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>>22010907
I hardly ever eat fast food now. For the garbage that they serve, the prices they're asking are insane. That's about it really though, I'm lucky enough to make enough money to still go to real restaurants once or twice a week, and I get whatever groceries I want without worrying about what they cost.
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No.
Rising prices seem to mostly affect beef, packaged foods and things that aren't in the weekly circular. Pork chops and chicken breasts are still $2/lb. Ground beef is still $3/lb. Chicken drumsticks or thighs are still $1/lb. Carrots and onions are still 69¢/lb or less. Monkfish went up 33% but it's still under $5/lb ($3.99 now rather than $2.99). Apples are still 50¢/lb. Etc etc etc
Couple that with my tendency to coupon and the fact that I don't really like beef very much (and my wife generally won't eat it) and we're not affected much yet at all. I'm sure we'll be fucked sideways eventually but it hasn't happened yet.
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>>22010907
more pork and chicken, less beef
I also eat extra firm tofu now but that's mostly because aldi sells it at prices that make it competitive with pork and chicken and unlike meat I can throw it in a marinade and eat it raw when I have no will to cook.
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>>22011093
>Just lies
Everything has gone up and fuel prices/fertilizer loss will make it worse.
Shitty walmart water-injected chicken breast in bulk is 2.60 a pound and real fucking chicken is double that. Ground beef is 7 dollars a pound. All of the prices you're posting are half of the cheapest crap in reality.
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>>22011093
>ground beef is still 3/lb
in what universe? are you in Mexico? like the other guy said your post is literally just lies. post proof of 3 dollar ground beef or seek mental help.
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>>22011167
More like I don't play games and don't have 12 subscriptions, also don't eat sweets and snacks nor I drink alcohol/sodas. I eat very simple, meat/dairy/eggs/ and sometimes fruits and certain veggies. I do have hobbies but they are not very expensive. I just have one relatively expensive hobby and thats it.
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>>22010910
I'm eating out more since meat is somehow less expensive at restaurants.
>>22010907
Yeah, I'm growing more food.
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>>22011169
Pizza is the easiest meme food to make. Oven are fucking hot enough.
>>22011142
I picked up 300kg of fertilizer a month ago. Going to pick up a bit more. Looking for Urea right now.
>>22011101
They grow their own feed...
>>22011145
That was me a couple years ago, but I got a parking ticket the other day, and was like, that's half a gas tank...
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>>22011220
New fucking York? Philadelphia? Chicago? Boston? All of those places. Want me to prove it? I bought a pack last week and stashed it in the freezer. I'm thawing it tomorrow for Novena de Mayo because Cinco fell on a weekday and we're doing our cookout the day before Mother's Day instead for some fucking reason. We couldn't have it last Saturday because that was the area carnival/craft thingy. So tomorrow it is.
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>>22011142
Again, would you want me to prove it, you only semisentient sack of shit?
Just because you're garbage at shopping and buy everything at jacked-up-ass Walmart (they're MORE expensive than literally anywhere else! WHY DO PEOPLE SHOP THERE?!) doesn't mean the rest of us share your retardation.
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>>22011367
And you get fleeced $7/lb for ground beef lmao
>>22011507
Sure. I have to take it out of the freezer anyway. I might still have the receipt in my car, too. Gimme a few minutes.
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>>22011790
$10.41 ÷ 3.48lbs = $2.99/lb
This was an advertised sale price in last week's flyer. I might still have that laying around somewhere, too. It was also the sale price a couple weeks ago. And the sale price a couple weeks before that. It's the perennial sale price.
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Kinda?
Mostly health and conscientious reasons though.
I contracted fatty liver disease at some point so I switched over from red meats to mostly fish and chicken, and eating a lot more vegetables.
I also switched from individual cuts to whole birds, plus smoking.
Saved me some money and improved my health, but I started looking at how much stuff I was throwing out. Giblets, carrots/celery/pepper ends, chicken bones, chicken skins. I realized how much I was wasting and started feeling kinda responsible for the death of these birds. Hell, if I was killed to be eaten, would I want to see my pelvic bone dumped straight into the trash? So I got more creative.
