Our local McDonald’s has dozens of vultures that sit in the trees behind their parking lot by the trash bins. No fools, they.
This is a vision out of a scary movie!
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Of course, now all I can think of the Les Nessman bit on “WKRP in Cincinnati” and then Mr. Carlson saying “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”
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Great episode as if there were any bad ones.
I enjoyed the morning hog reports by Les.
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We have wild turkeys hanging around the streets of my neighborhood in Hayward, mostly on the streets closest to the 2 local creeks.
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We have wild turkeys too, and they are bigger than you think, and they have scared me…but vultures…turkey or otherwise…naw.
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Humorous.
I love “retail therapy”, be it clothes, shoes, accessories, food products, wines etcetra.
My beloved prefers to join me however, rarely ever goes to a market or supermarket alone. He prefers I do it or we do together or I get it done alone.
Best wishes !!!
I saw actual vultures recently too, doing what they naturally do to the remains of a squirrel in the street.
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I may have mentioned this before, but it drives me nuts when different brands of one ingredient is in several different places in the store, but not where you’d expect them.
For example, I wanted reasonably priced cumin, and I had liked Pereg, but Badia would have been okay. What was in the spice section was overpriced McCormick’s, or Shoprite, both in very small jars. (I use cumin by the tablespoon.) I checked the Hispanic section–no cumin. I checked the Indian section–no cumin. Weird–cumin is a basic ingredient in both cuisines. Then I see Pereg spices in the Passover section, but no cumin. However, in the main kosher section, there is Pereg cumin. Does this make any sense?
(I normally buy cumin at the Indian grocery, but I’m limiting my store visits. I have to wonder–if I ordered it online, would they be able to find it, or just substitute another brand?)
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It does to me, especially because I know your ShopRite and I know how big their kosher section is. If something is in the Passover section, it must be certified Kosher for Passover. Someone strict won’t buy any Passover goods without that certification–I know because on Passover, we had weird, off-brand versions of the most mundane things, like canned pineapple. The Pereg spices probably have the regular kosher certification but not the K for P one, and hence can’t be in the Passover section.
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It’s Marketing 101. The majority of shoppers won’t go checking ethnic aisles for specific ingredients frequently used by a certain culture. They buy what’s right in front of them in the main aisles they’re used to shopping in. Buying the more expensive brands they recognize (McCormick’s) is fine with them (because they don’t know any better) and more profitable to the store.
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I know that. I guess I’m surprised/confused about why only some of their spices are KP.
(And Shoprite has the Passover matzoh off at the far end of the from windows from the Passover section. Just more confusion.)
That image just cracks me up!
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That’s odd. Maybe they think not many people who keep Passover are going to want cumin? Otherwise, probably $$.
He looks just a bit more menacing than I pictured him to be. And don’t try to question my gender assignment, either.
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This surprises me. It’s a little like hearing that the common bean is in danger, or that the stop sign will be forgotten unless a project is undertaken to memorialize it.
(Though I did once live in an unsafe heavy-traffic neighbourhood where the city responded by ripping out all the signs - it worked extremely well - drivers really slow down when they can’t figure out what’s going on.)
My apologies if this was covered upthread, but my current peeve is customers’ handling and replacing products back on shelves. Of course, it is important to know what you are buying, but some shoppers seem to need to handle, maul, produce, packaged meat/deli, packaged goods that they seem to have no intention of actually buying.
Hand sanitizer or not, please pick it up only if you are pretty sure you are going to buy it.
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Just curious-- did the slowed-down traffic continue, or did people get careless again once they got used to the absence of signs?
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