Okay now be honest!

[Puglover]

How many of my fellow DUers judge people on the contents of their grocery carts? I was standing in front of a lady at Cub today and the ONLY thing she had in her cart that wasn't processed was a cumcumber. And I admit I was standing there judging her abit. Does that make me a fancy pants elitist or a judgemental jerk?

[liberalhistorian]

1. Well, I remember how

I was constantly judged at the store whenever I used my food stamps. People would be blatantly peering into my cart and giving me looks if they didn't like what they saw. Like I was supposed to eat bean sprouts and tofu all the damned time!!!!

It's been years since I've been on food stamps and I still remember that like it was yesterday. It was so humiliating!!!

My point? Who the fuck cares what someone else gets in their cart? It's no one else's business but theirs, and you don't know the circumstances of the purchases anyway!!!!

[Puglover]

7. Oh my God..

lighten up. Im being tongue in cheek. If you have some past shame about being on food stamps don't throw it on me. I didn't mention food stamps and wasn't implying anything about people on food stamps. That is a huge and absurd leap of logic to assume I was, and to lump me in with the people that "glared" at you is unfair and just mean spirited. More then anything Im poking fun at me then anyone else...

[Tina H]

2. I wouldn't jump to conclusions

I just had to live for two months with no kitchen -- just a microwave and mini-fridge. I had to live on processed foods for the most part. I hope people didn't judge me to harshly.

I will say that it is nice to enjoys fresh vegetables and meat again now that I have a kitchen again.

[SarahB]

3. So yesterday I went to the grocery store

Among my small list of items included a bag of 9 cucumbers and two packages of hot dogs. Darn, no orgies either. :(

Actually, I tend to judge people just a little who have all crap (cookies, crackers, cereal, ice cream) and absolutely NO produce. We need our fruits and veggies. Not that hot dogs are perfect either, but at least they were kosher. :7

[LastKnight]

4. not necessarily by grocery carts...

but by what people buy in general... i work at a music store... ive seen people walk out with armfuls of country music and a pack of banjo strings, i look outside, and usuially thier car(in most cases SUVs or pickup truck) is plastered with bush/cheney stickers...

i know im making generalizations... but still. it goes both ways. ive seen people walk out with a System of a Down guitar book and what do i see on thier car? a dean sticker...

so i dont get to the grocery store alot, my parents take care of that. but i do end up judging people by the contents of their shopping bags.

i know i shouldnt, but blah blah blah... i havent been wrong yet. but around here your usuially an extreame of either side.

-LK

[Tina H]

6. Where do the Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson fans . . .

tend to fall politically? (Thems some goooood country artists)

also, Loretta Lynn has a new album out that I am thinking of getting. Maybe I better order privately over the Net!

[LastKnight]

9. i didnt say that all country was bad

just most people that listen to it are right wingers.

alot of retired people, about evenly split ask for the Johnny Cash...

and its the middle age stoners, and ex-hippies (who often look like willie) who ask for him. these are mostly left leaning, but now and then a few righties look for him *probably* because of his link to toby keith.

south dakota is a very bumper-sticker happy place, for some reason. it just seems most people make thier political staments on thier cars and tend to not talk about it cause its so polarized around here. cutting somone off and giving them the finger (as happend to me twice this week) is easier than debating it seems.

-LK

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Love country and proud of it! Walk right into the store and buy them.

I could give a crap what people think! :hi:

On edit: not the new that they try to pass off as country BTW. And, as a disclaimer...I am only 33. ;)

[LastKnight]

15. i didnt say it was good or bad...

im not really a fan of it, but to each thier own, im just pointing out something ive noticed. its by no means scientific or intended to offend anyone, just an observation i swear! lol.

-LK

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. I didn't think you did LK. It's just appearances can be deceiving.

like my brother who looks like a liberal and yet is not. ;)

[JVS]

5. The only time I ever thought about someone's stuff...

was when the obviously pregnant woman in front of me had the clerk get her some cigarettes and a pack of strawberry blunts. I couldn't believe it. Maybe it was for someone else, but I highly doubt it.

[Puglover]

8. what is a

strawberry blunt?

[JVS]

12. Cheap cigars usually used for smoking weed

http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/THC/Smoke/blunts.html

strawberry blunts are are flavored to be more appealing to people who don't like the taste of tobacco

[Paradise]

17. a dull, red, fleshy edible??? n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I used to buy MrG's smokes all the time when I was preggers JVS.

:hi:

[JVS]

14. Did you buy zig-zags?

because they are about the equivalent of blunts.

It was a female brand too. I can't be 100% sure but between blunts and virginia slim I was suspicious

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Nope. They were Winstons...and sometimes Camel unfiltereds.

Got a lot of comments, to which I guess I mostly said, thanks. :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. It's none of my business. Just like clothing, food does not make

the person. :hi:


On edit: and I guess you wouldn't like me very much. I have been known to binge on quite a bit of processed food.

[Puglover]

16. Well Mrs. Mcgrumpy

I don't recall saying I didn't like her. As I said above I was more poking fun at myself then anything else.I can down a Ho Ho as well as the next guy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. Okay, I guess you would judge me then.

:hi: No worries. Like I said, food does not make the person. It's not worth even looking at...much less judging in my book.

[DS1]

18. Not so much grocery carts, but watching people drive by in their

enormous Cadillac combination pickup/SUVs while yammering away on their phones makes me want to blast a hole in their head.

Yeah, I'll go there.

[Paradise]

19. healthy??? n/t