Are you a idiot?

[Goddess_girl]

That is what I was thinking to myself as the check out girl rang up my fresh foods.
She didnt know what a pineaaple was (can you believe it); she called the associate to give her the code and they gave her a lemon code. then after I told her AGAIN it was a pineapple she rang it up as a watermellon.
Then she didnt know what a snow pea was, or garlic, or kiwi or a cabbage.

It was clean she never ate a fresh food before.

I felt like I was in the twilight zone!!!!! :confused:

[karotw]

Ah yes, I've been there. The people who work at the health food market are really pretty good with identifying the produce. . .may have to get clarification on the greens (collards or dandelion?) but generally they are in the right plant family, anyway. . . but my general experience at the regular market (the one with aisles of "plastic food") is that if I don't bring the code with me to the checkout stand it's going to take a whole lot longer from them to figure it out. . .I try to be patient and I try to be prepared. . . but as a result of these experiences, I tend to shop at the regular market only when I'm in a pinch (when the health food market is closed or I don't have much time and need a specific ingredient). . . .

I also love when the checker asks me what I'm going to do with all that produce. . .Again, I try to be patient and just smile and say "eat it, of course". . .but sometimes I just want to say something silly . . like "feed it to my rabbits"

[Autumn]

Makes ya crazy, doesn't it? LOL!

I've made an interesting observation at the market in the past couple months. There are a lot of Mexican people moving into the Montgomery area. (That's not the observation I'm referencing.) I noticed a year or two ago that their carts consisted mainly of produce (like 80-90%) and I used to think, "Good for you!!!" Now I notice that they still have lots of produce, but quite a few of them also have several cases of SODA in their carts and I feel like grabbing them and saying, "Stick to the produce! Don't get this SAD crap!!" I guess it doesn't take long for our ads and TV commercials to get to everyone. I'm sure even people who don't speak a word of English know what "Coke" and "Pepsi" are. :(

[eatyourbroccoli]

:p

I'm currently going to school in Rome, so walking away with 2 or 3 bags full of nothing but produce isn't TOO strange..

(walking up the street struggling with a net of oranges dangling from my mouth is, however... ;) )

But my roommates DEFINITELY give me some sideways looks when they realize that my entire cupboard is full of produce..and my entire shelf in the fridge is filled with the same.

It's gotten to the point that even when they're cooking their SAD dinners...the smell of it makes me have to get up and go to another room. NOT because I'm addicted to it anymore, but because the smell and idea of it just is slightly nauseating to me..as if it isn't real food.

But that's alright..I just grab a mango to bring along with me and sit down to browse these forums and feed my body what it deserves :)

[exurb]

Well I couldn't tell the difference between a pork rind and a cheese doodle either. :D

someone worked for our farm and I offered her to take whatever she wanted from the veggie plot, these are GORGEOUS organic, heirloom stuff, and she said, oh no thanks, I don't eat any vegetables.

So I said, no vegetables at all?

she said, "well that's not true, I do eat onions but only if it's a blooming onion (battered and deep fried), and I will eat potatoes but only if they're chips or french fries."

oh well, at least she knows where some food comes from which is more than many others.

We had a group of high school kids over for a tour, we told them to grab an apple and munch if they wanted to while they were listening, out of a bus of 45 kids, only ONE would eat an apple.

When I was buying oil, the clerk asked me what I make with that, and I said mostly salad dressing, and she said with a completely surprised look "you can make salad dressing?!"

:eek:

[Melindaxl]

I know what you all are talking about! When I go to the store every week to get me my bananas there's people looking at me like I'm crazy, some people laughing at me, and about everytime I'm at the checkout they ask me if I'm going to make alot of banana pudding. I tell them no, I'm going to eat it! I don't eat junk like that! Only fruits, vegetables, nuts & seeds!! They look at me like they can't see how I do that. Most of them tell me oh I couldn't ever do that I got to have my meat and cheese!!
It kind of makes me mad when People look at us like were the unhealthy ones because were not eating meat and dairy products! When were the ones looking better, feeling better and hardly ever sick!! I just tell myself they can be the stupid ones, but I'm not going to be!!
Melindaxl

[jaurequi]

Oh, goodness, you guys have me cracking up! This is so funny and true -- I have the same experiences:
"Geez! What are you going to do with all that ___?"!!
"Ummm...eat it?"

