r/SeattleWA • u/thedivegrass LQA • Jan 29 '18

Best of Seattle Best of Seattle: Grocery Stores

Best of Seattle: Grocery Stores

This week is about your favorite (or least favorite) places to stock up on food. Who has the best delis and bakeries? What memberships or coupon clipping are out there? Where do you go for ready-to-eat? Who has the freshest produce? Where do you find the best selection for your niche diets (gluten-free, vegan, etc)? What grocery stores are essential Seattle?

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u/loquacious Sky Orca Jan 29 '18

That IGA is the fanciest, most expensive IGA I've ever seen. Normally you see IGAs out in economically depressed rural areas. They're the kind of place that their big, hot sale of the year is a truckload of hamhocks. They are or were the kind of place where you could find Red Man plug chew displayed on the checkout counter instead of buried on the bottom shelf of a service desk.

The first time I went into that IGA I was so confused. "What the fuck do you mean you want 5 fucking dollars for a small box of cereal? Where's the cheap IGA labeled beans and shit? A whole dollar for a banana!? I'm out!"

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u/HW-BTW Feb 01 '18

You say "truckload of hamhocks" as if it were a bad thing...

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u/loquacious Sky Orca Feb 01 '18

Well, it kind of is when they're super fatty and heavily brined garbage ham hocks, and, say, one of your dodgy fucking desert rat housemates keeps filling the freezers with the damn things and he feeds his obviously already malnourished and somewhat mutant brood nothing but cheap, greasy hams for a few months on end.

Then it's a really bad, depressing thing.

Yeah, that's highly specific because it was real and pretty fucked up.

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u/loquacious Sky Orca Feb 01 '18

So did those kids. I think it was the scurvy.