Review: Whole Foods' New Containers

Whole Foods has discontinued plastic bags at checkout and introduced super-biodegradable containers at the salad bar. I think it's fantastic that Whole Foods is pushing customers to use reusable bags. Granted, paper bags are still an option, but Whole Foods' efforts are commendable.

But there are a few kinks to work out with the containers at the salad bar (pictured above). First of all, they are insanely hard to pull apart! I mean come on. Removing them from their stacks is a three-hand operation, and still results in ripped corners and discarded pieces. Secondly, they are enormous! They look like shoe boxes. I mean, if I wanted my salad to fly around loosely, I'd just grab a paper bag and skip the container. Then you could really throw everything in and eat it with your hands like a huge bag of popcorn.

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Coffee Break: Nature's Spendors

Sunset over McDonalds

This is the same McDonalds that I featured in the earlier post.
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Guess the Starbucks Drink

Okay, this one is easier.

Tall non-fat no whip hot chocolate. A nice late afternoon treat. More...

Website Construction

I just want to apologize for the occasional "More..." red herring. The only code I could find for collapsible posts is a 'permalink' which means that it always appears, even if there is nothing more to be said. I'll try to always have more, but sometimes a few sentences really is enough.

This time there really is more though --> See here for a great explanation of how to make every blogspot post a collapsible post. More...

Drink Orders, and How!

Okay, so he looked a little like this:


Since I just wrote on drink orders and personal identity I couldn't help but notice the order following mine this morning. A man steps up wearing a door-to-door salesman suit with a cellphone pressed to his ear, but he wasn't talking or listening to anyone. He then orders a "large hot milk". Yes. He had to say it twice. "A large hot milk, please". Wow. He really seems to like holding business-person-like things, even if he uses them as mere props. The barista placed it on the bar and politely called it out as a venti steamer, but everyone within earshot already knew its birth name. So now I'm thinking that it's not just your drink order that reaveals something about you, but how you order it.


That 'portrait' was penned by me, but I am completely indebted to the creators of jacksonpollack.org Their site is amazing.

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Under Construction!

Apologies for the roughness of the blog today. More...

Guess the Starbucks Drink

Hint: it's the same as yesterday.

Tall nonfat green tea latte.

I ordered this yesterday morning as well, so I guess I've revealed what Starbucks drink phase I'm going through.
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