"Every table was set with a single fresh rose (from the rose gardens outside, I was told) and a full complement of three forks, two knives, and two spoons in silver plate..... The buffet tables could have graced a high-end ocean liner. I watched a gentleman in colorful African garb pile his plate with slices of roast sirloin and potatoes mashed with feta cheese. A post-retirement-age couple from the East Side scarfed up most of the egg rolls, though more came out quickly....
I made for the roast leg of lamb with rosemary sauce after I filled my salad plate with chilled asparagus and slices of a duck and pork terrine.... fresh tomato soup and bowls of pasta primavera.... The dessert buffet table practically groaned under a spread of apple and pumpkin pies, cheesecakes, tarts, half a dozen cheeses, sliced fruits, bowls of berries, and, off to one side, three urns of ice cream"
And that was ONLY LUNCH!
Would you like a second-helping of s*** this morning, America?
Also see: Globalist Gluttons Gorge Themselves
Aren't they supposed to be helping starving people?
Yeah....
"Amid the rows of crumpled cereal boxes and past-prime meat, customers may stumble upon everything from gourmet cheese to rattlesnake sausage - some of which must be thrown out because it’s stale or the packaging is opened."
"Salvage grocers thrive as shoppers seek bargains" by Ivan Moreno, Associated Press | August 9, 2009
ARVADA, Colo. - .... Amid the rows of crumpled cereal boxes and past-prime meat, customers may stumble upon everything from gourmet cheese to rattlesnake sausage. It all depends on what Palumbo’s broker ships him - some of which must be thrown out because it’s stale or the packaging is opened....
Don't you wish you could get a table at the U.N., 'murkn?
Salvage grocers are regulated much the same as traditional grocers: Inspectors check that the facilities and the products on the shelves are clean and that cans are not severely dented or punctured, said Patti Klocker, assistant director for the Consumer Protection Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
Aside from baby formula and over-the-counter medications, regulators aren’t worried about sell-by dates as long as food has been stored properly, said Stephanie Kwisnek, a spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration. The dates don’t imply when something is safe to eat but rather when the quality is best.
Kathy Stroh began shopping at the Friday Store in the 1970s, when she was a single mother of three and trying to stretch every dollar. Now, as she nears retirement as a teacher at the University of Phoenix, Stroh is just as cautious about her finances.
“That is 100 percent juice,’’ she said, pointing to a two-quart jug of grape Nestle Juicy Juice selling for $1.99. “I mean, they have good stuff here!’’
Yup, HIGH-QUALITY SHIT -- not the diarrhea drivel I find every morning in my Boston Globe bowl.
--more--"
Gee, Americans, you sound as bad off as !
I think I would RATHER STARVE!! I, I, I....
MOSCOW - The cheeses are spotted with mold. The sausages are ominously gray. Slime is beginning to overtake the chicken.
But the stooped and slow clientele who crowd this pungent stretch of market stalls in the southern fringes of the Russian capital don't seem bothered. Retirees mass and push before spreads of lukewarm yogurt and moldering fish. Business has never been better, the manager says.
That's usually when it takes a ride into the woods around here, folks.
I'm not a big fan of gut pain or food-poisoning.
Theoretically, selling expired foodstuffs is a crime punishable by fine. But the climbing prices, falling salaries, and withering demand of Russia's economy appear to be driving a surge in the sale of past-their-prime goods.
Trafficking in spoiled food, a familiar racket during the collapse of the Soviet Union, is making a comeback in both markets and wholesale Internet shopping. A semi-underground enterprise, it is difficult to trace. But consumer groups, shoppers, and anecdotal evidence all indicate its ascendance.
Isn't that how Louis the XVI got into trouble?
"If you lower the price to pennies, people will buy it even at the risk of being poisoned," says Irina Vinogradova, director of the Russian Institute of Consumer Evaluation. "This crisis has led some people into a situation where they have absolutely no money to survive on."
Like many of the shoppers here, Galina Abrosimova, 82 and a retired construction engineer, had been buying spoiled food even before the crisis hit. Supermarkets are an impossible dream for many retirees. They spend their days shuffling from one corner of Moscow to the next, hunting bargains. Most Russians still haven't been forced to buy spoiled food....
Then one wonders why this is even in my enemy-creating, agenda-pushing jewspaper!
WTF when WE GOT AMERICANS STARVING while the WEALTHY LIVE IT UP!
.... Back to the hack job on the Russians:
In the middle of the market, a group of men clusters around a metal table, swapping newspaper sections, and running eyes over their domain. They wear suits or leather; they look tough and wary, as if they were sent over from a "Sopranos" casting call. When they notice a foreign reporter wandering from stand to stand, they send over a pair of security guards to hover along.
Related: The Boston Globe is a Mouthpiece For the Jewish Mafia
Boston Globe Protecting Jewish Mafia
"What are you doing? You can't take photographs here," one guard says, although the only camera is in a bag, out of sight....
--more--"Better check that bag, Boston!
Something stinks!
Speaking of which, time for me to break for some good, locally grown food.
