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Mark, the POS person at the Bothell store, has worked at PCC for thirty years, I just learned. After emailing me a question about bulk groats, he followed up with an anecdote that truly had me laughing my ass off. So, I feel compelled to share it here:
Speaking of groats, when I took my Natural Foods Kitchen class with Goldie, way back in 1992, she took us into the bulk department, where we got to taste test some true 'hippie co-op' offerings, one of which was raw buckwheat groats. I was new to natural foods grocery, so I figured 'what the hell, let's give it a try'.
It tasted like horse food. It sucked all the moisture out of my mouth, so I couldn't swallow it, and had to stand there and chew it forever, like a cow chewing its cud. There was a garbage can nearby, but I couldn't spit it out for fear of hurting Goldie's feelings.
Next, we were off to the deli cheese department, where she had us try Quark (to this day, I have no idea what Quark was/is). I should have learned my lesson in the bulk department, but I tried it anyway. It tasted like vomit, and I almost vomited myself.
I began to wonder what I'd gotten myself into by applying for a job at Puget Consumer's Cooperative.
Just to be fair to my employer (but certainly not to one of our former vendors), I'll include what I replied to him with:
And I have an ironically kind of opposite experience from you, from when I very first started working at PCC myself (2002, ten years after you—my 20th anniversary is August 5). And it was also with Goldie! I think it might even have been the same kind of event for new hires. What I tried was Odwalla Superfood Juice, that thick green stuff that I thought looked absolutely horrid. But I decided to have an open mind and try it—and it was fucking delicious! I still love that stuff.
That said, love it or not, I wanted to throw a goddam party when we finally discontinued all Odwalla products. That cursed vendor never matched our costs at receiving, constantly submitting OIs on contracts and then charging regular cost, or the opposite, applying discounts on invoices that were never communicated to us. And never, ever did they correct these mistakes when I contacted them about it. Screw Odwalla (which is really just Coca-Cola anyway), they can go to hell!
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Not that any of you likely care but I spent a fair amount of time last night actually getting back to writing my review of the movie I saw the evening before,
Official Competition. I only gave it a B-minus, so it was hardly even worth the effort of writing the review. Old habits die hard though, I guess. I didn't even bother posting the link to my socials like I usually do.
Before that, Shobhit and I watched the season 3 finale of
The Boys on Prime Video, which was pretty entertaining. Amazon is an evil behemoth and all, but it's convenient that they have so much money they can invest significant amounts into their streaming shows. There they go, successfully keeping us all placated and docile with endless reams of entertainment! There's a lot of great stuff available there, anyway. Who needs a functioning democracy?
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[posted 12:27 pm]
