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Steve Edmunds

Steve Edmunds
What costs more: three gallons of gas, or a pound of Brussels Sprouts?
(Hint; I was charged $5.39 a pound for Brussels Sprouts today at a market in El Cerrito!)
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originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Trick questionWhat costs more: three gallons of gas, or a pound of Brussels Sprouts?
(Hint; I was charged $5.39 a pound for Brussels Sprouts today at a market in El Cerrito!)
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Bubble Sprouts?

That's just awful.
 
$2.69 for the whole damn stalk at Berkeley Bowl. Of course, you've gotta rub shoulders with dirty hippies, but then some of us get off on that sort of thing.
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Trick questionWhat costs more: three gallons of gas, or a pound of Brussels Sprouts?
(Hint; I was charged $5.39 a pound for Brussels Sprouts today at a market in El Cerrito!)
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What the heck were you doing buying produce in El Cerrito? The problem starts there, I think. El Cerrito Natural Foods is OK, but the Berkeley sister store is closer to you, and the Farmer's Market at El Cerrito Plaza is but a shade of the North Berkeley edition. I'm sure that you had your reasons, though, so my condolences.

Mark Lipton
(Who paid less than $2/lb for sprouts here in flyover country and is feeling quite chuffed about it)
 
actually I think it's El Cerrito Natural Grocery. I have a feeling somebody entered bad info into the computer, but I intend to do a little more investigating. They were organic, but Holy Shit...
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
It was El Cerrito Natural Foodsactually I think it's El Cerrito Natural Grocery. I have a feeling somebody entered bad info into the computer, but I intend to do a little more investigating. They were organic, but Holy Shit...
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OK, I get it. You were browsing at Downhome Records and decided to do some one-stop shopping. That's what you get for visiting a cultural backwater, Steve. In case you haven't guessed, that area is within walking distance of the house I grew up in.

Mark Lipton
 
You're shopping at the wrong markets. If you had a Wegman's in town, they would cost all of $1.99/pound, but then, you wouldn't be surrounded by the rich, and I mean rich, California sun and fog. And this still would be more expensive than the $1.25/g gas I hear is being sold in Wyoming!
 
They are $3 a stalk in the Western Catskills. They will hold well for a couple weeks so I won't hassle you about buying them already trimmed. But the one thing you might be missing out on are the little tiny ones near the top of the stalk. They're the best.

Speaking of cabbage bubbles, until refrigerated trucks came along this rural area of New York was the main source of cauliflower for Manhattan and quite wealthy because of it. The bottom fell out (well, actually it drove away) and people moved to eggs, cows, and wood pulp for making battery acid. Still a lot of dairy around but man that's hard work.

Best,
Kay
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
They are $3 a stalk in the Western Catskills. They will hold well for a couple weeks so I won't hassle you about buying them already trimmed. But the one thing you might be missing out on are the little tiny ones near the top of the stalk. They're the best.

Speaking of cabbage bubbles, until refrigerated trucks came along this rural area of New York was the main source of cauliflower for Manhattan and quite wealthy because of it. The bottom fell out (well, actually it drove away) and people moved to eggs, cows, and wood pulp for making battery acid. Still a lot of dairy around but man that's hard work.

Best,
Kay
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Holy Cow!
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Trick questionWhat costs more: three gallons of gas, or a pound of Brussels Sprouts?
(Hint; I was charged $5.39 a pound for Brussels Sprouts today at a market in El Cerrito!)
The next bubble?
Click to expand...

What the heck were you doing buying produce in El Cerrito? The problem starts there, I think. El Cerrito Natural Foods is OK, but the Berkeley sister store is closer to you, and the Farmer's Market at El Cerrito Plaza is but a shade of the North Berkeley edition. I'm sure that you had your reasons, though, so my condolences.

Mark Lipton
(Who paid less than $2/lb for sprouts here in flyover country and is feeling quite chuffed about it)
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Yeah but in flyover country the sprouts were picked last August and have been in cold storage ever since.
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:

Yeah but in flyover country the sprouts were picked last August and have been in cold storage ever since.
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Dream on, Lou. These were locally farmed, no less, and on the stalks. We've got some cabbage-crazy farmers out here, don't you know?

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Have you cooked them yet? Were they worth the extra money?
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They tasted like Brussels Sprouts. What does worth the extra money mean, really? My thought at this point is that somebody inputting codes for the computer system at ECNG punched in the wrong numbers. Maybe there's a virus. Maybe it was a chimpanzee. Maybe it was Nathan!
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Have you cooked them yet? Were they worth the extra money?
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They tasted like Brussels Sprouts. What does worth the extra money mean, really? My thought at this point is that somebody inputting codes for the computer system at ECNG punched in the wrong numbers. Maybe there's a virus. Maybe it was a chimpanzee. Maybe it was Nathan!
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I dunno. For that price, they should taste like black truffles.

Mark Lipton
 
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