1) Giblets to the pets
2) Smoked skins saved and deepfried for parties as gribenes (oy vey)
3) Bones and vegetable ends into broth
4) Fat skimmed from the broth reused as schmaltz
Everything left after that is so thoroughly cooked to shit that I just throw it straight into the compost. And the bones don't attract pests because there's no marrow left.
End results?
I've gotten so good at making broths and smoked meats in the past 4 years that I've actually started winning cooking competitions at my company. And when people ask me how I do it, I don't know how to tell them I've been feeding them literal trash.
Feels pretty good though.
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>>22011829
No, I didn't use a coupon. The "coupon" you're seeing is just how they tack on sale prices now to make sure "limit: 1" is followed and it's available to everyone. We bought the smallest pack because, as I said earlier, my wife didn't really fuck with beef like that but they had trays close to 7lbs the day I bought that one.
Like I said, I can see if we still have that circular somewhere. Sadly, Albertsons stores delete old circulars so it's gone from their site now so the only way to prove the point is to show you the advertised price. And like I said, this sale price rotates in every couple of weeks. Like, we didn't buy any the last time it went on sale in mid April.
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>>22011854
so the package says one thing, the receipt says the same thing, and i'm supposed to believe that's wrong?
even if that were the case (doubt) beef isn't *still* $3/lb, it's $3/lb if you get it on two different sales at the same time
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>>22011858
So you're telling me that there is a coupon for exactly $6.98 off of something. Cuz yeah. That happens. </sarcasm>
No.
The ad specifically says $2.99/lb and that's exactly what $10.41 ÷ 3.48/lbs is. Ask yourself what's more likely: a $2.99/lb pricetag that the Point of Sale system marks up weird or a coupon for a bizarrely specific number that just happens to actually line up with exactly $2.99/lb?
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>>22011858
>two different sales at the same time
That's not how sales work, ya dingus.
A store will not have one sale on beef for $4.99/lb and another for $3.99/lb at the same time. And they wouldn't compound the two together if they did.
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>>22011886
I did not, they came out okay. Not nearly as dry as most people say, I think they may just be overcooking it. It tastes alright, but it's weirdly soft, like meatloaf.
I think I'll stick to mainly using it for taco meat and gravy noodles.
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>>22012031
Oh, is that a fact?
By the way, are you the same retard who has claimed numerous times in the past that advertised sale prices don't count? Cuz you're arguing just like that retard and I really didn't want to believe there are multiple retards retarded enough to do that.
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>>22012098
That was my reaction when I moved here and saw these stores lol
No good sales there this week but they might give some decent personal coupons tomorrow. Either way, we ate pork chops and mushrooms from >>22012077 for dinner tonight. Mushroom gravy smothered pork chops with buttery-ass mashed potatoes, sauteed beets and baby kale salad. Was good. Love me some pork. And still paid only $2.99/lb for ground beef.
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>>22011154
What really makes me wonder is when we'll see grey market/black market meat sales. I wonder when the gangs are going to steal meat and sell it out of the back of Ethnic markets or at informal swap meets for half the store price.
>>22011093
Post proof and general region. THe cheapest I have seen since COVID was in Arkansas at 1.98 a lb for pork and 99 cents for chicken in 2023.
>>22010907
Yes.
• Not as much fast food.
• I stockpiled dry beans and rice, far more than usual.
• I buy more in bulk to hedge against prices inevitably rising.
• I shop at a salvage grocery store.
• I eat in more and cook more traditional items.
• Soda? Unless it's on sale, forget it. Alcohol? Same.
• More ground turkey, chicken, and sausage.
>>22011169
Pre-made Delivery Pizza is such an expensive pile of bullshit. The Pizzas are worse than they were, you can't get a decent amount of pizza for under 60 bucks, and they don't even have delivery drivers/teenagers delivering the pizza, instead you get some Arab/Indian Redeemer delivering your doordash in their nasty ass Altima. God help you if you don't/forget to tip. Fuck that gay shit. For 1/3rd the total cost you can get four premium frozen pizzas at Walmart, or just go even cheaper and make your own.
>>22011817
That ain't 3 bucks a pound. That's three bucks with coupon. I want a native price, friendo. NO digital coupon gimmicks.
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>>22012109
No, but you are.
>>22012113
>That ain't 3 bucks a pound
Correct. It's a penny less.
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>>22010907
Same as many other anons: almost no fast food, restaurants less frequently, I never get beef at the grocery store anymore, and seething several times a year now when my staples go up 10%
>>22011101
So you’re advising to buy Mennon(ite)?
>>22011866
I think the exact opposite of you was the previous user of my office chair
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I'm trying more foraging and gathering. Not really due to finances, but it does seem like a useful thing to learn if conditions worsen. I'm not much of a hunter-gatherer, so it's taking time to figure out which plants are edible, what they look like at different life-stages, which parts are edible at which stages, etc.
Also, it turns out that most US states have various species which are considered invasive or pests and can be hunted/harvested with minimal regulations. Not that I'd want to be eating coyotes or something, but crayfish turned out to be abundant and easy.
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no, but ive always been a frugal shopper
i havnt really noticed my grocery bill being substantially higher other than i cant find really cheap cuts of beef any more
funny i can still find deals on higher end cuts
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>>22010907
I have the cheapest eggs more often whereas I would usually go for free range before.
Other than that, I mostly accept that food is more expensive and try not to care too much about it. I do miss the old days of being able to eat really healthy for literally nothing. I also noticed that produce is often spoiled and still being sold.
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>>22012630
>it's on clearance
It's literally not.
>You're schizophrenic.
Taking fifteen seconds while I'm in the checkout line to tap a screen to pay less for ground beef is not schizophrenia. But you enjoy your "real priced" ground beef and I'll enjoy my cheaper but otherwise identical "fake price" ground beef. Anyway, I'm about to head outside to the courtyard and help set up the shade tent thingy and my ice machine. Keep needlessly overpaying, amigo! Financial victimhood is fun!
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>>22012605
>things like chicken hearts used to be pretty much free a few years ago.
I'm gonna pick up a bunch of Gillette razors for 79¢ later, after the cookout is done. BOGO 50% off sale. $8 normal price. 40% off one item coupon. $4 off two packs manufacturer coupon. $4 ExtraBucks. That's $8 for the one pack + 50% for the second pack = $12 for the pair - 40% from the first pack = $8.79 for the pair - $4 coupon - $4 ExtraBucks = 79¢. Oh, and it gets me a second ExtraBucks reward. So it's almost like I'm paying negative $3.21 for them lol
Anyway, out to the courtyard!
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>>22010907
I am so porkmaxxed it's unreal now, beef is obviously long gone, even chicken I don't usually fuck with anymore. It's bacon, pork chops, pork steaks, pork ribs. Also dialing down my snacky impulse buys because a little fucking thing of dip is like $10 for an ever-shrinking tub of hummus, guac, or whatever else
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>>22012077
>biggest bulk pack possible
>dirt grade ground anus cartilage "meat"
>Limit One
>have to use a Digital Coupon
>all from the cheapest ghetto store imaginable named after the place wile e. coyote gets his anvils and rockets from
Ultimately, this just supports the claim. With all of these adjustments applied it should be like 50c/lb
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>>22012691
Chicken hearts are fantastic you fucked up little retard, they're delicious little dark meat flavor bombs and still the cheapest chicken part by weight in addition to being the most nutritious meat on the bird. Pure obvious win
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>>22012658
this shit reminds me of the linuxtards
>yeah you can save $3 if you just spend 4 hours hyper-optimizing every possible combination of timing, sales, coupons, offers, and manufacturer refunds
only worth it if your time is worth nothing. i guess if you are completely destitute and all you do is sit in your cardboard box house waiting to die and your weekly grocery budget is about $12 this makes sense to do. have fun in the yard prison-anon
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>>22011101
Dunno if they are similar but I live near a lot of Mormons and used to buy from them but stopped immediately after they started sending dudes dressed like they time traveled from the 1950's to try and convert me. Don't get involved with religious loonies, it's not worth it.
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>>22012870
Yeah, 15 seconds to actually check out with it. How long watching sales and collecting coupons and shit? It's like a part of his daily routine to check everything and keep track of all of it so that he can pounce on The Deals when the stars align. That shit is not a 15 second job.
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>>22013848
You should be able to add long as they're different issuers, like from the manufacturer and one from the store. >>22012658's 40% off is probably a CVS store coupon and his $4 off is probably a Gillette coupon so he can use them together.
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>>22013454
idk about u but I would rather pay $2.99/lb for ground beef than $6.99/lb >>22011093
tell us ur secrets, coupon mommy (only women coupon)
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>>22013471
Nope. 15 seconds might be a slight exaggeration, what between taking my phone out of my pocket, unlocking the screen and getting to the coupons bookmark, but once there, there's a search function. Besides that, you can just scan what you're buying with your phone and most store apps will match coupons to what you're getting.
It really doesn't take much time at all. Honestly.
The front page also tends to recommend the highest value deals just to get you in the door. For example, besides CVS, I just went to ShopRite and got 4 jars of Barilla pesto, 4 bags of Barilla pasta al bronzo and paid $7 and change for the lot because when I opened the front page yesterday to check if it's too late to order a cake for our cookout, it was advertised big as fuck. That shit is $26 without coupons, bruh.
>>22012870
Exactly. I spent 15ish seconds to save ~$7. If you want to talk about what my "time is worth", that's $1680/hour ($7 × four 15-second increments per minute × 60 minutes in an hour = $1680). If your time is worth more than that, then bully for you. Otherwise, you've no argument here. None.
>cardboard box
lolno
One of my neighbours mentioned yesterday that she recently had her place reinsured and her house was valued at $1,3 million.
>>22012661
Is that a fact? Tell me, what did I write that implies I can't? What is evident, however, is that the lot of you can't do simple arithmetic.
>>22013904
Exactly.
>>22013907
Already did
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>>22013454
Yeah, in pre-trump times, coupons and sales dropped ground beef down to as little as 99¢/lb. Inflation is real. All I said is that it hasn't affected other things as much as it has beef. Beef went up 200%! Carrots used to be 50¢/lb and they're now 69¢/lb, an increase of "only" 38%. It's still an increase, but it's not 200% like beef fucking is. That's the only point I was making. We don't eat much beef so we're not that affected yet and it's been steady at $3/lb since COVID while full cuts are ridiculous. I saw a half brisket for $134 today. Fuck outta here with that bullshit.
>>22012781
Your argument contradicts itself.
You imply it's too much beef (but BIGGEST BULK PACK POSSIBLE! WAAAAH!) and also too little beef (limit one per customer?!?! IT'S ANUDDUH SHOA!).
You can't have it both ways. It's either to much or not enough. Make up your mind.
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>>22013913
anon how long are you going to carry out this humiliation ritual
who forced you into this
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>>22015131
You just sign up for store apps and pick the ones you want. That's literally all there is to it. They can't help but trip over themselves to give you points and coupons. Example, we needed a new fridge to replace one that stopped working, yeah? Well, one store offers 4× points on gift cards /to other stores/ purchased on weekends. So I bought a $500 gift card to Home Depot (no activation fee) on a Saturday, "earned" 2000 points to the supermarket, bought us the new fridge and cashed in those points for $28 worth of meat and $6 worth of produce not to mention that the card was on a promotion so it printed out a $10 off coupon on the receipt. What I SHOULD have done was buy ten individual $50 gift cards because it turns out that the $10 off coupons print out with every individual $50 and up gift card purchase. Oops. And actually, you don't even need to sign up to get that $10. I forgot to sign in and had to argue with customer service to get my 2000 points added to the account and my receipt printed with the coupon anyway.
If you're afraid of giving up personal information to the Piggly Wiggly or whatever your local supermarket is, just use fake info. There are a couple downsides to that, though. You can't order pickup or delivery since they need to contact you with the pickup code or need an address to deliver to and you don't get text offers for other discounts (like I just got one texted to me this Saturday for $10 off groceries, excluding milk, tobacco, alcohol etc) among other things.
I know of at least one store, not a supermarket, though, that prints out coupons even without an account. CVS.
I bought Tide last week (using a $3 off manufacturer coupon and $12 off store coupon to get it for free) and a bottle of Dawn (with manufacturer coupon to get it for $4.99) and got a $4 off coupon and a 40% off coupon on the receipt which I rolled into the razors I mentioned in >>22012658 (they were actually 85¢ after tax).
