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Submitted by reeses on Mon, 2003-01-27 00:05.

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I have finally found a half-way tolerable grocery store in DC. Not a great one, but it's better than a stab in the eye with a carrot stick. It's the Whole Foods in Bethesda, out River Road, not too far from DC.

In the same vein as the pootie scale mentioned last night, I have created the Larry's scale for grocery stores, normalised on the Oak Tree Larry's in Seattle. Whole Foods on Sacramento or California or whatever in SF is 50 millilarry's. Tower Market in SF, near Twin Peaks, is about 80 millilarry's. Whole Foods in Tenleytown in DC is about 60 millilarry's, only because of their cheese selection. Giant Foods in the DC area are all around 30-40 millilarry's. D'Agostino's in NYC run around 800 microlarry's.

The Whole Foods discovered today was about 100 millilarry's. Kat and I both agreed on this figure, and have decided that it is the best grocery store we've found so far in the DC area.

This, more than any other reason, is why Goose is a crackhead, in my arrogant opinion. Small towns and bad locations do matter, because I can't get the food I like in most towns. Heck, I can't get produce at the hypersupermegamarts here like I can in a mom&pop corner store in Seattle. I was laughing today because all of the produce in Whole Foods had "California Grown" stickers.

What I want is a place like SF, in terms of population and weather, with the food of Seattle. I can't get that in the Appalachians.

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