Visiting a supermarket with Miranda is always fun! It is really Miranda vs supermarkets 🙂
She really dislikes, how people squeeze hard in a bread to feel it is really fresh. Or how people go through the packages with cold cuts to get the one with the latest “best before date”, not realizing that they take all the other packages out of the cooled environment. And there are so many more examples.
Mir really refuses to buy food items at the supermarket. Things as washing powder is okay with her, but food.. no way! So for the bread we go to the bakery, for meat to the butcher, for vegetables and fruits we go to the greengrocer and so on.
Apart from the reasons mentioned above, the quality of the food at the specialized stores is much better and mostly more free of all kinds of additives to make it longer useable. Sure the prices may be a bit higher, but that is it well worth according Mir (and me as well).
So yes, taking Mir along to a supermarket is a fast way to get her grumpy. This morning again.
Mir went along to the supermarket to get the things that we normally buy there (as washing powder and such things). I warned her not to do so because it would be bad for her mood. She assured me it was okay.
When we entered the supermarket, I saw already that Mir’s face changed. There was a plate with orange segments and everybody was grabbing it. This goes against every hygienic rules Mir knows.
I told her to go and have a coffee at a nearby restaurant and that I would come there when I was done. No need to get in a bad mood this way.
I know that there are people who find this all ridicules, But please realize that “food” is Mir’s profession, she has to be serious about it. And consider what if she wasn’t that serious with the food that she might prepare for you…
And of course, every human is allowed to have his own little piece of craziness 🙂
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Not weird at all!
Specially food that is not packed I rather buy at a specialized shop as at a supermarket.
I also agree with Miranda. At times it almost disgusts what you see people do with the food in a supermarket.
It seems that people completely forget, or even don’t care, that maybe someone else will buy it after they “abused” the food.
I also prefer a good bakery or butcher above a supermarket, but sadly they are not open anymore when I come home from work.
See? I am not alone in this!
I never said you were alone in this, dear 🙂