Adrianna Tan
When I first watched Dexter I thought it was unrealistic that he had so much plastic wrap and then I came to America. To a business Costco, specifically
I was just telling someone how it’s taking me years to finish my 1000 sq ft roll of aluminum foil from Costco
Adrianna Tan
Five gallons of soy sauce. 60 lb of honey. 3 gallons of dill pickles.
Adrianna Tan
Sometimes when I watch documentaries about Pompeii excavations I think of future excavations of suburban America.
‘People bought things in physically impossible sizes’
‘There was so much abundance, but only for the people who already have lots of stuff’
‘We are reconsidering our assumptions of how humans in the 21st lived, because we found kitchen condiments in vat sizes that don’t make sense’
Adrianna Tan
@mem yeah it’s ridiculous. Cooking oil is very very cheap if you can buy a lot of it, compared to supermarket prices (same price for a fraction of the amount)
Marcelo Magallon
@skinnylatte uh. I looked up the price. $20 for 3000 ft.
At my local supermarket I pay $5 for 100 ft. I would pay $150 for 3000 ft!!! That's 7.5 times more expensive!!!
Adrianna Tan
@lemay oooh no but totally right up my alley
laura lemay
@skinnylatte Have you seen "Motel of the Mysteries"?
Adrianna Tan
Other things you can get at Costco.
80 lbs of cheese: $1099
A coffin: $1599
Adrianna Tan
This product photo really made me laugh
Adrianna Tan
@joannaholman AMAZE
Joanna Holman
@skinnylatte have you seen one of the greatest photoshoots of all time from the gymnast sponsored by the cheese company?
Adrianna Tan
@WTL all imported cheese is much more expensive here vs local cheese
WTL
@skinnylatte That cheese feels really expensive.
$1099 = ~$1,500 🇨🇦
80 lbs =36.3 kg
~$41/KG🇨🇦 / $13.75/LBS USD.
I paid >$5 for 400 grams today, about $12.5(🇨🇦)/ KG or ~$4.25/LBS USD.
Never realized it was so much more expensive there.
400 5
1000 x
Gabriel N
“(…) some of these vats of food ingredients were used in elaborate funeral arrangements, when part of society interred themselves alive: whole families with their belongings and even sacrificial pets, looking to transcend to another plane of existence”
“The cult used to be called «preppers» and what they left behind has been a source of understanding on the strange ways of this peoples, now lost to time”
Adrianna Tan
@wtrmt good one!
Adrianna Tan
@alien the reasonable explanation is that it’s split into many portions, but it is not.
Things where I am are consistently 3x larger a portion size than where I come from; and people from elsewhere in the U.S. consider SF portion sizes to be tiny.
Alien🍉
@skinnylatte When I (Spaniard) went to the US to visit family as a teenager, I remember being very confused at sizes. I remember the first time I went to the grocery store, I saw a sale of a really huge bucket of chicken nuggets + a gallon of sweet tea and I was trying to figure out why.
Fortunately my family there is Colombian+Venezuelan and therefore they cook reasonable meals but ?? Confusing af
Adrianna Tan
@econads @alien people have a different approach to eating out. When they go out they expect to have enough to take home for another meal. I don’t know why that’s just part of the culture. People get very upset if the portion is ‘so small’ that they can’t do that. I’ve not really experienced this elsewhere
econads
@skinnylatte @alien so does all the food get eaten or is it just massively wasteful?
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