Groceries

by Chet

I love food. I love to eat, cook, taste, attempt, bake [insert other verbs associated with food]…

With that said you all surely understand how important groceries are to me. I’m not a snob by any means. I have no problem buying store brand items. I’ve yet to notice a difference when I’m dealing with canned goods. I must admit however that there are certain items I like to have. This week I began my life in Nebraska. I arrived in the Cornhusker state just in time for Nicole to need some groceries in the apartment. Great! I headed out on Tuesday to pick up the things that we needed to make delicious foods at home.

I arrived at Sunmart Groceries. It is the closest grocery store to our apartment, so that is convenient. This was the worst grocery buying experience I’ve ever had. I was firstly ignored at the deli counter, however she was quite pleasant after she came over to help. The store is not organized in a sensible way. I was looking for tortillas so I went to the bread aisle, nothing there. Disappointed I moved on. Later I found the tortillas with the cheese(?). Next in my search were instant mash. (Told you I wasn’t a snob.) They had none. This store carries a specialized Jagermeister cooler, but not instant mash? Okay fine.

This is all I’m going to say about this: They don’t sale Wolf Brand Chili here.

From there I started searching for Kosher Salt. I discovered that I love Kosher Salt, I’m not entirely sure why, about 6 months ago. When I got down the baking aisle and saw that they had low sodium salt I thought I was in luck. Nope. This store carries every type of salt known to basic kitchen life, but not Kosher. Too bad I don’t have an ice cream crank! To top off this adventure I couldn’t find any habanero peppers or brie. Those last two items are much more understandable, but disappointing nonetheless.

I finally decided to end my misadventure and head to the check out lines. This was the most rude checker I’ve ever encountered. She wouldn’t talk to me which I can forgive. Her biggest shortcoming was her inability to pack my items into a bag. She put cans with my eggs, cans with my bread, milk cartons with cans, it was terrible. She then rolled her eyes at me as I rearranged my bags in front of her rather than paying her.

Since then I’ve had to go to other stores in search of my missing items. I am still missing a few.

Hopefully I will get this figured out before it’s too late, and I go insane.

Until next time.

PS: It’s really hard to write blogs when you’re limited on materials. I need to start making things happen in order to get some better reading up here. I have some movies I’d like to write about. We’ll see.