June 1, 2008
Today was Show Beanie the Cool Food Stores in San Diego Day! YAY! We just got back from visiting Henry's Market, Whole Foods, and Bristol Farms. Each store is unique and fun in its own way.The first stop was Henry's Market. It's where normal people like me go (shut up). The prices are good and the selection is wonderful. Beanie almost swooned when she saw artichokes the size of cannonballs for just $1.50 each. I think something like that should go into everyone's earthquake survival kit. It could feed a family of five for at least two days.
Henry's used to be called Boney's. Good thing they changed the name. For obvious reasons. Well, okay, it's because everybody called it Boner's (shut up).
Here is a pretty shot of Henry's.
Then it was off to La Jolla (pronounced LA-HOY-AH with your chin jutting forward like Thurston Howell's chin on Gilligan's Island). It's a great place with the best deli on the planet. We got some sides and had ourselves a meal.
Presentation is everything in this store. Check out those cascades of grapes! I try to cascade my grapes at home but they just fall off the counter. So I admire them from a distance at Whole Foods. Oooh! Ahhhh!
And then...last but not least...Bristol Farms (once again in La Jolla). This store is so fookin' fancy it has its own fookin' deli just for cheese! We cruised and sampled everything. Yummithy! Beanie found some sort of asparagus appetizer thing in the frozen food section - a 5-ounce box that sold for $17.99. This is a very expensive store!
So Beanie bought a single peach at Bristol Farms. I settled for the free cheese.
And now we are updating from a coffeeshop in my neighborhood. There is a young woman here talking on her cell phone and laughing at something. Normally, that doesn't bother me, but she is extremely loud and she sounds like a fookin' horse on crack. A crack-horse whinny laugh that is weird enough to curl my toes. Oh well, it's all part of the charm. There is a Starbucks across the street, and we gave them the stink eye when we parked the car. Why go to Starbucks where you have to PAY for the internet and there aren't any crack-horse whinny laughers anywhere?
And that is all for now. This dream of a vacation and road trip time is drawing to a close. Fook fook fook is how I feel about that.
