Who in the hell would buy that???

[susandennis]

Overheard at the grocery store this morning just before I grabbed some myself... "Who in the hell would buy that? How hard is it to slice a damn apple?? And they have to be so full of preservatives, you'd get cancer in a week."

They were talking about fresh sliced apple in a bag.  I love 'em.  This is, in fact, my favorite snack.  Precut apples, precut cheese in a paper bowl.  I do use the same bowl over and over again.  I am sure the apple slices are full of preservatives and I'm very grateful. 1. It makes the apples last longer - they stay the same color and crispness for about a week (they may keep fresh longer but they are all gone by then) and 2. Maybe some of those preservatives will work on me!




Yep, I can slice an apple and yes, I can slice cheese. Would I do it every day for a snack?  Nope. I can never pick good tasting apples at the store and slicing is a PIA. So, come snack time, I'd grab a candy bar or a handful of M&M's. I think this is possibly better for me and, actually more tasty.

Soooooo Mom's with strollers blocking the aisle while you judge people in produce, I buy that! So get the fuck out of my way.

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Another of my favorite hole-in-the-wall places to eat in Seattle has closed. Catfish Corner was the place my Mom always wanted to go to first whenever she visited. Even my New Zealand friends requested a stop there when they came to town. And now... it is no more.

Years ago, they had the very best peach cobbler outside of the southeastern United States. There peach cobbler was seriously delicious. You could get it with ice cream - and who wouldn't??

Then one time I went in for dinner and there was no peach cobbler on the menu. What? What's with the no peach cobbler, I asked. "Well, our Gran always made it and she passed and didn't leave the recipe."

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News today is that Weyerhaeuser is moving their 900 people headquarters to this neighborhood.  It sounds like they are building a new building in one of our few remaining parking lots.  Wild. When I moved here 22 years ago, this neighborhood was known for bars where you pick up chicks and/or get knifed. Then the dot coms moved in and it was geek heaven. Then the dot com balloon burst and a bunch of retail moved out it was a ghost town. Then last year it started coming back. New apartment/condos quadrupled  the number of residences, 40 gillion new, hip restaurants opened and business started moving in. Now we're building new buildings to accommodate more. Wild. And, kinda fun.

Comments

Mmmm, maybe not.

[notdefined.livejournal.com]

I've had the apples in a bag before and if you read the bag, at least the ones I got, it contained apples.....period! Granted, there is probably some sort of residual pesticide, but no more than the ones you would get out of the bin, or from Pike Place market. That is, of course, unless you buy only organic. My issue is the same with them that it is most of the current variety of the round gems that come from the market, they have most of the lip smacking, mouth watering flavor bred out of them. I can't wait until my trees are overburdened with abundant fruit so I'll not have to go to the market again for apples. I even have a couple beloved winesap trees, my favorite pie apple and gravenstein the elusive and easily damaged applesauce apple that has a rabid following in Northern California.

Weyerhaeuser can't seem to make up it's mind where it wants to live. They used to be down here with a fairly large mill and work force, then they abruptly pulled up stakes and moved leaving a horrendous amount of unemployed workers who promptly picked up and went elsewhere. Those that were left found other ways to survive, but Pacific County and Naselle, in particular, lost over 75% of their population. Houses were abandoned and their carcasses can still be seen along the highway. The company will survive, obviously, but their dedication to the local and the people that take care of them seems to be a mite lacking.

Sorry to hear about your loss of yet another eatery. That is something that doesn't happen to often around here, possibly because we only have a single restaurant, a cafe and a part time, open whenever they get around to it, diner.

the apples

[henare.livejournal.com]

i read the ingredients on mine and it's ... apples, along with citric acid (which has been used to keep apples from browning forever). it's totally natural, and i love them. (and yes, there are days i wonder "am i really that lazy?" ... and then i open the bag and nom on some apple slices).

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

THIS is why people have to nail down their Grans and demand recipes.

[cienna2000.livejournal.com]

I buy those apples too. Some how when they treat the apples with citric acid (natural), they do not turn brown. As many a mother everywhere can attest, kids do not like brown apples in their lunches. My kid cannot have unsliced apples for the next who knows how many months until her braces are gone. Presliced apples make it easier to pack a healthy lunch. Judgy McJudgersons can just not buy them if they do not want to.

[kyrielle]

I _love_ those apple slices. For, well, the same reason you do. I'm busy for time and there are dozens of less-healthy things I can - and in my experience will - grab and eat if I have to slice the apple, yes.

If the person shopping wants to slice the apple, good for them. But there's no call to comment judgily at those of us who are getting it pre-sliced so we'll EAT the apple.

[kittymistress.livejournal.com]

Funny to see you mention Weyerhaeuser--I used to work for them until they made my job redundant and dumped me just weeks short of my 25th anniversary year. I was so close to that diamond pendant instead I was rewarded by being on the unemployment line trying to find work at the ripe old age of 53.