*In the meantime, tacos!*
Word.
Although I did encounter one oddity while shopping: I could not get
shredded lettuce. The place I shop is an enormous place, and there were,
like, ten small bags of coleslaw, a couple of bags of caesar salad, a few
other bagged salad types, and that was about it on a whole wall of shelves
where the bagged salads are kept. So the store had taken the individual
bags and just stood each one up on its own front shelf space, to try and
make it look like the shelves weren't 95% empty. But they were, and this
was notable by what *wasn't* there, which happened to be exactly what I was
looking for. I want shredded lettuce on my tacos, and I don't care how
similar they might look, coleslaw just isn't going to do the trick. So I
grabbed a bag of caesar salad, since that's kinda chunkily shredded,
although only kinda and maybe shredded isn't even the right word exactly.
That was the only place in the whole store that looked like that, though,
at least that I ran across. I wonder if we're having some sort of bagged
sal(ad)monella thing going on that I don't know about, and this was one of
the bags the store guys thought "looked ok".
These are the risks we take and the indignities we must suffer in the
plague times, though. Caesar salad bits on tacos, with or without extra
salmonella.
2021 still has 2020 echoing pretty hard.
Scott
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:53 AM Marya F <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gahhh. Tacos sound great (and/or it's heading towards lunch time).
Stay safe out there. I'm probably overly worried about this new strain.
But I am worried. Mostly about my mom who just allows herself to be
exposed. She thinks she's being safe, but seriously. She is still going
into her office every day (she and my stepfather own the place. They go in
as do support staff and construction workers.). Heavy sigh.
One of our friends is a GP at Kaiser in LA. One of their ER docs died this
morning of covid.
I'm so ready for this to be over.
In the meantime, tacos!
Marya
(new year and hovering around inbox zero, so not so overwhelmed by email
at this moment.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:47 AM Scott Ransom <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, I decided that while I could technically last many more months
without going to the store, they would be months of probably nutritionally
deficient filler like ramen and spaghetti. Which is fine for a while, but
not really a good long-term lifestyle. And so, rather than die of
malnutrition instead of covid, I decided this morning around 4:30 to head
for the supermarket.
While I'm sure clouds of sticky viral mist are now common outside my
door, I think what must have been freak weather conditions allowed me to
slip between or around them. Of course, I may just be thinking of the
familiar clouds of the old virus. The new, evolved, and much more
infectious clouds are invisible without infrared goggles, and Amazon sold
out of those, like, immediately. Although I bathed myself in x-rays and a
light spray of sulfuric acid when I got home, we'll still have to see in
five to ten days if food was worth it. It may not have been.
Taco's tonight, though. Also, they were dumping Christmas candy, so I
may have overbought on waxy holiday themed chocolates as well.
Scott
