Open Thread: Do The Right Thing Edition
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later,…
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later, how much has changed and how much remains the same?
You have to check whether it says, “Use by”, “Best by” or “Sell by”.
“They used to bury the date, now they hope you see it so you can throw it out and buy more.”
Yeah, I saw it on a box of pasta. Gimme a break.
BG, call the BBG. (hey, I like that!)
They have a number of arborists they can hook you up with.
The one in Sunset Park…horrible…they have no one to gather the buggies so you have to roam through that huge parking lot and find/fight for your own (for $50 membership, I shouldn’t be roaming a lot trying to find my own buggy), nothing in the store had a price on it and no one who worked there could tell me a price, instead they said, just take it to the register and when you go to pay you’ll find out the price. Considering the fact that I had to carry everything I was buying by hand because after 30 minutes I gave up on finding a damned buggy, I was not about to lug sh!t around the store and in the line just to find that I wasn’t willing to pay x price. Then I waited in a super long line (they only had 3 lines open and all 3 lines were at least 45 people deep while other ‘workers’ stood around chatting). When I finally paid for my stuff (All I bought was a box of tampons and a pack of CD-RWs) they refused to give me a bag to put it in. I had to find a manager who then claimed that they don’t have any bags in the whole store. After I pitched a world class fit, they suddenly ‘found’ some bags and gave me one. I went home that day and had to take an anti-anxiety pill to calm myself down!
“I didn’t know that Denton. Would the cereal be covered? My biggest concerns with that particular store was the cheese, milk and yogurt. The cereal part was just plain annoying!”
Absolutely milk would be covered. If I recall from way back in my supermarket days, milk was the only thing that had be dated with a freshness code that was the actual date. Everything else had a freshness code that was, yup, a code. Easy to decipher, but not a real date. Some of the other dates I think are just marketing. They used to bury the date, now they hope you see it so you can throw it out and buy more.
Prospect Tree – excellent & very knowledgeable.
Yeah, Snappy, what’s the deal about CostCo?
Wow, THL- you were lucky. Mm was in front of her bedroom window when there was a huge CRACK!! and one very large overhanging branch crashed down and into the backyard next door. The locust tree is very old and quite a bit taller than the building. I think its beginning to die so she’s going to have to get someone to look at it. Anyone have any recommendations for a tree expert?
My college roommate was Greek and everything she made was marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, fresh oregano (lots) and onion. Her dad owned two diners and a catering hall in Chicago and he used to bring us the oregano from his garden.
Insanely good on pork chops.