Whole Foods Market... geeze, I hate that place

[scubamountaingirl]

ummmm yummmm as i eat my TOFU DOG WITH LOTS OF HOT MUSTARD AND KRAUT....

well someone had to stick up for tofu...

whole foods has to be the most expensive market in history...it reminds me of that movie Baby Boom where Dianne Keton makes this "wholefoods applesauce" cause she is bored and some city yuppies come in and as they oooohhh and aaahhh over it she keeps raising the price....

stop bashing vegetarians or i am coming to git you all. been a veg for 40yrs.

and just so the mods know this is about diving, it gives me all the strength and vigor i need to put on my rig....

[DaveS]

Joel,

If it isn't spinning up, before you spend good diving dollars on computer repair, try some sharply applied percussive maintenance. A good quick rap or two along a long edge with a piece of wood or a rubber mallet (I like the wood better) might break whatever is locked up free. Or the often successful desktop slam. Just trying to jar things loose - not destroy it. If it works - great, if it doesn't, I've never had it damage things to the point that the data recovery folks had a problem.

[TobinGeorge]

Joel,

If it isn't spinning up, before you spend good diving dollars on computer repair, try some sharply applied percussive maintenance. A good quick rap or two along a long edge with a piece of wood or a rubber mallet (I like the wood better) might break whatever is locked up free. Or the often successful desktop slam. Just trying to jar things loose - not destroy it. If it works - great, if it doesn't, I've never had it damage things to the point that the data recovery folks had a problem.

I have some 10+ year old macs that I boot maybe once or twice a year. More often than not they need a "smack" to spin up.

Tobin

[LCF]

See, I hate Whole Foods, but for a totally different reason. I got paralyzed in the cheese section, the first time I went in there.

Now I can cope with choices, if they come in reasonable numbers. I can master temptation, to a point. But the cheese section of Whole Foods made me feel like the girl in The Exorcist, with my head spinning completely around on its axis. There were cheese there I'd never heard of, and cheese I had heard of but now there were eighteen different brands from different countries. There were hard cheeses and soft cheeses and flavored cheeses and cow cheeses and goat cheeses . . . Eventually, I was reduced to a powerless, whimpering lump, and I slithered back out of the store.

I've never gone back. The cheeses defeated me.

[orange_diver]

i like to call it Whole Paycheck...

[Mo2vation]

Wendy

Got no problem with you veggies. Truth be told, I eat Veggie probably 15 or 16 meals a week. It wouldn't take much for me to veg out 100%.

Last night was polenta lasagne and a big salad. Yum.

But c'mon - at Whole foods they can't sell veggies. They have to sell certified, organic, grown-by-a-guy-in-a-beard (in e-grade O2-clean soil, tested quarterly for purity) sustainable, communally run (read: not too much profit, gawd forbid) cruelty-free, often flavor free, additive free, preservative free, hydrocarbon free, environmentally sound, socially sound, did-you-hear-that-sound vegetables sold to you by the tiny, silent, young, groovy, never smile, no make up, covered ankle to chin (oh, also cleavage-free... can't forget that one), face-pierced unibrow check-out chicks.

No probles with veggies. Big problem with veggies wrapped in all that BS.

Tofu? Where would a good miso soup be without it? Again, I say yum.

Lynne just made my morning with "The cheeses defeated me."

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Ken

[John_B]

Geez, Ken, we even have Whole Foods here in flyover country!

As a former NorCal resident (including greater Santa Cruz) you should know that WF is the corporate version; if that bothers you, then you should see the small mom-and-pop versions of what some people call "granola shops".

BTW, there are just some things that require a trip to WF. My banana bread recipe calls for oat flour, and anything I make that calls for chicken broth or stock (including my risotto) gets the low sodium version so I can control the amount of salt and how/when its added. Some stuff you just aren't going to find at the "normal" grocery chains.

Oh, and my WF has some really luscious USDA Choice beef cuts in their meat department (and that's saying something, coming from beef country) -- if you've got the coin to pay for it. I buy it sometimes for special occasions. But then they go off the "deep end" and quit selling live lobsters (er, except in Maine) and electrocute the ones they cook since boiling them alive is apparently "inhumane". You can get whiplash trying to follow their logic some days.

