You mean those germ ridden cloth bags and judging (yes, I judge) from the scruffy looking folks carrying said cloth bags, probably not laundered after each shopping trip. Ahh… the joys of PC.
In most parts of Argentina they will put your shopping into a plastic bag without asking if you don’t stop them in time. What most bugs me are the teeny-tiny bags in the pharmacy that you can’t re-use for anything. Over the years so many of the plastic nuissances have accumulated that I can’t even get rid of them all as garbage bags. For 4 years I’d been getting strange looks for using a hiker’s backpack and cloth bags to walk home my grocery shopping. Then the supermarkets started charging for plastic bags and suddenly everyone had cloth bags and trolleys :-)
Right on!..Now if people only realized how filthy most food stores are..There is a reason they keep their lights on 24 hours..“Want me to wrap this fruit in plastic so it stays clean, ma’am?”.No thanks. I always wash my produce when I bring it home..Now, if the wind would just blow down the neighbor’s plastic bags. They have been fifty feet up in our oak tree for the last two years.
There is a definite concern about the linking of increase incidents of food poisoning in the communities banning the use of disposable garbage bags. The use of reuasble garbage bags may not be environmentally friendly in that they may be filling up cemetaries with more mass than that being kept out of the landfills.
lippyfish over 11 years ago
and avoid the frozen foods
sbchamp over 11 years ago
FARK ’em!They double as small garbage bags
ncalifgirl58 over 11 years ago
I agree! I use my plastic and paper bags for lots of stuff and then recycle the ones I don’t use.
beerhunter12 over 11 years ago
Make sure to double those plastic bags.
doris sloan over 11 years ago
You mean those germ ridden cloth bags and judging (yes, I judge) from the scruffy looking folks carrying said cloth bags, probably not laundered after each shopping trip. Ahh… the joys of PC.
Adele Derwald over 11 years ago
In most parts of Argentina they will put your shopping into a plastic bag without asking if you don’t stop them in time. What most bugs me are the teeny-tiny bags in the pharmacy that you can’t re-use for anything. Over the years so many of the plastic nuissances have accumulated that I can’t even get rid of them all as garbage bags. For 4 years I’d been getting strange looks for using a hiker’s backpack and cloth bags to walk home my grocery shopping. Then the supermarkets started charging for plastic bags and suddenly everyone had cloth bags and trolleys :-)
Dani Rice over 11 years ago
I always use cloth bags, and yes, I wash them. And I suppose I’m an over-aged hippy – seventy-one and holding.
ellisaana Premium Member over 11 years ago
Right on!..Now if people only realized how filthy most food stores are..There is a reason they keep their lights on 24 hours..“Want me to wrap this fruit in plastic so it stays clean, ma’am?”.No thanks. I always wash my produce when I bring it home..Now, if the wind would just blow down the neighbor’s plastic bags. They have been fifty feet up in our oak tree for the last two years.
TheBigPickle over 11 years ago
That hippie hippie stare… lemme know when hippie hunting season starts…
banjinshiju over 11 years ago
There is a definite concern about the linking of increase incidents of food poisoning in the communities banning the use of disposable garbage bags. The use of reuasble garbage bags may not be environmentally friendly in that they may be filling up cemetaries with more mass than that being kept out of the landfills.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Reusable-Grocery-Bags-May-Present-Health-Risk-Study-Says-208978051.html
LOWRIDER84 over 11 years ago
Another of the MANY reasons to avoid Austin.A little piece of Moscow in Texas.