So I go to Fresh Fields yesterday to pick up some groceries. For those that don't know, Fresh Fields is an "alternative" supermarket, stocked with organic/herbal/vegetarian/green products. It actually does have some good products in there that you wouldn't find anywhere else.
But it's the people there that amuse me. As I park in the parking lot, I pull in between cars plastered with bumper stickers with slogans like "Impeach Bush", "Greenpeace", "Hug the Earth", or "Visualise World Peace". A good percentage also have rainbow stickers on them. Strangely, it's usually cars like late 70's/early 80's Volvos that have the most environmentalist stickers on them. A bit ironic that an environmentalist would pic an old gas-guzzling car whose exhaust emissions are like that of a 1900's steel mill. I walk into the store and you have your usual assortment of out-in-space alternative lifestyle people who seemingly never wash or brush their hair. You also find people that you'd see in political blogs, with pink shirts, porkchop sideburns, and those thick-rimmed black glasses from Half Life. You have your usual selection of gay guys and lesbians there, in their own little world. You get the picture, it's a liberal stronghold.
I go to get meat and they do have meat there, next to their gigantic selection of tofu. As usual, the strangest people in the place are in the tofu section, picking out tofurkey, tofuhambuger, or any other type of tofu flavored like meat, which they despise. The people next to me seemed a bit disturbed that while they're "saving the animals" by buying tofu, they have me next to them who is buying a ton of chicken. I go to the checkout line and there's your typical college girl, attractive but pierced all over, probably a man-hater.
All in all it's a pretty fun experience.
But it's the people there that amuse me. As I park in the parking lot, I pull in between cars plastered with bumper stickers with slogans like "Impeach Bush", "Greenpeace", "Hug the Earth", or "Visualise World Peace". A good percentage also have rainbow stickers on them. Strangely, it's usually cars like late 70's/early 80's Volvos that have the most environmentalist stickers on them. A bit ironic that an environmentalist would pic an old gas-guzzling car whose exhaust emissions are like that of a 1900's steel mill. I walk into the store and you have your usual assortment of out-in-space alternative lifestyle people who seemingly never wash or brush their hair. You also find people that you'd see in political blogs, with pink shirts, porkchop sideburns, and those thick-rimmed black glasses from Half Life. You have your usual selection of gay guys and lesbians there, in their own little world. You get the picture, it's a liberal stronghold.
I go to get meat and they do have meat there, next to their gigantic selection of tofu. As usual, the strangest people in the place are in the tofu section, picking out tofurkey, tofuhambuger, or any other type of tofu flavored like meat, which they despise. The people next to me seemed a bit disturbed that while they're "saving the animals" by buying tofu, they have me next to them who is buying a ton of chicken. I go to the checkout line and there's your typical college girl, attractive but pierced all over, probably a man-hater.
All in all it's a pretty fun experience.
