Hey, cracker! Be more of a cracker!

[thistlechaser]

I never did rant about (or finish my Yelp review on) my local grocery store. My beloved Safeway. Just a minute or two drive from my apartment, I've been shopping there for more than ten years.

Then they got self-scan machines in.

When it's an option, I have no problem with scanning my purchases myself. When it's an option. It's not an option at my Safeway anymore, it's required. (Sometimes they have one single check-out lane open, but when they do, there's a massive line for it.)

Self-scanning is fine for a few items, but it's a royal pain in the butt for an entire cart full of crap. It takes a LONG time, and the machines error out endlessly. (Plus the stations aren't made for scanning a whole cart of groceries, which makes it even more frustrating.)

Anyway, Lunchables were on sale, which usually would still not be enough to make me buy them, but I stopped and looked at what they are: Crackers + cheese + turkey or ham. If I'm going to eat crackers with cheese anyway, this was kind of a handy packing. 4/$5 was a really good price, too. So I got them.

The meat in them is pretty icky. I don't really like wet meat. So I eat the cheese and the crackers, but tonight the cheese stuck together so I had crackers left over at the end and ate one plain. It was sweet. What the heck? Nothing like a cracker at all.

I guess if we needed further proof these were evil made for kids, it's putting meat and cheese on a darned cookie.

On a related note, I had wheat thins for the first time in decades. They were amazingly good, like a really crisp cookie. Last time I had them they were thick and woven with "wheat" (something whole-wheat, nasty to eat). Today's wheat thins I'd happy eat as a cookie replacement. Oddness. They really need a new name.

RP continues to be good. I continue to fight off some kind of sickness (I went downhill this morning, but feel quite good tonight). Cruise is booked, vacation time is approved. Passport is in the works (takes a couple months for them to mail it out, but the paperwork is all submitted). Now if only the weekend were a few months long, life would be perfect! :P

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Wait, you mean your Lunchables cheese didn't come pre-stucktogetherinamass? Mine ALWAYS came like that. For like 5 years in school it came like that. But yes, they aren't really crackers. Although not really cookies either. I can't really think of what they would be.

I remember I would make super stacks out of them and pretty much eat the entire pack in one super cookie cracker sandwich thing.

I hadn't thought about a Passport for the cruise. I thought you were just going to Alaska? Or is it because you'll be going through Canadian waters/making Canadian stops on the way? Or is it some weird American thing about leaving the mainland?

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

I think what you had before sound more like Triscuits than Wheat Thins, what do you think?

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Iiiiii hate the self-checkout lines. I have enough control to do MINOR things, but then when, inevitably, something goes wrong in the major things, I have to WAIT to let someone else fix it. And often I have to wait A LONG TIME.

Gr.

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

They are putting sugar in everything, to make it taste better. So we'll eat more and buy more. Well, corn syrup, but it's the same thing.

And I agree with you, if I have more than a couple items, I prefer to wait for the real checker. I have worked as a bagger (Courtesy Clerk :) before and I'm happy to let someone else do it now. Sometimes, I even say "Yes" when they ask me if I want help to the car.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I think you're getting Wheat Thins confused with Triscuits. Wheat Thins have always been, well, thin. ;) Triscuits, on the other hand, is almost like a cracker made out of shredded wheat. Wheat Thins and cream cheese are for the win, but imo, Triscuits are nasty.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

If they are going to require self-scanning, then they also need to do what my local grocery store did and provide hand-held scanners and bags so you can scan and bag as you go. Yes, it does make it easier to shoplift, but I think enough people are honest that the losses are manageable.

I actually like doing the self-scanning as I go, because it usually means I don't have to spend that much time in the checkout. But my grocery store also still has a good amount of actual checkout lines. And people do need jobs!

Also, you probably are thinking of Triscuits, like other people have said. I like the new flavored Triscuits that they have now, though. The rosemary and the black pepper ones are tasty.

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

ps - Princess is running a special that my mom got the phone rep to do, buy an ocean view get a balcony cabin, it saved us $300/cabin

[sahn.livejournal.com]

Kinda funny. When I read your title, I thought your post was going to be about white people.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I love Lunchables, but I know they're not healthy. Typically I only eat the pizza ones though. =x