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Apr. 23rd, 2005 09:52 pmReason #486 to watch Deadwood:
"Tread lightly, who lives in hope of pussy."
Also, I watched a rerun of West Wing a week or so ago that had a whole thing about "knowing the price of milk" as an indicator of being out of touch with reality. How did knowing the price of milk become a measure of out-of-touchness? Because, granted, my household income is on the highish end nationally (though not for the DC area), but we are not so well-off as to fall into the privileged class that is implied by the whole not-knowing-the-price-of-milk thing. But I have no IDEA what the price of milk is.
First of all, it CHANGES all the time -- depending on whatever special Safeway has running at the moment -- and second of all, milk is not an item you can comparison shop; if you want to buy a gallon of non-fat milk at the Capitol Hill Safeway, it's gonna be Lucerne. And THIRD of all, milk is an item that you kinda have to buy -- you can't have cereal without it -- and it's also an item you can't stockpile, so it's not something I'll put off buying until it's on special. So basically, I just grab the gallon, I don't watch the price -- I watch the grocery budget in other places.
Like chicken breasts -- I can tell you the price of chicken breasts: $5.79 a pound if you go at the worst time, a third that (or less) if you go when the bulk packages are buy-one-get-one-free. And baby carrots? $1.79 a pound if you buy the regular, $1.99 if you spring for the organic brand. Corn isn't worth buying until it gets below 4 ears for a dollar.
So how the heck did *milk* become the gold standard for knowing the price of groceries? Is it just because it's something almsot everyone buys?
"Tread lightly, who lives in hope of pussy."
Also, I watched a rerun of West Wing a week or so ago that had a whole thing about "knowing the price of milk" as an indicator of being out of touch with reality. How did knowing the price of milk become a measure of out-of-touchness? Because, granted, my household income is on the highish end nationally (though not for the DC area), but we are not so well-off as to fall into the privileged class that is implied by the whole not-knowing-the-price-of-milk thing. But I have no IDEA what the price of milk is.
First of all, it CHANGES all the time -- depending on whatever special Safeway has running at the moment -- and second of all, milk is not an item you can comparison shop; if you want to buy a gallon of non-fat milk at the Capitol Hill Safeway, it's gonna be Lucerne. And THIRD of all, milk is an item that you kinda have to buy -- you can't have cereal without it -- and it's also an item you can't stockpile, so it's not something I'll put off buying until it's on special. So basically, I just grab the gallon, I don't watch the price -- I watch the grocery budget in other places.
Like chicken breasts -- I can tell you the price of chicken breasts: $5.79 a pound if you go at the worst time, a third that (or less) if you go when the bulk packages are buy-one-get-one-free. And baby carrots? $1.79 a pound if you buy the regular, $1.99 if you spring for the organic brand. Corn isn't worth buying until it gets below 4 ears for a dollar.
So how the heck did *milk* become the gold standard for knowing the price of groceries? Is it just because it's something almsot everyone buys?