This is why I lurve Consumer Reports, when they save me from straight up wasting my money on some shit I was about to toss in the cart next time I bother to do actual grocery shopping instead of running in and out of the store every other day because there’s nothing in the house to eat besides a jar of cocktail onions and some stray gummy coke bottles.
Have you seen these? They’re called, ‘Green Bags’ and the lying ass charlatan with her name on them claims they will “prolong the life of your fruits and vegetables” by absorbing the gases your produce releases which allegedly causes them to go bad. You can read the low down for yourself, but basically CR has busted Green Bags’ claims by using Ziploc bags, regular supermarket plastic bags or no bag at all. In fact, according to CR these piece of shit Green Bags couldn’t keep the mold offa anything (except bananas, but they come self insulated for fucks’ sake).
Few things piss me off like a product that promises something it’s never going to deliver. And in these times with all the crap we humans insist on producing, well, there’s just no need for so much of the shit we see on the shelves every day. In this case, Debbie Meyer can take her useless Green Bags and use ’em for all the bullshit she’s shoveling.
June 4, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Nice!!! I love it when you get feisty!
June 4, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I’ll come over and eat the gummy coke bottles. See, that way you get rid of random junk food, and I get yummy cola-flavored tooth decay.
June 5, 2008 at 8:57 am
Those fucking commercials make me want to throw up. I don’t need to see some nasty-ass tomatoes to be convinced to buy your damn green bags. In fact, because you’ve disgusted me to the point of never ever wanting to eat a vegetable again, you’ve just lost a customer FO’ LIFE, Debbie Meyer. How do you like them non green bag protected apples?
June 5, 2008 at 9:43 am
I live for good produce, but the stuff I buy always seems to go bad before I can use it. So yeah, I was nearly suckered by these green bags. I guess nothing will keep my foods fresh, and no amount of re-arranging my schedule will help me get to the store more than once a week. So, frozen green beans it is!
June 5, 2008 at 10:39 am
@biscuit: I always go through this with basil. Every week I buy fresh basil with the intent of making this lemon and basil pasta dish that makes me weak in the knees, and then for one reason or another I don’t make it and the basil rots whether I leave it in the fridge or on the counter. CR said they stored produce in Ziplocs (which somehow never occurred to me) so yesterday I put the basil in a baggie and then in the fridge – we’ll see.
June 5, 2008 at 11:22 am
@Kadinsky: My roommate and I suffered a similar problem. She’d buy basil for something, we’d use some of it, but the rest would go bad and be wasted. Our solution? Chia Herb Garden. I kid you not. We now have a wee basil plant, a tiny parsley plant, and a small dill plant.
June 5, 2008 at 11:41 am
Kadinsky: You can keep your basil going strong by snipping the ends and putting in in water (like fresh-cut flowers). The basil will root and start growing even! You can plant that shite, if you want to! Otherwise, this extends the life of the basil at least 10-fold. Also, basil in a vase like this will make your kitchen smell muy bonita!
Great tip for asparagus, too. I got so sick and tired of cutting 50% of those $4.99/pound stalks off and throwing out (you know? the “inedible” stuff) when I found in a vegan cookbook that if you trim 1/2 to 1-inch and put in water and keep in the fridge for a few days the asparagus reconstitutes and you have to cut much less off the ends. Better tasting, too.
June 5, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Great tips all!! Now I can stop wasting basil and keep my kitchen smelling nice!
June 6, 2008 at 2:27 am
Fuck a green bag, yo. DoucheBAGS, more like.
June 6, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Awesome suggestions! I almost got suckered by the green bags just the other day. I’m gonna go drop some rebate check on a CR subscription right now. I bet it will pay for itself within a week.
Has anyone seen that CR for teh wimmins? I bought it at the airport and it made me very, very sad.