Lady with young daughter at schnucks

[cards2468]

Best advice I've heard about grocery shopping: buy primarily from the outer perimeter of the store. The outer perimeter typically consists of fresh produce, deli, and some dairy. Inner isles typically have a juice isle, potato chip isle, food packed with preservatives isle, and plenty of corn syrup and artificial sweetener. Even "healthy" food you have to watch, it's amazing how many yogurts out there that are labeled as "health food" are packed with corn syrup.

Maybe you read it here.

May have read it there, but I know the 1st time I heard it was from my mother who has worked in the field for a long time

[lukethedrifter]

Best advice I've heard about grocery shopping: buy primarily from the outer perimeter of the store. The outer perimeter typically consists of fresh produce, deli, and some dairy. Inner isles typically have a juice isle, potato chip isle, food packed with preservatives isle, and plenty of corn syrup and artificial sweetener. Even "healthy" food you have to watch, it's amazing how many yogurts out there that are labeled as "health food" are packed with corn syrup.

Maybe you read it here.

May have read it there, but I know the 1st time I heard it was from my mother who has worked in the field for a long time

Your mom's a smart woman.

[Radio_Bugtussle]

potato chip isle, food packed with preservatives isle, and plenty of corn syrup and artificial sweetener. .

Known in my family as the big arse in a bag aisle.

[heyzeus]

I hope you don't mind if I latch on to your rant, Doc, but I had a somewhat similar situation on Friday that needs some rantin'.

So I'm at a restaurant bar with a nice outdoor patio with two of my friends. I'm oblivious to the 4 year old girl at the table next to us, who is playing with the little pebbles that line the patio.

And then it hits, like hail from above. A rain of rocks hit me in the face and cover our table (and one went in my beer). I look over, and the little girl is standing there staring like an idiot. She obviously just accidentally threw the rocks in my face. She ran crying to her chimney/hag of a mom/grandma.

Now, I don't need an apology from an infant. But if this was your kid, don't you think a simple apology would be in order? Of course I didn't get one. The hag was too busy smoking and talking to her friends and ignoring the little girl. I was tempted to do something nasty, but it wouldn't have made me feel any better, and I was enjoying my friends' company too much to walk over and dump some rocks in some old bat's drink.

[cardinalkarp]

If I was one of your friends at the table heyzeus and my beer wasn't affected I might have had to laugh.

Of course you're story would've been better if you went and confronted the smoker hag of a woman that was supposed to be supervising the little girl.

[Leroy]

Kick the little bastards and get on with your life.

[cards2468]

I hope you don't mind if I latch on to your rant, Doc, but I had a somewhat similar situation on Friday that needs some rantin'.

So I'm at a restaurant bar with a nice outdoor patio with two of my friends. I'm oblivious to the 4 year old girl at the table next to us, who is playing with the little pebbles that line the patio.

And then it hits, like hail from above. A rain of rocks hit me in the face and cover our table (and one went in my beer). I look over, and the little girl is standing there staring like an idiot. She obviously just accidentally threw the rocks in my face. She ran crying to her chimney/hag of a mom/grandma.

Now, I don't need an apology from an infant. But if this was your kid, don't you think a simple apology would be in order? Of course I didn't get one. The hag was too busy smoking and talking to her friends and ignoring the little girl. I was tempted to do something nasty, but it wouldn't have made me feel any better, and I was enjoying my friends' company too much to walk over and dump some rocks in some old bat's drink.

so many [expletive] parents out there.

on 1 occasion I was working in the footwear department at dick's and a toddler in their cart threw up and it was all over the side of the cart and the floor below it. being the good worker, I went to get a mop, but it was not to be found, so instead I used paper towels and got on all 4's with cleaner and some anti-bacterial spray. all the while the parents completely ignore that their kid threw up. they keep looking at shoes while their kid is screaming and crying, and judging by how much came up and the consistency of it, I would guess the child was a little sick. they didn't even move their damn cart, they left 1 wheel in the middle of the puddle and I just had to clean around it and on the cart. no thank you, no nothing. didn't even acknowledge that I was there.

[UK]

Interesting, I never thought how a grocery store is laid out but you are right.

I'm sure obesity is increasing all over the world, but it's nowhere close to what we are. It didn't really hit me how fat Americans are until I went to Europe.

This is definitely true, the couple of times I've been overseas I noticed a much more healthy society (mostly in Austria).

[Arthur Dent]

on 1 occasion I was working in the footwear department at dick's and a toddler in their cart threw up and it was all over the side of the cart and the floor below it. being the good worker, I went to get a mop, but it was not to be found, so instead I used paper towels and got on all 4's with cleaner and some anti-bacterial spray. all the while the parents completely ignore that their kid threw up. they keep looking at shoes while their kid is screaming and crying, and judging by how much came up and the consistency of it, I would guess the child was a little sick. they didn't even move their damn cart, they left 1 wheel in the middle of the puddle and I just had to clean around it and on the cart. no thank you, no nothing. didn't even acknowledge that I was there.

I hope you at least made a really cutting sarcastic remark.

[jim]

Interesting, I never thought how a grocery store is laid out but you are right.

I'm sure obesity is increasing all over the world, but it's nowhere close to what we are. It didn't really hit me how fat Americans are until I went to Europe.

This is definitely true, the couple of times I've been overseas I noticed a much more healthy society (mostly in Austria).

I honestly don't remember EVER seeing an obese person there that wasn't American.