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>>22015483
>I forgot to sign in and had to argue with customer service to get my 2000 points added
>cashed in those points for $28 worth of meat and $6 worth of produce
>$10 off coupon
>researching all this shit, making an extra stop at a grocery store to buy a gift card before going to home depot, and then arguing with customer service all for $44
Yeah, I would pay $44 to not have to deal with that shit. Surely you're wasting $44 somewhere else in your budget, and if you aren't, I can't imagine this is worth the hassle.
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>>22015131
>coupon mommy
Yeah, he talks like a bitch. I could see him actually being one.
>>22015613
What hassle? Do you go to the grocery store to just buy one thing? No? I know I fucking wouldn't. So why would you assume "Coupon Mommy" did? "He" probably bought a full load of groceries with the card but if "he" didn't, then "he" is the most retarded retard in Retardsberg, Retardsylvania.
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>>22015638
>What hassle?
I just said, researching all this shit, making an extra stop at a grocery store to buy a gift card before going to home depot, and then arguing with customer service.
His fridge is broken, so he's gonna have to go back to the grocery to get refrigerated items after he gets his new fridge, retard.
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>>22015657
If your fridge broke, and you just bought a new fridge, you are going to need to purchase refrigerated items to put inside of it. Is this actually difficult to understand for you?
>Research what?
What stores have what coupons and how those coupons can be aquired and used? Or were born with that knowledge?
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>>22015665
This retard thinks refrigerators are magically cold immediately after delivery lol
>how to coupons
Didn't he say the app scans and automatically pairs coupons to what you're buying? I haven't tried it yet but I signed up for Safeway app because of this thread
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>>22015638
lol
Yeah, I did get a load of groceries. Lemme see if I can remember what it all was. We were using the mini fridge from my college days as a backup so I know I didn't get a lot of refrigerated stuff.
Milk, bread, four cases of seltzer water, mushrooms, tomatoes, six hoagie rolls, a clamshell of spring mix, two packs of smoked tuna (that we made into hoagies for lunch that day with the tomatoes and lettuce as well as onion; only reason I remember the other purchases is because of the hoagies) and I know I got other stuff but I don't remember it all.
I paid for the gift card at customer service first before paying for the groceries at the register because the registers at this location can't activate gift cards, just customer service. So I got the points for the groceries but not for the card until I showed them the receipt and the clipped multiplier in the app.
>>22015657
Yeah, mostly shelf stable.
>>22015613
>Surely you're wasting $44 somewhere else in your budget
Maybe but as soon as I or my wife realise that, we fix it asap. It's like… where we live, you get a 10% discount on your property tax if you pay it early. We pay it every December, as soon as we get it because why the hell wouldn't we? But I know several people who put it off and pay hundreds of dollars (or even into low thousand) more on their taxes than they need to and I just don't understand why. Our tax is slightly over $10k and we save $1050 every year paying the bill early. As soon as my wife heard about that, we started doing it.
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>>22015641
>research
Again, no research necessary. You people think I spend 4 hours daily trying to figure out the best way to save money but it just isn't true. I open the app once a week, look what's on sale and what's got coupons and go buy it if we need or want it and scan in the store while there. Or I just notice ways to game the system that other shoppers just don't. Like last year, Acme had a ten for $10 sale and Rice a Roni was one of the things that were part of that. Each box of the new variety, Thai Curry Chicken, had a 50¢ off paper coupon on it. Acme doubles paper coupons and those coupons worked on any variety of Rice a Roni. So I got ten boxes completely free while other people are paying for them.
>>22015679
Yeah, it's pretty much automatic but even things that aren't, I just kinda notice shit pretty much immediately and pounce, like I did with the Rice a Roni. And the razors. And the Tide.
I think that once you start doing it, you just develop the intuition for it and you don't need to research at all. Like, Memorial Day barbecuing is coming up so expect sales on ground beef, chicken drumsticks and soda as well as other typical cookout stuff. That's what I was getting at when I said in >>22011854 that
>this sale price rotates in every couple of weeks
Sales are cyclical and predictable. Coupons, too.
>>22015665
See >>22015681
I was using a backup fridge. I think pretty much every homeowner has a fridge in the garage or basement these days.
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>>22016004
I stopped ordering them post COVID. The cunts are $3.50 each now and half the size they used to be. Fuck that bullshit.
Believe it or not? Five Quarters Store egg rolls, if you fry them, are pretty damn good.