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Yeah frozen veg is as close to fresh as you'll get.
I never buy canned peas but I quite often buy canned green beans (aka string beans) They are really cheap and actually pretty good.
They aren't bad, but they don't taste much like fresh green beans.
Still healthier than no vegetables, tho.
I can usually go back and forth and eat canned or frozen veggies (for those few veggies I actually eat regularly), and I absolutely love frozen peas, but canned ones I won't touch.
You're not going to believe this, but I found the answer.
Trouble is, I don't BELIEVE the answer.
I knew one of my roommates worked at Target, but I didn't know he was the Food Manager on the grocery side. He says Target was notified by Del Monte a few months ago that due to a poor pea crop, no peas this year. They hope to be back on the shelves in JULY.
WTF? How is this possible? Are you telling me that there's only one place on the entire planet that grows peas???
Oh well. I can stick it out till July.
Thanks to all of my OOT scouts who scoured the nation in search of peas on my behalf. And LOL at all the shelf-stockers who labor day after day IN THE SAME AISLE and never noticed the peas disappeared.
One kid I asked had no inkling the peas had been gone all that time. I made a crack that maybe the Duke brothers were trying to corner the market. I got a blank stare in reply, and assured him that it was my fault that I would make a joke that he was too young to get.
The lady pushing her cart past us heard the whole thing, though, and laughed like hell. She got the joke.
I could have had her.
Last edited by youtalkfunny; 05-28-2012 at 06:03 PM.
And LOL at all the shelf-stockers who labor day after day IN THE SAME AISLE and never noticed the peas disappeared.
There is no LOL at them at all. If I were a shelf-stocker in a grocery store I wouldn't give a crap about the canned peas or any other specific item.
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And he was probably like, "Uh, okay. Can I go do something more important now?"
This. It's a little weird to be bugging them about the peas but no biggie. But after that it definitely gets weirder to try to have a joke or convo about it.....unless you were trying to be overheard by the lady to impress her. But if she's the type of lady to be impressed by such a joke then we are kind of back at square one of the whole interaction being too weird.
Geez, you guys are such nits. Here's the whole story:
SHELF STOCKER GUY: Can I help you find anything? (or maybe it was, "Are you finding everything OK?")
ME: Well, since you asked, peas blahblahblah months blahblahblah, you happen to know anything about that?
(Cougar walks by pushing her cart. She's wearing shorts on a night that isn't particularly warm. I think she's feeling sexy tonight. Hey, is she checking me out?)
SHELF STOCKER GUY: Gee, no, first I've heard of it.
ME: All right, don't worry about it. Thanks for your help.
(I finish up in that aisle, and head to the next one. Halfway down, Shelf Stocker Guy from comes over from previous aisle, brandishing several cans of peas)
SHELF STOCKER GUY: We don't have any Del Monte, or any 8 oz cans, but we have these!
ME: (thinking, "This guy won't quit!") I appreciate that, but I was just interested in that one item.
SHELF STOCKER GUY: (repeats everything he's already said in the previous aisle, ends with) I don't know.
(here comes Mrs Cougar again)
ME: Heh, maybe the Duke brothers were trying to corner the market. (I had just come from a poker table where I had made a Trading Places/Duke brothers joke that got huge laughs, see spoiler box below for details)
(Cougar grins, SSG is stumped)
ME: ...but you're too young to get that joke...
(Cougar LOLs, SSG shrugs. All walk away from me.)
(I start planning on what I'm going to say when I see Cougar in next aisle.)
(Cougar disappears.)
Spoiler:
I started in Table 1, Seat 9. Table 1 is always the final table. When the field of 100+ had been whittled down to about 15, I was the only original member of Table 1 still in the tourney, and I was starting to think how neat it would be to win a tournament without ever once changing seats.
Almost as soon as that thought had occurred to me, the TD was tapping me on the shoulder. He needed to move me to balance the two remaining tables. This totally frustrated my plans. "What?", I cried. I was thinking, "But I've been in this seat since the tourney started!", but what came out of my mouth was, "This is an outrage! There's been a Duke on this exchange since it was founded!"
Only a few people caught it, but they laughed heartily at it.
If you're not laughing yet, this might do it: When it was time to redraw for the final table, the TD tossed the seat cards onto our table and said, "Draw yourself a seat," but just before the cards hit the table, the whole pile flipped in the air, and they all landed face-up. I quickly grabbed Seat 9 and got my old seat back!
And it worked, too: I won the tournament.
Last edited by youtalkfunny; 05-28-2012 at 11:51 PM.
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