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Old January 20th 17, 03:00 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
John Kasupski
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:24:35 -0500, jmcquown wrote:

Ah yes, the infamous Love Canal. I wouldn't want to eat anything grown
there either!


This entire Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan corridor is loaded with places
that are polluted with industrial waste, dumped chemicals, even radioactive
stuff that reads 30 times above background if you stand there with a Geiger
counter...which I've actually done. I know the woman who's in charge of disaster
planning for the county health department here, and I told her I wouldn't want
her job for all the tea in China.

I had a difficult time finding leeks when I wanted to make that soup
recently. Publix, which is a very large upscale supermarket in the
Southern US, didn't have any. The person working in the produce section
had no idea what leeks are, which surprised me since they're usually
pretty knowledgeable. I had to go to Food Lion to find them. I dislike
having to shop at different grocery stores to purchase ingredients for
one simple dish. Oh well, at least it was just across the street rather
than miles away!


Is it Publix that's right across the street from you, or are you telling me you
have a food store that's named for a big, beautiful cat right across the street
from you and expecting me to believe you didn't go directly there to begin with?

We hardly know one another, Jill...I hope you're not Lion to me already. :-)

I only go to upscale supermarkets to buy meat. Can't see paying $3.00 for a box
of spaghetti that tastes the same to me as what I get elsewhere for $0.99. But
maybe next time I go meat shopping, I'll swing by the produce section as well.

It won't be at Food Lion, though. I just found their website using DuckDuckGo
and searched with the store locator, and there isn't one within 50 miles of
here. If I'm going to travel that far to find leeks, I might as well just go
right down to PA and start randomly knocking on farmhouse doors.

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY