[LEMONS] 1.30.2002
I had totally forgotten about this....
Harp and I went shopping Sunday. We rotate grocery stores, ever since Falettis was torn down, we haven't had a regular store. We tend to rotate between Trader Joes, Cala, Real Foods (all in the neighborhood), and Andronicos and Whole Foods (both of which are too expensive), and, about one out of every three trips, we go to Rainbow, which I wrote was the best grocery in San Francisco two years ago (scroll a little more than halfway down. next to the sepia picture of some sort of tubers, where it says "produce, produce, produce.... ahhhh... that's it). Rainbow can be overpriced, and so socially concious as to make me feel positively Republican when I go there. But as much as I complain about it to Harper, they really do have the most kick-ass natural foods supermarket in the United States there. It's really quite an amazing place. Six kinds of kale. Who knew?
Anyway. There's something else I love and hate about Rainbow, which is that all of the Co-op workers are Punker Then Thou. Rainbow is DIY straight-edge vegan punk nirvana. Not Nirvana the band, though. No, no, no. They were on DGC. No Rainbow for you. Where was I? Oh yeah. Punk rock at Rainbow.
So I'm at Rainbow, right (and keep in mind this is no hole in the wall, Rainbow is easily larger than many full on Supermarkets I've been to), sorting through the big containers of liquid, looking for the dish soap, which I will squirt into a little plastic bottle and pay for by weight. Buying in bulk. No packaging. All that. Well I'm getting the soap, and all of the sudden I hear this very familiar drum beat/ guitar track come on.
And it's "Cashout," from "The Argument," right? And I'm like "Fugazi! Fugazi!" And so I pop the top on the container I was filling even though it wasn't full and go scampering all around to try to find Harper because, you know, I'd never heard Fugazi in a grocery store before and I was a little excited, right? And I'm like "Fugazi! Fugazi!" all up and down the aisles. And so I find her, over by the bins of rice, and I start to say "Fugazi! Fugazi!" and she's just all "I know, I know." And I'm like "Fugazi! Fugazi!" again in case it didn't register with her the first time, and although she was enthoused, she didn't begin to share in my level of Special Thrill. And I didn't really havemuch to say because they were playing Fugazi in the grocery. I mean, when do you hear Fugazi playing anywhere?
And so I guess the point of this is that I love Rainbow.
"Fugazi! Fugazi!"
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