Labels

Do you read labels at the grocery store?  I assume most people do.  I do generally stick to the nutrition stuff, check to find out that one serving of PF Gold fish is 43 pieces (YES!).  I did change some things I ate after I read the label.  Juice is pretty depressing as most of them contain very little of the juice that the flavor is supposed to have come from.

Now it should be know that I hate the checkout process at the grocery store because I get too involved in judging or reading things into people’s lives by what they are buying.  Some person who is soooo big enough that they barely fit down the aisle is only buying candy, ice cream, frozen french fries and beer, and not one healthy thing, yeah snide remark. Or I will be behind some old lady who bought 10 cans of green beans and that is it. First, I do feel bad if that is all she can afford, but in this particular example all the canned veggies were on the same sale, so why 10 cans of on type? Now that we have self check lines that helps some (helps, means I can avoid contact with stupid humans), but if there is a back up and some woman is trying to self check $300 worth of groceries (that made me develop a facial tick as the vein in my forhead was about to explode).  My wife and I can self check as fast as an average checker (that counts looking up the fresh veggies and fruit). On a similar note, we had a checker ask us what both garlic and green beans, and mushrooms were?  I think to be a checker you should have to walk through the produce section and at least learn the names of common stuff.

Well I digress from my original story, at the checkout this week I read a Slim Jim label, the wife wanted one for about 30 seconds. First ingredient was beef, and then the second was “mechanically separated chicken water”?????  WTF is that!!  I started laughing out loud (which is somewhat rare for me in public).  I looked 5 times and did find a comma, so it was actually “mechanically separated chicken, water”, but still, what is mechanically separated chicken.  Well anyway we didn’t buy a Slim Jim, and I probably never will now.

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