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This Episode’s Topics:
- Politically Correct – there are a lot of cultures that…
- Tesco British grocery stores will fail
- Bangers and soymilk
- Scr*w that Dvorak Yank, bag this!!
- Our plastic ocean surrounds Midway Island, surrender now
- Back to “Fresh and Easy”; TX and Seattle will kick butt
- Adam’s going to get some email
- Are you a qualified gas pumping jockey?
- Alert the media – John doesn’t shop every day!
- Adam’s good joke of the day
- John eats grits. Oh, and they must have that gourmet Fumee de Sel salt
- Adam’s beef with UAFA and UK’s tax code, which leads to the the next topic,
- The Money Masters – the big banks rule the world
- Skull and Bones
- Let’s go programming!
- More on BAA’s Heathrow row
- Juiced? Joost? Canseco? Just report what you see
- Patricia is on “Holland Got Talent”
- John and Adam argue about TV’s programming choices. Who wins?
Running time: Approx. 80 mins.
Tesco’s Fresh and Easy recent entry into the Southern California grocery market may have been facilitated by the recent grocery industry strikes, these strikes which if I remember correctly failed. Many supermarket stores here in Orange County closed (Ralphs stores in particular owned by Kroger). The new Fresh and Easy in Laguna Hills, CA, is located in the shopping center where a Kroger owned Ralphs once operated. The spin in the local press has been that Tesco is trying to exploit the market that was dropped by the major chains and move into bedroom (retirement) communities.
Oc register coverage of the matter:
http://www.ocregister.com/fi/search/?q=tesco&fistype=site&x=0&y=0
Love the blog, love No Agenda, keep up the good work!
My mom is from New Orleans, so I grew up eating grits for breakfast. I love them.
I usually put a very small amount of butter, some salt, pepper, and Tabasco. The Tabasco really makes a difference. Try it.
“Food 4 Less” here in southern california is a bag you own store.
midden…
as to Soy, it needs 3 processes to be made Pure.
Raw soy, has a small amount of poison in it, then the Hormones, then 1 more process.
Great and fun show as always!
About the Soy thingy, does this mean I have to stop eating those delicious soy hamburgers I love so much? Gah, always a back side to everything.
I’m not a vegetarian but it feels good to eat non-animal products, especially when they taste great.
And yes I’d love to see more “smart” game shows, would something like that work on the web?
Do a current events thingy mixed with some of that crazy stuff you see on japanse tv. Reward right answers, punish wrong answers etc.
Not sure how that would workout but it would be interesting. =)
“I’m not a vegetarian but it feels good to eat non-animal products…”
-It is generally accepted as the scientific truth that we have evolved intelligence because of eating meat protein (and catching it, and preparing it,…).
-It is also experimentally evident that our ancestral hominids did try vegetarian paths. Each of those hominids got extinct, quite quickly.
Knowing those two facts, why would any modern human attempt vegetarianism is beyond me. (Yes, we can walk on our hands, and they’ll get stronger if we do so, but why ignore few million years of evolution ?)
As for philosophical angle, try following paraphrase of Joseph Campbell: “… there comes a time when we need to realize and accept that the life is vicious…”
I haven’t used a conventional grocery store in years if I can’t get it at Trader Joes or Costco I probably don’t need it. The best Grocery Store in the US in my humble opinion is a small chain in Minnesota called Byerly’s. That’s a store I love.
And the show is to short.
You want to see a real grocery store? Check it: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/fairlakes/index.html
A few highlights:
* Wine tasting room with 80 wines on tap
* Sausage and smoked meats made in-house
* 4 in-house restaurants with seating for over 250 featuring >Seafood >BBQ >Sandwiches >Asian (They used to have an Italian restaurant but they closed it so that Emeril Lagasse could film his upcoming TV show there.)
* An extensive dry-aged beef selection
* Gelato made in-house with over 20 different flavors (pineapple/mint rocks!)
* Brick oven pizza (awesome)
* A “salad bar” that puts any other I’ve ever seen to shame
* Made to order omelets and waffles on the weekends
* Live music while you eat (saw they had it once, not sure if they’re doing it on a regular basis)
* In the summer they bring out the gas grills and set up an outdoor cafe
* Varying classes going on all the time such as beer and wine tasting, cooking classes, etc.
The beer tasting is really good. Every Thurs. night with a different theme, food, seating for around 10-12 people. The guy who runs it, Lee, really know his stuff.
Those are great stores. Here in TX, Central Market does the same thing.
http://www.centralmarket.com/cm/index.jsp