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10 hours ago, safe sex said:

I fucking love going to grocery stores too. When I travel I always make a point to go to at least a couple of local stores just to browse (and buy snacks)

Me too. My older daughter is the same way- we even do it on vacation.

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As stupid and easily distracted as this country is, we might as well settle the shutdown via an all members of Congress Royal Rumble on the White House Lawn.  No holds barred.

Last person standing's party wins and gets whatever the fuck these dipshits are "fighting" over.

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29 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

As stupid and easily distracted as this country is, we might as well settle the shutdown via an all members of Congress Royal Rumble on the White House Lawn.  No holds barred.

Last person standing's party wins and gets whatever the fuck these dipshits are "fighting" over.

This post is fucking stupid.  Now if you added it was a steel cage royal rumble then it would make total sense. 

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54 minutes ago, Underdog said:

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Shockingly, the one thing the do well there is off the rack tuxedos. Or maybe they just happen to fit me perfectly. 

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Me too. My older daughter is the same way- we even do it on vacation.
100%.  Checking out local grocery stores is a whole thing for us.  Gives you a real snapshot into local culture and life.

Some amusement from Finland, for example:

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Since this is now the grocery store thread, I've visited a friend in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana several times, and always got a kick out of shopping at the local store and seeing things like squirrel, rabbit, and alligator in the meat section.  

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

100%.  Checking out local grocery stores is a whole thing for us.  Gives you a real snapshot into local culture and life.

Some amusement from Finland, for example:

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lol Finland was one place where I could consistently buy things in the grocery store that upon eating turned out to be something completely different than I had thought (and I actually know a few words in Finnish). It was fun.

I love my Pingo Doce grocery store in Portugal - food quality is so much better than here, although it took a while to get used to shelf-stable milk and eggs.

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4 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

lol Finland was one place where I could consistently buy things in the grocery store that upon eating turned out to be something completely different than I had thought (and I actually know a few words in Finnish). It was fun.

I love my Pingo Doce grocery store in Portugal - food quality is so much better than here, although it took a while to get used to shelf-stable milk and eggs.

First time I went shopping in the UK, I wandered the Sainsbury for 15 minutes looking for eggs.  Finally gave up and asked.  They were sitting on the room-temp endcap right next to me.

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24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

First time I went shopping in the UK, I wandered the Sainsbury for 15 minutes looking for eggs.  Finally gave up and asked.  They were sitting on the room-temp endcap right next to me.

I did the same thing looking beer in Vancouver this summer. Not for sale in the grocery store and had to go to a liquor store.

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1 minute ago, Iceman said:

Mexikansk beans & rice? in Scandinavia?  LOLz.

That's genuinely one of our amusing side notes when we travel, esp. to northern europe: any of their takes on mexican or Texas food.  It's usually.....quite sad and funny.

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10 hours ago, safe sex said:

You haven't lived until you've been the highest person in a Whole Foods walking around the produce section

Living in downtown Chicago and Miami I can tell you that’s a high bar.  Pardon the pun.  But damn, you’d have to be stoned like a gravel road.  

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2 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

This post is fucking stupid.  Now if you added it was a steel cage royal rumble then it would make total sense. 

 

Oh, don't you worry.  Next summer:

 

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

My daughter brought me these from the grocery store she visited in Latvia. Long Chips are kind of like Pringles, but long.

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Central Market has a different brand of those, but with boring flavors. I think they're French. P good but not worth it unless on sale. 

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56 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Living in downtown Chicago and Miami I can tell you that’s a high bar.  Pardon the pun.  But damn, you’d have to be stoned like a gravel road.  

The rough and tumble crowd of Victoria, BC, has a different vibe, ok?

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

My daughter brought me these from the grocery store she visited in Latvia. Long Chips are kind of like Pringles, but long.

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Long pig product? No thanks.

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2 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

This post is fucking stupid.  Now if you added it was a steel cage royal rumble then it would make total sense. 

I was going to add steel cage, but I don't think we got a steel cage big enough.

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2 hours ago, Da Fino said:

Shockingly, the one thing the do well there is off the rack tuxedos. Or maybe they just happen to fit me perfectly. 

