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November 5, 2003
PS COOP: LESSON #1
Or, things the orientation failed to mention.
Callalillie was elated that her first trip to the PS Coop brought such a cost effective yield. After getting over the fact that there was not a pork chop in sight (which I'd originally planned to cook for a nice din-din with JieMonster), I happy danced down the isles upon realizing that flour, tarragon, cloves, nutmeg, and dried apple rings would amount to little over $3.00. My most expensive item was organic chicken breast. My entire purchase was going to be under $30 which, at D'Agostino's, would normally have cost over $40.
The line snaked around the checkout counter. I shirked my innate distaste for waiting, as I'd figured before hand that there'd be time spent on a line. I listed to a man in front of me, inarguably one of the characters from Karpf's GM meditations, complain non-stop about the lack of credit cards, the lengthy wait for his minimal purchase of some sort of pie. I people watched. Then, with only one person between me and freedom, I suddenly realized that everyone else had their produce packed in bags.
I was on the wrong mofo line.
Unbeknownst to me, there are actually three stops before one can happily trot home, Coop goodies in tow. I had failed to get my items checked out, step #1. Once I corrected this error, I had to get back on line, which now was longer and more snake-like, to pay.
I couldn't help but think that this was an incredibly dumb system...but tried to be a trooper and chalked it up to me not reading the 50-paged manual given to me the night before. How silly I am.
In all, I did manage to cook a pretty good dinner. The rosemary chicken with goat cheese chicken was pretty yummy...and I now must bow my head and admit, after many years of rolling my eyes, that yes, organic chicken does taste better.
Posted by callalillie at November 5, 2003 9:13 AM | Food
, Life in the Slope
Plus, the organic chicken has the added bonus of piece of mind. Knowing that the chickens were raised herbivoires, as nature intended, antibiotic free, etc.
Posted by: dahl at November 5, 2003 11:38 AM
wait, do they have woodies at the co-op?
Posted by: tien at November 5, 2003 2:16 PM
True. Although when I think too much about what the chickens were doing and how they were raised, I start to feel guilty for eating them.
Hmm...woodies at the Coop. Not the candy kind, I don't think.
Posted by: callalillie at November 5, 2003 2:47 PM
Posted by: Josh Karpf at November 6, 2003 9:20 PM