[MelissaB]

Yesterday I went through the line with 20 pounds of oranges, 30 pounds of apples, 5 pineapples, 6 of those small watermelons, 6 containers of strawberries, 10 pounds of bananas, 3 pounds of spinach, 8 bell peppers all colors, 10 english cucumbers, 10 pounds of carrots, 4 buches of radishes, 3 pounds mixed baby greens, and 3 heads of iceburg lettuce. I was asked if I was stocking up since snow is expected this weekend. I said no these are just my groceries for the week. I got the incredouls look and 'FOR A WEEK! you must have a huge family', nope just me and my girlfriend. I thought her eyes were going to pop out of her head. I didn't tell her that the food was all for me, that my girlfriend does her own shopping. I think that would have killed her. lol ;) Sometimes I feel like I should put in a bag of potato chips and a case of soda so that I would pass as quasi normal. But then I don't stress about it as I think about pineapple for dinner. Yummy.

[jenna rose]

Yesterday I went through the line with 20 pounds of oranges, 30 pounds of apples, 5 pineapples, 6 of those small watermelons, 6 containers of strawberries, 10 pounds of bananas, 3 pounds of spinach, 8 bell peppers all colors, 10 english cucumbers, 10 pounds of carrots, 4 buches of radishes, 3 pounds mixed baby greens, and 3 heads of iceburg lettuce. I was asked if I was stocking up since snow is expected this weekend. I said no these are just my groceries for the week. I got the incredouls look and 'FOR A WEEK! you must have a huge family', nope just me and my girlfriend. I thought her eyes were going to pop out of her head. I didn't tell her that the food was all for me, that my girlfriend does her own shopping. I think that would have killed her. lol ;) Sometimes I feel like I should put in a bag of potato chips and a case of soda so that I would pass as quasi normal. But then I don't stress about it as I think about pineapple for dinner. Yummy.


WOW!! I wish I were able to buy that much at a time. I'd have no problem.

[Aasyah]

I completely understand ;) . I was shoping at my local supermarket, and browsing the fruits and veggies :D . when time came to check out the cashier was surprised at my basket full of nothing but fruits and veggies. She did not know what an eggplant, avacado, and parsley was :eek: .

[MelissaB]

WOW!! I wish I were able to buy that much at a time. I'd have no problem.
I don't normally buy that many oranges and apples but they are really good right now and I want to take advantage of it. I have to have iceburg lettuce in the house for when I watch a movie (even from sad days) or study (finals this week, yikes!) I munch on it like most sad people do popcorn. I have learned to always buy more than you think you will need because if you are short on something the urge to cheat rears it's ugly head, also you never know who will be stopping by for a visit and its nice to have extra on hand.

[TA]

Originally Posted by MelissaB

I have learned to always buy more than you think you will need because if you are short on something the urge to cheat rears it's ugly head, also you never know who will be stopping by for a visit and its nice to have extra on hand.

Wise woman!

[nuttie]

...i get the same looks when i toss my tote bags on the conveyer belt. I have about 1/2 a dozen that i have been using for about 10 years and when the cashier looks at the bagger with "what do you do with these?" eyes...i crack up inside....or else i hear the bagger complain that they are too hard to fill...blah...blah...blah...i just want to say "HELLO!!! WAKE UP!!!" <sarcasim :p

[ReneeSC]

We're the STICKS AND TWIGS PEOPLE at Wal-Mart. :) Well, that's what our favorite cashier calls us... LOL

She didn't know how to identify 1/3 of what we had either. But, that's alright... she learned THAT day.

