Friday, August 26, 2005
Hungry
Picking up where we last left off:
Creschale's - Salmon, baked potato w/all the trimmings, Greek salad, & Coke $17.00
Bop's Frozen Custard - large custard (unknown flavor) $5.00
Michelle and I had dinner Wednesday night at Creschale's as a celebration of completing Year One with several of my classmates. The impetus for selecting Creschale's was its complementary limousine service to parties of eight or more. A conservative estimate projects that nearly 1/2 of our weekly food budget was spent on that lone meal! Fortunately, we had stumbled across the E & B Discount Grocery earlier that afternoon. As I strolled up to the door, with my Birkenstocks kickin' up dust and all 32 teeth sparkling in the sun, I found myself thinking, "Wow, their clientele appears even more slatternly than Walmart's!" This, of course, is code for, "Damn, at long last, we may have found the grocery store for us!"
And damned if it wasn't the most beautiful store we had ever set foot in. (Not counting the dumpsters behind Whole Foods.) Yogurt for $0.25, Progresso Soups for $0.69, Nutri-Grain bars (10-pack) for $0.50, Meusli cereal boxes for $1.49, Near East Couscous for $0.69, etc. Interestingly enough, the items Michelle and I coveted most were after thoughts for most shoppers. As far as we could ascertain; lima beans, sliced okra, catfish, frozen french fries, New Orlean's style "dirty" rice, yellow squash, and beef make up 95% of the local diet.
Creschale's - Salmon, baked potato w/all the trimmings, Greek salad, & Coke $17.00
Bop's Frozen Custard - large custard (unknown flavor) $5.00
Michelle and I had dinner Wednesday night at Creschale's as a celebration of completing Year One with several of my classmates. The impetus for selecting Creschale's was its complementary limousine service to parties of eight or more. A conservative estimate projects that nearly 1/2 of our weekly food budget was spent on that lone meal! Fortunately, we had stumbled across the E & B Discount Grocery earlier that afternoon. As I strolled up to the door, with my Birkenstocks kickin' up dust and all 32 teeth sparkling in the sun, I found myself thinking, "Wow, their clientele appears even more slatternly than Walmart's!" This, of course, is code for, "Damn, at long last, we may have found the grocery store for us!"
And damned if it wasn't the most beautiful store we had ever set foot in. (Not counting the dumpsters behind Whole Foods.) Yogurt for $0.25, Progresso Soups for $0.69, Nutri-Grain bars (10-pack) for $0.50, Meusli cereal boxes for $1.49, Near East Couscous for $0.69, etc. Interestingly enough, the items Michelle and I coveted most were after thoughts for most shoppers. As far as we could ascertain; lima beans, sliced okra, catfish, frozen french fries, New Orlean's style "dirty" rice, yellow squash, and beef make up 95% of the local diet.
# posted by Jude : 4:23 PM
