"Whoa," he said. "You boil your own chickpeas?"
Me, cheerfully: "Yep!"
Him: "Wow, that's intense."
Me: "Uh..."
I mean, I'm not sure I'd call soaking and cooking legumes from dry "intense." Natural track luge is intense. Labor is intense. Cooking dry beans isn't even labor-intensive. Pot, water, chickpeas...done!
I kind of wanted to say, "Dude, you work at Whole Foods. Have you really never seen someone buy a giant bag of dried beans?"
But I think he might not have been the brightest bulb in the box. He also seemed to think the tattoo on my wrist was a butchered chicken. Meanwhile, my son is chattering (loudly) about vegan food.
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8 comments:
Dude worked at Whole Foods and found dry chickpeas as foreign?! Weird. I do quinoa the same way. Soak, cook, easy.
Sometimes I wonder what people would do without all the fancy packaging and technology that makes things "esaier" these days.
YUM we cook dried beans too and people are frequently thrown off my it. . .
also, I want to see your tattoo!
Funny! I do this too because it saves so much money over buying the canned ones. Also, the goo in canned stuff freaks me out.
And second on seeing your tattoo. I have tattoo curiosities, and like to see what everyone's got.
I suck at cooking and even I know how to prepare beans :P
Thirding the tattoo viewing!
Dried beans are totally the way to go! Saves you so much money in the long run and I second that the goo on canned beans in seriously freaky.
I'm really surprised at his "intense" reaction to your purchase. Maybe he was new or maybe you're right, he might just be not that perceptive. Ha!
Maybe his blood sugar was low (it was lunchtime)? Maybe it was an odd attempt to flirt with me? I'm still puzzling over this.
I actually need to hit up the grocery store today. Maybe I'll go to Whole Foods and see if he's checking. I wonder what he'll think of my buying four cans of tomatoes and two bunches of cilantro.
Was he cute???!
Sure, Candace, if you're into tall, blond and tan guys with fitness-magazine bodies.
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