[scubamountaingirl]

Wendy

Got no problem with you veggies. Truth be told, I eat Veggie probably 15 or 16 meals a week. It wouldn't take much for me to veg out 100%.

Last night was polenta lasagne and a big salad. Yum.

But c'mon - at Whole foods they can't sell veggies. They have to sell certified, organic, grown-by-a-guy-in-a-beard (in e-grade O2-clean soil, tested quarterly for purity) sustainable, communally run (read: not too much profit, gawd forbid) cruelty-free, often flavor free, additive free, preservative free, hydrocarbon free, environmentally sound, socially sound, did-you-hear-that-sound vegetables sold to you by the tiny, silent, young, groovy, never smile, no make up, covered ankle to chin (oh, also cleavage-free... can't forget that one), face-pierced unibrow check-out chicks.

No probles with veggies. Big problem with veggies wrapped in all that BS.

Tofu? Where would a good miso soup be without it? Again, I say yum.

Lynne just made my morning with "The cheeses defeated me."

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Ken

Right on ken, I just foolin with ya...and the cheese section. yep...turn around out the door ....there is a cheese from MOCAL that i dream about...but that is another thread...

I am surprised we have kept this one up as long as we have....LOL

[JS1scuba]

I have some 10+ year old macs that I boot maybe once or twice a year. More often than not they need a "smack" to spin up.

Tobin

Hi Tobin, I am considering the method used by Russian Hero Astronauts

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Lev : (to Watts) WE HAVE JUST THE SAME SHIT PART IN RUSSIA!! SOMETIMES IT NOT WORK SO WE HIT!! YOU GOTTA GIVE IT WHACK!! WHACK!! HIT!!
Watts : WHAT!!?
Lev : GIVE IT WHACK!!

Lev grab a wrench and goes ballistic. SMASHES it down on the component, AGAIN
and AGAIN and AGAIN. We hear JET FUEL COURSE through the component and --

-- SHARP hits the IGNITION SWITCH and the THRUSTERS FIRE.
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IF a little Wack does not work then I will try a SMACK, if that does not work i will send it out ........


Oh, and instead of Etouffe' today I will make some healthy potstickers .... as for Tofu ..... it reminds me of the SPONGE. Ewwwwww

Cheers
JDS

[scubamountaingirl]

Oh, and instead of Etouffe' today I will make some healthy potstickers .... as for Tofu ..... it reminds me of the SPONGE. Ewwwwww

Cheers
JDS

you just wait till I HAVE COOKED YOU SOME TOFU...I will change your mind forever...no sponge...yummmm

whack it once for me...
wendy

[JS1scuba]

That means shopping at these groovy places with these berkenstock wearing, hemp fiber sporting, organic baby food feeding, hairy leg hybrid driving chicks who frequent the places that sell the stuff I eat.

When i did a stretch in Boulder I was introduced to "Whole Foods" talk about treehugging, boob tossing, soy-milk fed, hemp smoking,, touchy feely folks spending $5 for a carrot.

I put a small sign in the back of my truck window that said.


Vegetarian is an old Native American word that means
BAD HUNTER


I'm all for eating well and working out. I do it. But the touchy feely tree hugging Kumbaya eating thing just does not work (for me).

Pizza stains on a Doria T works.
Prix Fix at Craft in NYC works.
Nathan's in Coney Island works.
Tofu in Cali dont.

[Stryker1775]

I'm with you Joel.

All that whole foods talk was killing my appetite.

Now it's time for some Pizza.

Which helps me plan my dives...

[Mo2vation]

We're moving this comedy inside, out of the gym and into the bar where it belongs.

Lynne being flummoxed by the cheese aisle at Whole Foods and Wendy's Tofu love stays here.

Photo Posting, Pizza, New York, Dead Chickens & Hottie Vegetarians is in the link to the left, which has been moved to the Dive Bar.

Not a patron or member of the Dive Bar? Its not hard to get in, so long as Vinnie likes your shoes.


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Ken

[ligersandtions]

How do you get into this Dive Bar? Guess Vinnie doesn't like my shoes....

[Codyjp]

How do you get into this Dive Bar? Guess Vinnie doesn't like my shoes....

Vinnie is from New Yawk, you better bribe him with some CPK BBQ Chicken Pizza!