Are you saying you're a bit short and dumpy?

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11 hours ago, safe sex said:

You haven't lived until you've been the highest person in a Whole Foods walking around the produce section

That seems like a good way to end up with $80 worth of persimmons. 

Do that at Trader Joes and you'll just end up spending $50 to get diabetes.  

 

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3 hours ago, Da Fino said:

Shockingly, the one thing the do well there is off the rack tuxedos. Or maybe they just happen to fit me perfectly. 

Are you a LEGO man? You have to tell us if you're a LEGO man.

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3 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

As stupid and easily distracted as this country is, we might as well settle the shutdown via an all members of Congress Royal Rumble on the White House Lawn.  No holds barred.

Last person standing's party wins and gets whatever the fuck these dipshits are "fighting" over.

I’d bet heavy on MTG to come out the winner.

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Dumb question amnesty - I am fairly unplugged and just trying to survive my own life, why is it that republicans aren’t doing the nuclear option here? It seems like democrats want them to do this? Why?

 

again from my “no news from the tv and mostly unplugged since last years election” vantage point, the snap thing is coming up a lot a lot. People are getting ready for the pain.

 

Also, I like to get reusable bags from random grocery stores to use at home. My favorite is from some store in Frankfurt with a bunch of scary looking German words on it. I occasionally get questioned by British people with my Morrisons bag.

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1 minute ago, Celery Man said:

Dumb question amnesty - I am fairly unplugged and just trying to survive my own life, why is it that republicans aren’t doing the nuclear option here? It seems like democrats want them to do this? Why?

 

GOP doesn't want to use the nuclear option, because the big beautiful bill fucking sucks and is going to cause a lot of pain and they want the Dems to share the blame. The Dems want them to use it because they don't want to be associated with the shit that's coming, especially in regards to the ACA 

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15 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Dumb question amnesty - I am fairly unplugged and just trying to survive my own life, why is it that republicans aren’t doing the nuclear option here? It seems like democrats want them to do this? Why?

The most common theory is that they don't want to get blamed for the loss of the ACA subsidies.  I don't really buy that though.  1) they already voted for the loss of the subsidies, 2) I think they would be willing to negotiate on the subsidies if they really feared the public backlash.  My guess is they want something to separate them from Trump's whims.  If they nuke the filibuster, then they are the only thing between Trump and new law.  If tomorrow, Trump says he wants to wants to build a 1000 meter Colossus in his likeness, they want the Democrats to prevent it from happening rather than telling Trump no.  Once the Democrats are removed from the equation, they know Trump will become more demanding.  Now, maybe that was a lesson-learned from they way the Big Beautiful Bill was handled to avoid the filibuster, which is how the subsidies were removed, but I don't think there is any attempt to avoid the ACA subsidy removal.  

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3 hours ago, South Austin said:

Since this is now the grocery store thread, I've visited a friend in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana several times, and always got a kick out of shopping at the local store and seeing things like squirrel, rabbit, and alligator in the meat section.  

 

sonnier's boudin in lake charles, highly recommend 

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29 minutes ago, Tuco said:

My guess is they want something to separate them from Trump's whims.  If they nuke the filibuster, then they are the only thing between Trump and new law.  If tomorrow, Trump says he wants to wants to build a 1000 meter Colossus in his likeness, they want the Democrats to prevent it from happening rather than telling Trump no.  Once the Democrats are removed from the equation, they know Trump will become more demanding.

I was going to respond with “they don’t have 51 votes”,  though yours is likely closer to the truth.

 

They are better insulated from their constituents and/or from needing a Trump endorsement in future elections, and presume they still hold some power over Trump.

 

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1 hour ago, Tuco said:

That seems like a good way to end up with $80 worth of persimmons. 

Do that at Trader Joes and you'll just end up spending $50 to get diabetes.  

 

Lightweight.