[swiddweas]

Isn't it frustrating? These cashiers are not trained properly. They need to know what they are ringing up without asking. Heck, when I was training to be a checker 20 years ago, I had to learn ALL the fruits and veggies that were in the entire store and memorize their codes before I could graduate. whatever happened? :confused:

Last week I was putting zuchinni in a bag, one after another until the bag was full. This old lady standing next to me just stared as if to say,' when are you going to stop loading up your bag? I mean, what are you going to do with all that, you weirdo?" and she kept on staring at me until I left the produce section. I also picked up a box of 30 pounds of banannas. While line at the checkout, a lady behind me asked,"what are you going to do with all those banannas?" I just hate that question because I get asked that so frequently, like everytime I shop. This makes shopping less enjoyable in my opinion. The cashier asked me as she was ringing up the zuchinni," are you making zuchinni bread?" I thought, WHAT??? I said, "no, I am going to eat them raw. I am a raw foodist, I don't eat anything cooked, not even zuchinni bread". She said," Well, why don't you make some bread anyway, you got enough!" I felt like saying, you don't understand. these will be gone in a few days by eating them raw.

People just DON'T get it I guess. It's as though I am from another planet and have to explain myself to these people, and when I do, they still don't get it. What's up with that?


pattye

[twinee1]

My bad of organic Golden Delicious apples was not priced...so the girl got frustrated..did not want to find out the price. She saw on her sheet that Regular apples were 3.99 a bag....and says oh then the Organic must be like 2.99 a bag...rang them up...now I guess I should of piped up and said...they are usually MORE...but oh well. I was speechless.

[NoGMO!]

I bought a bunch of parsnips the other day and the cashiere held them up high and said "what in the world would you do with these?" like I was buying mud or something. ha-ha! I don't think he meant to be rude - I go in there so much - I think he just felt comfortable inquiring! I started to say - "um, make faux rice!" but I didn't have time to answer an inevitable slew of questions - so I said "salad!" ;)

[Goddess_girl]

My bad of organic Golden Delicious apples was not priced...so the girl got frustrated..did not want to find out the price. She saw on her sheet that Regular apples were 3.99 a bag....and says oh then the Organic must be like 2.99 a bag...rang them up...now I guess I should of piped up and said...they are usually MORE...but oh well. I was speechless.
No; thats about right.
They should charge more for the added pestisides.

[Ariannah]

No; thats about right.
They should charge more for the added pestisides. Naw... if someone is going to mangle and damage my food I would expect to pay less for it ;) After all, a damaged stereo is reduced in price, a damaged book is reduced in price, so therefore it stands to reason that food that is damaged goods (pesticides added to it) should cost less.

At the checkout I've had people repeatedly say that "these prunes look funny" (they were Medjool dates), but I mostly get bananas, apples and organic greens, so the foods are not that foreign to the checkout people.

[Mom]

No; thats about right.
They should charge more for the added pestisides.

I agree. :D

I wonder if checkers even eat veggies and fruits.
Once a girl didnt know what a cantalope was :confused:

[MelissaB]

I had one checker ring up a fresh bag of mixed baby greens as parsley. She said that she had never seen anyone buy so much parsley. :rolleyes: I think that's the only green thing she knew other than iceburg lettuce.

[SparklePlenty]

There's a funny comedian named Bill something or other, on "Blue Collar Comedy" on Comedy Central, who has a routine he does called "here's your sign!" When someone asks him a totally ridiculous question--the answer to which is obvious, he gives a sarcastic answer....as in "You're not gonna EAT all those vegetables, are ya?" His response would be, " 'Course not, I'm making veggie collages to take to Paris, and I'm gonna hang 'em at the Louvre." Then he'd say "HERE'S your sign!"

Of course the sign that hangs around the questioner's neck says, I'M STUPID!

