Everyone has a rant in them and here is mine because I can bitch about anything in exhaustive detail.
The Offenders:
- Inconvenient Shops
- Moldy Bread
- My Boyfriend
- His Mother
Organic bread. Hm. I don’t really care about organic. I care about whether or not it tastes good. Which is why I began to buy Bread Alone, maker of French Sourdough and Organic Mixed Grains. It’s delicious stuff.
I have an inconvenient shopping experience in my neighborhood with only 2 sub par groceries within walking distance from my house.When I say walking distance some of you car people may gag:12 blocks there and back for the “good” sub par market and 6 blocks there and back for the “bad” sub par market. So I try to buy more than one days worth of groceries at a time knowing I’ll just have to hike out to the store every 3 days or so if I don’t.
Both stores have been challenged by the gentrification that is rapidly happening in this neighborhood. But only the “good” market seems to be making any concessions or upgrades for the organic loving demographic that gentrification has brought and amongst other improvements they began to stock Bread Alone bread products.
At first, 3.99 for one bag of sliced bread seemed pretty steep. But it tasted really great so I kept buying it. I mostly stuck to the sourdough even though not eveyone here likes it.Then I noticed Organic Mixed Grains which I bought and 2 days later was moldy.The price went up,too. 4.29 down the drain. Organic Moldy Grains is more like it.
I thought it might be fluke of old stock so I asked when they stocked the fresh bags and bought on that day, instead. 2 days later moldy again-this time I hadn’t even had a chance to eat one slice. I had to throw out an entire loaf of fancy yuppie bread.
I’ve concluded it isn’t the grocery’s fault.It’s the nature of organic bread. Regular bread must be irradiated or something because it NEVER molds in 2 days. But regular bread isn’t really bread, it is sugar and white flour and malt syrup and chemicals and I haven’t bought it in 4 years.
So far in the last 2 weeks we have been able to eat about 5 slices of bread before 2 whole bags got moldy.
My Solution?
I’ve got a few options. I can order only from freshdirect.com. I can buy a car. I can bake my own bread. I suppose this rant is more against life, or my life or the tiresome need to eat all the time. I like to eat but sometimes it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
It’s expensive. It’s repetitive. And it makes the kitchen dirty.
When my boyfriend and I moved to this area both of us were spoiled by our former neighborhoods, chockfull of amenities as they were, so we made a pact that we would both cook like devils rather than order in all the time. Unfortunately our pact fell short of designating who would clean up afterwards. Logic would say that one cooks the other cleans up. But my BF doesn’t agree with Logic. And he also thinks I should make him coffee as well as clean up after his kitchen blitz.
My Conclusion:
Since we were just in Israel, staying with his parents this time, I got to witness firsthand the division of labour between his parents. Mom works full time,does the shopping, the cooking and the cleanup afterwards while the rest sit around like bloated ticks. I tried to help clear the table and she said to stop it.