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1 hour ago, Tuco said:

The most common theory is that they don't want to get blamed for the loss of the ACA subsidies.  I don't really buy that though.  1) they already voted for the loss of the subsidies, 2) I think they would be willing to negotiate on the subsidies if they really feared the public backlash.  My guess is they want something to separate them from Trump's whims.  If they nuke the filibuster, then they are the only thing between Trump and new law.  If tomorrow, Trump says he wants to wants to build a 1000 meter Colossus in his likeness, they want the Democrats to prevent it from happening rather than telling Trump no.  Once the Democrats are removed from the equation, they know Trump will become more demanding.  Now, maybe that was a lesson-learned from they way the Big Beautiful Bill was handled to avoid the filibuster, which is how the subsidies were removed, but I don't think there is any attempt to avoid the ACA subsidy removal.  

Doesn’t really make sense because they nuked the filibuster six weeks ago. Trump likely knows that. So nuking the filibuster here isn’t really any different.

 

It doesn’t seem like Trump really cares about reopening the government.

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1. trump is being told that blaming the dems is working

2. trump doesn't give a fuck who or how many are suffering 

3. he'll blame senate R's in a heart beat to save his skin 

 

dems need to keep calling all this the trump shutdown. media would never repeat that but it'll get under trump's skin 

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2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Dumb question amnesty - I am fairly unplugged and just trying to survive my own life, why is it that republicans aren’t doing the nuclear option here? It seems like democrats want them to do this? Why?

 

again from my “no news from the tv and mostly unplugged since last years election” vantage point, the snap thing is coming up a lot a lot. People are getting ready for the pain.

 

Also, I like to get reusable bags from random grocery stores to use at home. My favorite is from some store in Frankfurt with a bunch of scary looking German words on it. I occasionally get questioned by British people with my Morrisons bag.

Because the republican strategy for the last several decades (accellerated in recent years) is to break shit and blame the democrats. It works so they'll keep doing it again and again.

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Remember Hoovervilles? Can we get some viral recipes? Like great value potted meat with mashed saltines is Trumploaf. Dandelion greens and some mashed up brown bananas and a ramen packet is a Trump Salad.

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10 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Because the republican strategy for the last several decades (accellerated in recent years) is to break shit and blame the democrats. It works so they'll keep doing it again and again.

It works until it doesn't. Then they lose power. It's pretty stupid, but they like doing it to own the libs or something.

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Just now, David Dennison said:

It works until it doesn't. Then they lose power. It's pretty stupid, but they like doing it to own the libs or something.

All it takes is for one time -- one fucking time -- for the Dems to call their bluff.

The Repubs keep putting a gun to the head of the American people, saying "we'll shoot the hostage."  And the Dems, because they actually care about the American people (to some extent at least) always fucking cave to the threat.

Well, fuck that.  Call the bluff.  Give the Repubs two choices: (1) come to the table and restore the ACA spending, or (2) go ahead, shoot the hostage.

The Dem mistake has always been that they've thought that capitulating could avoid pain.  It can't.  It just means the pain is slower and more insidious.  Rip the fucking bandaid off, and make the Republicans be terrorists in broad fucking daylight.

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lol Finland was one place where I could consistently buy things in the grocery store that upon eating turned out to be something completely different than I had thought (and I actually know a few words in Finnish). It was fun.
I love my Pingo Doce grocery store in Portugal - food quality is so much better than here, although it took a while to get used to shelf-stable milk and eggs.

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

That's genuinely one of our amusing side notes when we travel, esp. to northern europe: any of their takes on mexican or Texas food.  It's usually.....quite sad and funny.

On the Grand Tour with a buddy during the period between undergrad and grad school, it became a joke to go to at least one "tex-mex" place (if we could find them) at each whistle stop we hit.  There were some real doozies.  But the best was in 1983 at a hotel in Toronto a younger Chad ordered "nachos" and my Dad said, "You shouldn't have done that."  They gave me something like potato skins covered in sour cream with a dollop of cheese and some black olives.  I said, "I ordered the nachos."  Lady looked at me like I had three heads.  "Those ARE the nachos."  I poked at it a bit and then went with a burger.    

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38 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Remember Hoovervilles? Can we get some viral recipes? Like great value potted meat with mashed saltines is Trumploaf. Dandelion greens and some mashed up brown bananas and a ramen packet is a Trump Salad.

my grandmother's cookbook from the 30s had a recipe for roasted squab. plenty of game around austin



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