I Think Safeway is Trying to Pull a Fast One

"PyramidHat" (pyramidhat) 01/01/2015 at 22:21 • Filed to: Produce

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So, I normally shop at Trapper Joe's or a local produce store. But as it's New Years Day, they're closed, but Safeway was open...so, fine. I go to get oranges and come upon this:

Looks like a stack of oranges, right? Check down at the bottom - those look like slightly different oranges, don't they? That's because they're grapefruit. This almost turned into a tragedy. Cagey sonsabitches...

Xyl0c41n3 > PyramidHat 01/01/2015 at 22:25

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Lol. I was like "oh hey look! They have grapefruit, too!" before I even read your text.

Twinpowermeansoneturbo > PyramidHat 01/01/2015 at 22:29

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This bs just cost me a match of QuizUp against my girlfriend. Final picture was a large citrus fruit with a reddish center. Answer was blood Orange. Blood Orange my ass, that's a damn grapefruit.

PyramidHat > Xyl0c41n3 01/01/2015 at 22:30

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Yeah - fortunately my produce identification has gotten better as I got older. In the early 2000's I was doing the Atkins diet, so I bought a couple of big heads of lettuce and came home to make a big 'ol salad (with meat and cheese, of course)*. By the time I started to make the salad, I realized that the leafs were thick and waxy...I had bought cabbage! God Dammit! I almost launched them off the balcony into the parking lot, I was so pissed...

*No, I wasn't going to make a 2-lettuce head salad...that's excessive, even for me...one was for later in the week....

PyramidHat > Twinpowermeansoneturbo 01/01/2015 at 22:37

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Another victim of the Evil Grapefruit.

I find that the only possible way to eat a grapefruit is to douse it with sugar so that it kills the taste. Evil bastards, they are...

Xyl0c41n3 > PyramidHat 01/01/2015 at 22:37

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I hope you ate it anyway.... You unknowingly made coleslaw. Throw a little mayo in there and you're good! Lol.

PyramidHat > Xyl0c41n3 01/01/2015 at 22:39

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Back then, I wasn't in to cabbage. I'd eat it now. Actually, my main complaint about cabbage is that it's impossible to get a little bit of it (e.g. for fish tacos). It's either 8 lbs of cabbage or no cabbage. I never knew a vegetable could be so binary like that...

Xyl0c41n3 > PyramidHat 01/01/2015 at 22:44

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It goes great in soup.

Also, I realized the other day that I'd become an old when I was actually looking forward to boiled cabbage. Like, not even in soup, but just boiled by itself with a little butter, salt, and pepper.

XJDano > Xyl0c41n3 01/01/2015 at 23:57

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This was always a side dish with the traditional American St.Patrics day corn beef & cabbage. Just as you said, little salt & pepper, yum.

Xyl0c41n3 > Twinpowermeansoneturbo 01/02/2015 at 01:16

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Heh, Nope. They're very different in size, color, and most importantly, flavor.

And, you've just reminded me that I have a 20 lb. sack of ruby reds in my kitchen that I need to work on eating... hehehe.