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Chuck Yarborough learns respect for the shopping cart
Fix shopping carts, or use them to do crime? That is the question.
Bizarre behavior in the ‘Boro
“Food Lion employee Catherine M. Mosier was smoking a cigarette last Saturday outside the Lascassas Highway store when she noticed a man in his 60s ram a grocery cart into her 2004 Nissan two times, Officer Shondale Clark reported. ‘Hey, that’s my car,’ Mosier yelled at the man who is a regular customer. The man [...]
Thief Steals $1,200 In Baby Formula
Police said a man in Columbia managed to walk out of a grocery store with $1,200 worth of baby formula without being caught.
Supermarket Follies
“I am an anonymous cog on a very small wheel in the gigantic machine that is the UK retail sector. I work in an administrative capacity in the local outlet of a UK supermarket chain with national coverage and high (and positive) brand recognition. I work for and with fools, morons, cretins and idiots. Then [...]
Hearing set for shopping cart assault
An Aug. 20 felony hearing has been scheduled for a Dutchess County man accused of running a 72-year-old woman down with a shopping cart because she was taking too long in the checkout line.
Old people are angrier than any teenager you’ll ever meet
From the Orlando Sentinal’s reader gripes column: “I’m ticked off at the moron who designed the grocery carts that have those insipid little cars attached to the front so the kids can ride and pretend to drive. These carts are the equivalent of SUVs, and I’m even more ticked off at the ignorant mothers who [...]
The Weird Things People Eat Around the World
“Half the fun of traveling is getting out and enjoying all sorts of foods you’re not used to eating. A simple trip to the corner market or grocery store in a foreign land can keep you amused for hours. Take the example above for instance: Cone Pizza! This picture was snapped in Seoul, South Korea, [...]
Museum of Foreign Grocery Products
“These products subtly (or not-so-subtly) illustrate the ways in which another culture is different from ours, even in basic behaviors such as food prep.”
Husband eats 50-year-old chicken
“A man celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by eating a 50-year-old tin of chicken. Les and Beryl Lailey, of Denton, Gtr Manchester, were given the chicken in a hamper on their wedding day in 1956. The Buxted Chicken tin remained in their kitchen cupboard until the couple marked 50 years together this month. ‘We kept [...]
On the Edibility of Very Old Food
“The oldest of all edible foods might be a 5,600-year-old ear of popcorn that archeologists dug up in New Mexico in 1947 (though it may date back as little as 1,752 years). It still popped. More recently, researchers in Utah found 1,000-year-old popcorn that was still perfectly fluffy and delicious.”
Nailing jelly to a wall: Is it possible?
“We’ve all heard the old saying ‘it’s like nailing jelly to a wall’ to describe a task that is very difficult or impossible. But is our view of the difficulty of this task justified? Has anybody actually tried nailing jelly to a wall? In this experiment I attempt to establish, one way or the other, [...]
The Purloined Sirloin: Why is meat the most shoplifted item in America?
“Every supermarket detective–or ‘loss-prevention specialist,’ as many prefer to be called–has an offbeat meatlifting story to share. There’s the one about the lady who seemingly defied the laws of physics by stuffing an entire HoneyBaked Ham in her purse, the man discovered with a trove of filet mignons in his Jockey shorts, or the meth [...]
30 Days of Pork
“Amanda Kelso was a 12-year veteran of vegetarianism when she went AWOL. She blames pork. ‘Bacon was a temptress to me,’ she says in her 30 Days of Pork series on photo-sharing site Flickr.”
Amazon.com: Reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk
Having fun with milk and Amazon — check this out: As of today there are 868 reviews on Amazon.com for Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz. Must be the best milk ever!
3 arrested in shopping cart prank
“Police Tuesday announced the arrests of three people accused of hoisting a shopping cart atop a flagpole, which then fell and seriously injured a grocery store employee.”
List of grocery products that were commercial failures
One example: “Funky Fries | Introduced in 2002, Ore-Ida’s frozen french fries were offered in new forms: chocolate-flavored, cinnamon-flavored, ring-shaped and colored blue. Promoted as ‘not what a potato is supposed to be,’ they were — perhaps inevitably — pulled from store shelves a year later, due to ‘disappointing’ sales.”
Inventor of the Week: James Jacob Ritty
James Jacob Ritty, inventor of the first working version of a mechanical cash register, was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1837. Ritty was a barkeeper who opened his first saloon in 1871. In 1882 he opened the Pony House in Dayton, which quickly became a local ‘hotspot’ for dining, drinking, and gaming… One of the [...]
Cooking For Engineers: Cooking Tests: Bacon (Part I)
Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? Check out Cooking For Engineers… “Everyone’s got a favorite way of cooking bacon, but what’s the difference if I broil, fry, or microwave my bacon? Well, I tried to find out.”
