More crazy kids (wait kids are more well behaved than these “things” posing as people)

Here’s one good impostor description to watch out for, or two, or three… oh just read!
Tall, 50’s, grouch, mustache guy: “I don’t care how you do it, just do it!”
Alrighty then. This guy wanted to sample salad on a plate and didn’t specify salad bar or deli case salads. This was specifically in [...]

5 weirdo thingys about mio

This post was a dare or rather a tag from Kya:
“The first player of this game starts with the topic ‘five weird habits of yourself,’ and people who get tagged need to write an entry about their five weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the [...]

Give it up

Many nasty tricks are used by Food Giants to make you overeat. Adding lots of fat, sugar and salt are obvious ones. They know that if they add enough fat, sugar and salt Americans will eat almost anything — George Bush’s favorite pig-out food — pork rinds [(George Bush senior not junior, the [...]

More Crap

Customer Corrections:
First:
Customer: “Can I have a half of an 8 oz container of this __________?”
Me: “Sure.”
Customer: “I thought that would be half a pound (8 oz).”
Me: “No, the 8 oz refers to fluid ounces, and every item has a different weight regardless.”
Second:
Customer: I want a half of a small of this.”
Me: “Alright,”
Customer: “Stop, I only [...]

Trader Joe’s

No I’m not talking about Potter-Joe, for those in the know.
Apparently St. Louis Park, a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis, will have one of the largest Trader Joe’s in the US and it’s set to open May 19th, 2006. Kya and I fell in love with this place on our first visit to a location [...]

Hold on there!

Kya: “Oh my god! Nate!”
Me: (This is what I get woken up to. Not a, “Good mornin’ hon’, you sleep well?” Okay, no Kya doesn’t do that anyway, so here I’m thinking to myself in my non-drunken (okay I did have a half shot of amaretto last night, doesn’t count though) sleepy stupor, just [...]

TheFutureofFood

TheFutureofFood
Originally uploaded by Elmoisamonster.
Check out the website listed at the bottom of my last entry for information about this DVD. Rent or buy it and then pass on what you learn.

What are you eating today?

Hold on now! Don’t eat that or drink that thing in your hand before you read this!
Recently I viewed the movie The Future of Food by Deborah Koons Garcia (presented by Lily Films).
It described how GE and GMO (Genetically Engineered and Genetically modified Organisms respectively) products are unfortunately becoming a mainstay in our breakfasts, [...]

Another installment of the crazies

An Ode to the Crazy (think they’re a Czar) Customer:
This one (shorter version of my manager, in terms of looks) is trying to find organic cheddar cheese, right. So I point them out and she recognizes one of the brands and states, “Oh, the packaging changed.” I continue on and then I get [...]

Wanna be driven crazy?

Come work at my co-op, or for that matter anywhere that customer service comes into play. Lets look at some of the highlights (no, not the magazine that we read as kids and did those puzzles and racked our brain on the find-the-difference-games) from my time in this current position thus far, shall we?
The [...]