Even Worse Grocery Stores

Thanks to a tip from the avid reader, I noticed this post in Gothamist about disgusting grocery stores. The problem with the report of the Dirty Dozen supermarkets is it doesn't tell me about the stores I go to!

Well, here's a short version.

Key Food and C-town are pretty clean.
Cat Pee smells like cat pee.
The other Cat Pee also smells like Cat Pee.

I think the first Cat Pee is a Compare Food and the second is an Associated.

I never noticed anything wrong with the Jesus vegetable store where I buy limes for dimes.

A Bad Grocery Store

There's a bad grocery store on East 14th St between 1st Ave and Ave A. I think it's an Associated. They don't have a good beer selection and the cashier was quite curt.

Some co-workers visited a grocery store in Astoria (A store ia!) and gave it rave reviews and said I should go in it. I didn't go in it though, so you'll have to take their word. It's between the Astoria Blvd stop of the N and the stop right before it.

I'm still buying limes for dimes. It's the best deal.

What kind of deal is that?

At my most recent visit to the Giant Eagle that used to be Festival Foods (I have no access to a Festival Foods anymore), I saw a weekly special sign for lobster tails. Then I looked at the lobster tails.

Too Busy to Post

I've been too busy at work to savor my grocery shopping lately, and without grocery shopping, I don't have things to post about. Last week seasoned fries were on sale for $2 and Axelrod sour cream was on sale for $1 at C-Town, but I never got around to buying some. Don't even ask me what's on sale this week. You're on your own.

Trader Joe's in Pittsburgh

No wine shop though.

It's moving in near Pittsburgh's only Whole Foods.

Ripped Off!

I should turn in my blog because I did some bad shopping today. At Key Food, Dr. Pepper is on sale for 2 liters for $1. You might think Diet Dr. Pepper is too, but you'd be wrong. I was wrong. (Catfish is on sale for $3.99/lb though, so that's dinner.)

I went to the Jesus vegetable store to buy asparagus to go with my catfish. It was $1.99/lb at Key Food, but I thought I remembered it being cheaper at the Jesus store. It didn't have a price this time, but I picked it up and bought it. I got 5 or 6 stalks for $2! At least I got a lime for a dime as well.

Price Chopper

So I finally went to Price Chopper, after having read so much about it here. I went with my brother, also named Grocery Chopin (we have weird parents), and we found a keeshka. They have a lot more kinds of braunschweiger there than then I can find in Brooklyn. The tomatoes were overpriced but the grating cheeses were about right. I didn't see any ginger beer worth buying.

Several Topics

This weekend I'm heading up to Troy, NY to visit a Price Chopper. I'm told it's the Publix of the Northeast.

Yesterday I walked into Key Food because I was hungry for egg salad and I knew it was $3.99/lb at C-Town. I figured it'd be comparably priced. I was wrong. $5.99! After that, I tried to find something else to put in my basket, but I couldn't find a thing. I was ruined.

I'm told that the Key Food in Park Slope is great because they place happy 80s songs and people bop.

Kennywood and Giant Eagle

Hmmm. My dad said he thinks he can buy tickets to Kennywood at Giant Eagle for $19 or so.

I had a dream last night that I wanted to wake up at 8:00am and go grocery shopping, but it was 9:30 already. So I woke up and it was a little after 8:00, so I did go grocery shopping. But not until about 9:30. I went to C-Town first. The sales did not impress me. I got a pork roast, which I'm going to make for dinner. There were no frozen pizzas at all on sale. I spent about $14. The previous three times I have gone grocery shopping, I spent somewhere between $13 and $14. I'm pretty consistent.

I went to Key Food after I stopped at home to get my free Coffee Mate. I got the amaretto flavor. I like it. I went to the Jesus vegetable store on the way back to get vegetables to cook with my pork roast. The vegetables are cheap and look good. For a while they weren't as cheap as Key Food and looked gross. I got carrots ($0.50), radishes ($1), mushrooms ($1), and scallions ($0.25). The quantities were "more than I'll need" for all of them.

I don't even know how to cook pork. I didn't know how to cook French toast or bacon either, but that's what I made for breakfast.

Free Coffee-mate!

I haven't updated very much recently because I've worked long hours at work and the deals at C-Town have been awful. I paid full price for a 2-liter bottle of Tropicana Orangeade! (I mixed it with Trader Joe's 3 Buck Chuck Merlot and had a delicious concoction.)

The other day I was at Key Food and when I paid, the cashier printed out coupons. One is for a free thing of Coffee-mate! I can't wait to pick it up.

Trader Joe's posted which credit cards it accepts now: Visa, Mastercard, and Discover. No Diner's Club.

Good Lady

She's smart.