Depends on what you are reading. When I read Sunset Magazine, it's clear the most irritating people in the world live in San Francisco.

"And members debate natural childbirth while bagging nuts."

The 14 year old boy in me finds that sentence hilarious.

It seems to me that this place serves to keep the members out of other, "regular" organic grocery stores. I'd be thankful, no matter how much I like wild boar and kale, to not have to rub shoulders with many of them.

Our local organic grocery is reasonably well stocked and a pleasure to do business with, but I'm amazed at the behavior of some of the patrons and I avoid going there during peak hours. I've heard otherwise reasonable people holler "HOW CAN YOU BE OUT OF (fill in the blank)? at the top of their lungs a couple times. Maybe it's a organic food store thing.
Nah, probably just a rude people thing.

Yup, it's everywhere. Even in humble Casper.

Well, if you're looking at people insisting on organic, who do not notice it must be trucked to them, and who live in a house saturated with volatile synthetics, featuring furniture robbed from a rain forest, using imported water from another state, you're not dealing with rationally consistent people anyway.
They drive a hybrid thinking their ecological impact is less, too. Nope.

That's hillarious. Neurotic freaks.
Is it really worth the discount if you have to work there, and it takes twice as long to do your shopping? I mean, what's your time and sanity worth?

I'm a member of the local food co-op. The quality of the produce is excellent.

Then, there was another point too... what was it?

...oh yes, the braless women.

oh yes, the braless women

Depends...do they bathe on a regular occasion, and do they have pit hair?

You need a certain percentage of these folk to make Sunday morning people watching at the local cafe fun.

I felt so old school this morning. I made a smoothie without kale in it.

It's fun to poke a stick at Park Slope. Some of it is deserved. I didn't do the co-op because there was no way we could consume enough produce to make it worthwhile, but I know some pretty great people there.

Court of Versailles. I wonder if it will end the same way.

Mamalady was a member of the Amigos co-op in Taos in the 80's, though we never had time to do much volunteering since we had our own store... I recall there were people around that were all sanctimonious about their 'all natural' way of life then... but we never paid them much mind, cuz hey, whatever floats your boat, man.

These days though? watching the range rovers in the whole paycheck parkinglot...
the conversation goes something like:
"y'know that sunbutter [excellent sunflower butter, like peanut butter but better] is a whole buck cheaper at king soopers..."
'well, I NEVER shop at king soopers!'
"ah..."

lotsa money, no brains.

EVEN FUNNIER! is the dirty looks this one woman was getting because she had a fur trimmed coat.
I thought the Lola Granola's were going to get violent, though fur lady was completely oblivious.

So, not surprised that a density of peopel in a place like that in NYC would be a bit...
stressed out.
Just another way of keepin' up with the Jones-Highbrows of the world.

...just chill out, man.

Meanwhile at the ballpark: entertain me at all times, damn your elitist hide!

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Yes. I do mean 'even while I'm peeing'.

I dunno Gog. I've had to clean restrooms available to the public before and anything that helps guys concentrate their aim better is an objective good.

Now if they could just find a way to gamify flushing and throwing away trash in the ladies room . . . .

Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop is fodder for a single story now appearing here, yet going back more than two decades: look at those crazy foodies! Google for its many online predecessors and variants.

The one thing I noticed was the "we ran out of kale and they almost rioted".

I go to normal, large chain, grocery stores and have never noticed them being out of much. About the only thing is the deli counter running low on the fried chicken if you want to buy a "box" or two for an impromptu work carry-in. And that is usually solved by giving them a 45 minute notice. Maybe donuts in the evening, too.

So if the organic supply is so low, what the hell are they going to do in the collapse?