so rainy) was great, I bought a low cost broccoli seedlings basket which turned out to be on sale at 50% off (and no they weren’t dying) and the people are as nice as can be. I’ve never been hassled when I don’t bring my bags and at Traders Joes, the organic lamb rack is almost half of what the grocery stores (when you can find them) are charging.
It has to do with something in East Coast and Left Coast elite liberal holier-than-thou attitude, not with going organic.Hey mama, I’ve been to several Whole Food stores and like them. But never to Trader Joes. Is Trader Joes the same as Whole Foods?.......better or worse?
Trader Joes in Palm Desert was a favorite of ours for some items. Never thought of them as health food altho I guess they do have a lot of that stuff there. They used to sell marvelous cocoa covered almonds in a container. Really looked forward to visiting and buying that item on last trip home. Damn,damn. Some rocket scientist somewhere decided they needed to do a snack patch or upgrade and they changed the recipe. Can you believe it, they added chili powder or something hot to what was once a great treat. UH!
But they do have some good stuff there.> “If you want fruit platters, go to Safeway. We’re organic.”
> “You didn’t bring your own bag? I need to charge you if you didn’t bring your own bag.”Either one of those statements might be enough for me to leave, but the combination of the two? This is my wallet… full of cash… that isn’t going to spend here, pal.
Be welcoming to your customers. Be thankful they chose to do business with you and give you their hard earned money. Don’t discourage them from doing so!
I think it’s jerkness that attracts some folk to the organic foods. Same self-righteousness that causes people to drive a Prius.
Which came first, the free-range chicken, or the brown egg?
I have been into the local Whole Foods.... seemed like a reasonable place, although a bit expensive. Folk seemed friendly enough, even the cashier chuckled when I noted that I had never seen so many Birkenstocks in one place before.
Being involved in anything Organic sends up warning flags for me. Organic food,in my experience, is bland or nearly tasteless. Nothing like the veggies I grow myself. And the self righteousness of the Organic crowd is well known. The whole Green, Organic, Sustainable, sacrifice fetuses to Gaia philosophy smells of organic bullshit to me. It’s just another fad. Just another way for insignificant people to make themselves significant and to push normal people around. Eat what you want, from where you want, and mind your own damned business. Maybe what’s needed is a good old fashioned organic ass whoopin’.
OH, my mistake.
I thought you guys were talking about “orgasmic” food.
Ya know like “frumunda” cheese.
I often ask for inorganic whatever when I see something called “organic.” The label is b.s. and attracts smug assholery. Here in Seattle, a movement started to ban plastic bags. The usual clowns showed up at City Council last year wearing plastic bags, dragging along the poor victimized chillllrrrruuuunnn who’d be poisoned by all the plastic, blah blah blah. Citizens voted it down handily. Then this year, the Council, literally saying “we heard your voice last year,” passed a ban on platic bags! Not only plastic, but paper! Not by actually banning them, but by putting a “fee” of 5 cents on any bag the store uses to bag up your stuff! FEE? What service or good does the City do for me with that tax, er, fee? NOTHING! Lying sacks of tyrannical crap. Basstids!
I’m LMAO that some idiot funded a “study”, when all they needed to do was watch that one South Park episode where all the Prius drivers move to San Fran and get high off of the wonderful aroma of their own farts. Pretty much says it all.
Even further off the edge of the flat earth are the heirloom seed folks. Sure, grow your crop and save some of these seeds to grow your crop again next year. Just be happy with a yield less than half that of “engineered” hybrid seeds. As if every single kind of plant we eat isn’t already some kind of hyrid, from corn to wheat to arugula.
Like “health care”, the term “organic” is a misnomer that’s mostly BS. It does not mean healthy, it does not mean grown without pesticide. Not really sure what it does mean, but it seems to be a label that excuses Grade B produce being sold for 3 times the regular price.
The part that really cheeses me is the price. Sure, agribusiness can get triple the yield using the latest Monsanto seeds and the best fertilizers and bug killers. That does not mean that the organic farmer is ENTITLED to charge triple for his low yield produce, for which he has made the most minimal investment.
Traders Joes - has it’s own line of products - We haven’t tried them yet. A little selection of gluten free. But their meats, fruits and veggies are organic, a big plus for me.
Whole foods is much better (common natural and organic product lines, their own and even some normal grocery store items). Their gluten free bread is a winner in my book, as it tastes almost identical to regular white bread (a little less sweet, but not as dry as most GF breads) and believe me, we’ve tried a lot of brands - next in line is gluten free pantry white bread mix, it is good too). Yes Whole Foods prices are high - which is why we don’t shop there much.
As far as taste - I agree - it is hit and miss - some of the items (Erewhon Corn Flakes Cereal) I’d rather have eaten the box, it certainly would have had more flavor. And I have learned to read labels. The Horizon Organic milks - my daughter can’t drink them as they use carrageenan. And a lot of the natural and organic foods now have sugar in them.
I prefer the organic and natural meats, fruits and veggies as it has less (if not zero) pesticides, antibiotics and certainly aren’t from gmo seeds.
Add in that the natural and organic products aren’t going to have artificial colorings and/or flavorings - and that is less chemicals that you are consuming. Which is primarily my goal, whole natural foods in as close to a raw state as possible.
It is just a shame that the Big Food lobbied DC to make ‘going organic’ extremely hard and more importantly extremely expensive.
Organic food turns people into jerks and someday soon organic jerks will turn people into food. Que Heston…
Someone at work today reminded me that there is lots of fraud in the organic food business.Just because it says organic doesn’t mean it was grown naturally or without chemicals. If it grew in dirt it can be called organic.
States are taking a proper hand in trying to regularize this greenist bullshot. What is green, sustainable, organic, natural, local? “Green” is about useless. If somethingis here today and can be made to be here later, it is “sustainable.” If it has carbon in it, it is “organic.” Deer poop is “natural.” Is local in the next town, next state, anywhere in a region, form the U.S. or Canada compared to, say, China or France? Meh, let the suckers pay more for nothing. I use my own understanding of the concepts these words are supposed to define.
Somehow the notion that food grown in crap is better than food grown with chemicals eludes me.
Part of the problem is that under the current Administration and never forget, from 2007 the Dems controlled both the House and Senate - the politicization of most everything in America went over the edge of craziness and that the Dems for decades have distorted the meaning of words on purpose.
As I said, it takes work to sift through the crap out there - no matter what the business/issue. It is tragic what the liberals have done to America.
I just hope that we can fix it - or even be able to find people who truly do want to fix it.
Here in Seattle, a movement started to ban plastic bags.
Rick ... it’s worse here cos many have bought into that bit of craziness. One village even declared itself, I kid you not, as “plastic bag free.”
A cashier made some comment to my wife awhile back about the bags and we asked her if she had bothered to read the wording on a Tesco bag since she worked there. Blank stare. So the wife opened one flat and readable in plain to see letters and asked the cashier what it said. Oh she says, I never noticed that. Typical gweeny. Knee jerk emotions. The bags say bio degradable. And Tesco says they will degrade in the soil after 18 months.The Daily Mail has been on a year long crusade to ban the bag. Never mind that they are not always just single use. And of course the sheep buy into it all.
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