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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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  1. DonHopkins · · focus · HN ↗
    Woke Grocery Store (Whole Foods in Berkeley)

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    Now this, this is the bargain, this is the bargain section.

    Now shit gets a little hectic here, &#x27;cause you get people, you get a bunch of hippies clubbing each other with the cucumbers, throwing shit, fighting to get, you know, the cheapest avocados.

    But you get, like dollar thirty-nine for eight of these. They&#x27;re about to go bad but, they&#x27;re not bad yet. Still good, all kinds of good stuff.

    You got little papayas and shit. Maybe a little soft, but still edible.

    Okay but you get, again, sometimes you gotta wear a helmet when you come in there. Because it does, it gets hot.

    There&#x27;s people, just, it gets, I mean, you&#x27;ve seen, you know, on the outside they&#x27;re soft, and they seems like they got nice soft liberal values.

    But then they just start attacking each other, the claws come out, you know. I&#x27;ve seen a couple knifings in that room before, it&#x27;s absolutely...

    Oh look the berries! Physalis species. All right, who doesn&#x27;t like solanaceae right there.

    Golden gooseberries. I don&#x27;t know what the fuck a gooseberry is, but that&#x27;s a physalis. There you go, $3.25 for a basket.

    [Watch the looks he&#x27;s getting from people:]

    Ok, so overall this is a wonderful spot to get talked down to, condescendingly lectured by a college student with a septum ring who can explain to you how you should think and behave and uh, and uh, you know, police your language.

    Very uh, there&#x27;s a lotta, there&#x27;s a lotta lessons you can learn here, ok? You know. And if it wasn&#x27;t for this spot, I don&#x27;t know what I would do.

    Now they, the got some guavas, they got some, I don&#x27;t know where they hid the guavas at, but...

    Now this is my favorite section, aka the hippie snake oil section, ok. Absolutely wonderful spot. [...]

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