It's pretty funny....and this whole topic would be too, if it weren't such a sad commentary on our culture's overall lack of nutritional awareness.....yikes!

But ya do gotta laff.......and maybe try gently to educate people along the way. Just mentioning that eating some veggies every day will reduce a person's chances of getting cancer will usually get someone's attention, and maybe even plant a seed in his or her mind. Ya never know.

Jan

[Carolyn]

There's a funny comedian named Bill something or other, on "Blue Collar Comedy" on Comedy Central, who has a routine he does called "here's your sign!" When someone asks him a totally ridiculous question--the answer to which is obvious, he gives a sarcastic answer....as in "You're not gonna EAT all those vegetables, are ya?" His response would be, " 'Course not, I'm making veggie collages to take to Paris, and I'm gonna hang 'em at the Louvre." Then he'd say "HERE'S your sign!"
Jan

hehehe ... Bill Engvall ... he's GREAT!!! I love "Here's your sign" ... always hysterical! And your comparison above was terrific, Jan! I can just picture him saying something like that!!! :)

[dreamrawalwz]

Every Saturday morning my dad and I have a routine and we go to Shopper's (grocery store) and I stock up on my fruits and veggies :) There's one cashier that knows us by name, there's also a man that works in the produe that knows us! Anyway, one day we didn't get our usual cashier and almost EACH item she checked out she had to ask waht it was! Even pears, avocados, dates, zucchini, and cucumber!

[sachis2112]

A few weeks back, I bought dried cranberries. I like to mix them with almonds (I know... bad combining) and have them on my desk at work. The cashier had no idea what they were. So I told her. Dried cranberries. They're in bulk over by the dates and dried blueberries, next to the nuts.... bladdy blah, thinking that she's going to ask for a price check. They don't have a tag where I can write down a number at this store. So, she's holding them above her head because she's trying to get her boss' attention to inquire about them. Remember that she's got a book full of numbers that she can look at.

I said again, "They're dried cranberries. They're the same price as the dried cherries." She's still holding the thing above her head. her boss shouts out a number to her, she enters it.... it's for the cherries. She then tries to get her boss' attention again... "They aren't in your book?" I ask. Again, I'm ignored.... finally she says, "Same price as the cherries?" I said "Yes" and she finally rung me out (10 VERY impatient people behind me).

[Ariannah]

I try not to think badly of people who simply are ignorant. I gently try to guide them in educating them what real food is.

I've gently had to say, "Yes, they're medjool dates. Expensive, but so tasty!" with a smile on my face, a grand number of times.

It can get repetitive and tiring when someone does not know simple things like cantaloupe and red peppers, but maybe the enthusiasm from one encouraging raw fooder will just be enough.

Ariannah

[sachis2112]

I try not to think badly of people who simply are ignorant. I gently try to guide them in educating them what real food is.
Ariannah

You're absolutely right. In my home town (middle of no-where Washington) I always give folks my friendly face. Here, in Los Angeles, I find myself frustrated. It's mainly the laziness of people that gets to me. I see it all the time in grocery stores. Clerks shout to each other for the sku numbers instead of taking two seconds to look it up. IMO, it would take the same amount of time. The problem is, god forbid you have to READ something!!!

[blessed]

I was at the store the other week and they had a 10 cents sale on some fruits and veggies. I filled up about 8 bags with 10 items in each bag and when I got to the register someone asked if I was going to make pie with the apples.
The next time a cashier called me over to the quickie register and she responded to my bags in a positive manner saying what a great price I was getting and she should stock up.
The other day my husband was at his office and some of the retired people were having an awards luncheon and they asked him to attend which he did and they offered him lunch. He said it was big platters of meat filled long sandwiches, he told them he didn't eat meat so guess what they offered him (Salad) I find it funny when you don't eat meat it usually means to others that all you eat are SALADS! My husband said it had meat in it.
We love being RAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ann