Lexington, Two Days in a Row?

Yeah, this time it was MY appointment in Lexington, and neatly enough, while driving, Barry received a call from UK Chandler Hospital about scheduling a test.  So after my appointment, we walked over to Chandler to set up his appointment.  Convenient, and no wasted phone-tag that way.

My horror-scope yesterday said to be adventurous today.  So instead of coming straight home, we drove over to Tate's Creek Road to Fresh Market, just to look around.  I had been there before, and it was the ONLY place in Kentucky that I know of where I can buy MOXIE!  So we wandered around, and picked up a few things.

One thing we noticed was that the prices are SOOOO high both here and at Whole Foods (where we stopped yesterday), that people will pay an arm and a leg if anything is labeled "organic."  I mean, $5.99 for a pint of "organic" strawberries?  I don't believe in surviving on junk food, but it seems to me that advertising "organic" or "gluten free" can double or triple the prices.

And the whole "gluten free" thing is such a farce.  Potato chips are gluten free because they aren't made of wheat.  String beans are gluten free because they aren't made of wheat.  It's like an ad I remember from Ithaca, NY, talking about "free range cheese" -- which supposedly cost twice as much as the standard cheese.  Now if it were "organic" or "gluten free" AND "free range" they could charge 2x, 3x, or 5x more for it.  And what do the purchasers get?  Cheese (or strawberries, or whatever) that are probably no better than the produce and products we "peons" buy because we can't afford $6 a pint for strawberries.

On the way home, we stopped at Marksbury Farms -- just over the line from Boyle County into Garrard County.  Again, only the 1% can afford their products -- please shoot me if I EVER pay $18.50 a pound for beef, or $6.50 a pound for ground beef.  I don't doubt that their products are good, but at their prices, my pension would need to be 3-4 times what it is now just to be able to afford enough food to survive.

So, yes, I eat at McDonald's because I won't pay $9.95 for a hamburger.  I eat non-organic because I enjoy eating.  I know that probably there is glyphosate in almost everything I eat, but if I stopped eating, would I be any better off?

OK, off to dinner soon.  And no, it's not totally unhealthy either, but neither is it organic or gluten-free.