I'll Never Understand Grocery Stores

I don't cook, so by extension I don't go into grocery stores very often.* This afternoon I got dragged into one. Here's what I found.

*I do, however, love suburban grocery stores, if only for their size and staggering choices of processed foods.


Apparently it's 1953 in Gristede's.


You know what makes this cookie French? Because it's wearing a beret.


I don't even know what's going on with this creepy/phallic children's goody bag toy. Based on the typeface I'd say it's been in the store since 1991. And they wonder why it's not selling...

Gristede's Lacks In South American Geography

, originally uploaded by La Pauline.

On the day that a major earthquake hit Chile, you would think that Gristede's would spell the name of the country correctly.