Damn you, Zabar’s! Damn you to HELL!
Published by Sid November 13th, 2005 in General. Tags: No Tags.So, sometime between Thursday night and Friday afternoon, I decided the world was missing something, and that something was meat pie.
Naturally, I took it upon myself to rectify the situation by making meat pie.
This isn’t about that, though.
This is about the journey. The journey to Zabar’s, where I went to get a pie tin.
First of all, I don’t know what the hell I was thinking getting a pie tin at Zabar’s, when I could have gotten one at any other crap grocer in town for, oh, $2. But no. I decided this would be a good occasion to tour Zabar’s upstairs.
Oh, did I neglect to mention that I have been assiduously avoiding the upstairs for the year and a half I’ve lived two blocks from it? Yes? Well, you can’t let a kitchen gadget whore like me loose in a place like that. And do you know why?
Because I have neither sense nor restraint, that’s why.
I went in for a single pie tin.
I came out with:
A new rolling pin
A grater
A pie tin
A potato masher
Three mugs (I already have four. I am one woman. Why in hell do I need seven mugs? I know not.)
A vegetable peeler (they have, like, 20 different peelers there. Craziness.)
A silicon oven mitt thingum (mad handy.)
And some other stuff I don’t recall at the moment. Damnit.
I spent $50 when I could have spent $2 anyplace else. *eyeroll* Although, I must say, I really should have gotten a vegetable peeler ages ago. My god, the ease! The slippy-quick skinning of vegetables! Wow!
Anyway. Shas, you got a Hello Kitty travel mug, yet? ‘Cause if not, you do now.
Um…okaythat’sall.
THIS is exactly why I avoid The Container Store; Bed, Bath & Beyond, Sonoma-Williams, the kitchen section of Target, Crate-Barrel 2 and Crate-Barrel, and IKEA….danger, will robinson, danger…..
Earlier this evening, I go to the store to buy grapefruit juice. I return home, $23 poorer, with: the juice, 3 pieces of fruit, toothpaste, green tea, milk and a tub of New York Super Fudge Double Chocolate Chunk icecream.
Capitalism, man. There’s ALWAYS something to buy!
there is nothing cuter than kitchen stuff. but i always end up buying the cute kitchen stuff but don’t make cute meals with the cute kitchen stuff.
Thats exactly why I try to stay out of William Sonoma. I know it will be a $50 plus session whenever I walk through those doors. Damn them!
I thought Zabars was going out of business….glad to see it’s still overcharging with the best of them…they had a wall clock I loved.
giirrl, i had teh same experience when i went to target a few days ago. went in for a rolling pin. came out with a computer game, a rolling pin, some whisks, a square baking pan, some bag clips and a felxible chopping board.
i feel your pain!
and i didn’t know you were sick girlie! how are ya????