I do not generally shop at Wal-mart, and I don't think I've been there since we started our no-processed-foods experiment, so it was a bit of a shock--perhaps a bit like dropping a vegetarian into a meat-packing plant. I think I went up and down all the aisles a few times just soaking it all in.
One aisle in particular surprised me.
I don't watch television or read any of the more "sensationalistic" news sources, so I fall behind a lot, but when did people start building bomb shelters again? There's an entire aisle of this stuff. Are communes on the rise again? I didn't even WANT to know what was in the 2-pound can of "butter powder," but odds are pretty high it didn't have anything to do with butter.And look!
Bean dip is now an "impulse buy!" Yummy!
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Ha ha, that cracks me up. I try to stay as far away from Walmart as possible. Every other month, though, I've been having to go to get toiletry items as our Target is being rebuilt into a SuperTarget. There is so much stuff that it's hard to take it all in. That powdery stuff - weird!
A lot of this stuff is bought buy LDS (Mormons) who try to maintain a certain amount of larder at all times. They also have to rotate it out, which means, eww, cooking with that butter stuff. Many of my LDS friends have huge amounts of stuff in their "special place" ready for the end times or whatever it is that is coming (I forget what it is).
Employee No. 1 at my biz is convinced that the magnetic poles are going to switch in 2012 and the world is going to end. He is apparently busy building some kind of buried cement bunker in his back yard... And, No, I'm not making this up. Its too weird to be made up.
I'll be sure to mention the egg powder to him. ;-)
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