How do you justify....

The Drunken Guest wrote: Nope...AND, you should tip them especially well for making them bring boxes of cat litter shit up to your apartment. Maybe you and caaahyoko should talk... y'all starting to weird me out.

FYI, I don't think they generally know what they're brining up to the apartment, since it's usually in a larger fresh direct box. So if they for some reason (other than the weight) had a problem with cat litter, they'd probably never know that's what they were carrying. I do tip them extra when I order more heavy shit. And I suspect they know what they're getting into when they take a job schlepping boxes of groceries. It's not all rice cakes and bags of chips that people order.

On a related note, I once read an article that claimed fresh direct hired an unually large number of ex-cons to be their deliver people. Now, I'm not saying these guys are murderers or rapists, could be completely white collar ( ) crimes. Anyone know? Anyone care? Anyone a convicted criminal themselves with a taste for hot pockets?

With all the bad things being said about local bodegas (deservedly so, don't get me wrong), I thought I'd throw in two cents worth of praise for my local corner bodega - Dolce Vita on the corner of 14th & 7th.

A fully stocked supermarket it is not - but it is clean as can be, has a great selection (again, not a real supermarket), and I like it. Basta!

They did stop carrying my favorite Haagen Daasszss ice cream bars, but I'm a forgiving sort.

The Drunken Guest wrote: Thanks Rose... I'm going to invest that $.02 very, very, wisely. You are a godsend, a breath of fresh air, a lifesaver, a wintergreen tic tak if you will.

So much hostility on such a beautiful spring day! What's the matter, do you have a hangover?

United Meat Market is PPW btw. 16th and Windsor. Two doors down from Farrell's.

Signed -

The loser with close to 1700 posts :oops:

er, I've wasted my life, folks.

and frankly, I wouldn't buy meat in any store in my nabe. I'm a snot that way. I wouldn't buy veg, either. my options for bklyn are green market, fairway or FD.

Drunken Guest, I think you've posted about your weird loathing of Fresh Direct before. Why don't you give it a rest? I know deep in your Stalinist heart you want us all to be forced to live as virtuously as you (or else rounded up and gassed, judging from the nasty, eliminationist tone of your posts) but not all of us can afford that big, nourishing plastic bubble of holiness that you live under. Okay, we get it: we're vile, irredeemable sinners (not to mention Ozone and "ambiance" killers) for wanting our Triscuits hand-delivered to us by a black man in a big truck. But don't you have better things to obsess over? Like stopping The Man from turning 6th Avenue into a one-way street, or deciding whether the Food Co-Op should issue a fatwah against foie gras or something? Can't you find the ambiance you're seeking in one of our neighbrohood's many fine pretentious restaurants and leave the rest of us the fuck alone?

alafairnadia wrote: er, I've wasted my life, folks.

and frankly, I wouldn't buy meat in any store in my nabe. I'm a snot that way. I wouldn't buy veg, either. my options for bklyn are green market, fairway or FD.

My dear,

You have not wasted your life. I see a highly evolved soul here (inspite of your over 4 thousand posts). It is no small trick having any life in the real world and posting that much in any forum.. I nod to flexichick with her numerous contributions.

I say what I have said with all sincerity. Many years ago (at least in the internet chronology) I started to post on a forum about Maltese dogs. I became the "most prolific poster"... I admit to thousands of informative yet completely egotistical postings. I continued my reality existence and many of thousands of "entries" in that world as well!!

meow meow whole foods has good tuna meow meow.

I don't understand the hostility. Why pick on FD because it kills ambiance??? If that is your concern, you should also complain about the garbage trucks, right? They're ugly and smelly, move slowly with lots of exhaust, and back up traffic all the time. Why not ask the city to use a different garbage collection system?

The truth is that everyone has a different way of managing his/her time to buy groceries. You may have your philosophical differences, but in practice it simply can't work for everybody. If I had my way I would always buy fresh and seasonal produce and meats raised on pasture from sustainable farms. But I don't have the time and energy to go to Green Market every weekend. And in fact I like my produce fresh, and not sitting in my fridge for a week. I honestly don't know ANY bodegas that have all the produce that I might want. But I shop at C-town on my way home every weeknight. I also sometimes go to the Italian store for pastas and sauces and Grab for cheese and cured meats. On weekends I go to Chinatown for fruits and produce I can only find there. And yet, I do use FD about once a month. Why? Because I go through nearly 10 half-gallon cartons of soy milk every month and I do not fancy carrying them home all the way from C-town. In fact FD has the cheapest price for it ($3.19 compared to usually $3.99 elsewhere).

great produce in the winter, cases of seltzer, and it's a local business, to boot.

Oiseau wrote: [quote=albertitto]I don't understand the hostility. Why pick on FD because it kills ambiance??? If that is your concern, you should also complain about the garbage trucks, right? They're ugly and smelly, move slowly with lots of exhaust, and back up traffic all the time. Why not ask the city to use a different garbage collection system?

So you're equating a public works truck with a private enterprise? There is the difference.

How exactly does food arrive to these magical family owned grocery stores? Certainly not by trucks that double park and idle.

Oiseau wrote: True, except those trucks are delivering food for a whole bunch of people, not just one household.

correct.
and wholesale deliveries turn off the engine while they unload, unless it's meat or dairy. FD is keeping your kitty litter and seltzer chilled as they run up and down your 4th Fl walk up stairs with your five half full boxes.

That said, I couldn't care less how you do your grocery shopping.
Just keep away from my Co-op if you're a lazy ass!

So do you get all your nutrition in the form of booze? If you don't shop, what do you eat?

Carnivore wrote: So do you get all your nutrition in the form of booze? If you don't shop, what do you eat?

Alec, what is lemon rind, green olives, and ciggiebutts?