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(Cryptic title, no?)

So for the last year, I've been drinking free milk. Or very near to it anyway. Let me explain...

The local mega-grocery carries local, organic, hoity-toity milk in glass deposit bottles for $2.99 / half gallon. Six bucks a gallon for milk is expensive, no doubt, but this is really good milk. Until this week, it was $2.49, and for the first six months I lived here, it was $2.29. They'd run "Manager's Specials" occasionally too, so sometimes it'd drop under two bucks a half gallon.

"Two bucks a half gallon?!" you're saying to yourself right now, but it really wasn't all that bad, because there's a $2 deposit on the bottle that through apathy/laziness/ignorance the cashiers never charged. Ever. Never ever. Buy milk for $2.49. Consume milk. Return bottle, pocket $2 cash. Milk cost less than a buck a gallon, even when I paid full price. Over the last year, I've probably paid less than $.50 per gallon on average.

Until today.

Sometime in the last week, they raised the price. Worse, they set the registers to automatically add the deposit.

Now the shit really does cost six bucks a gallon, which means it's the end of it for me.

Le sad.

Those of us who are intolerant of the lactose have no pity for you.

Next you'll be telling us that there are 267 more flavors of ice cream than the vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry they had when I was a kid and could eat it.

One of the things I don't mind spending money on is good food.

I buy local organic milk as well. I don't even know how much it is, but it's hard to leave that store (Whole Foods) for under $100.

Whole foods? You don't have any good local co-ops down there?
I refuse to shop there when presented the chance while in Seattle. There are just too many better options for good/organic/local/whathaveyou food than that corporate money trap in the area.

I don't drink much milk or do a lot of dairy but I do love dairy in europe, or even the eastern US, especially in GB and Ireland where you can usually get delicious milk from a stone throw down the road. For some reason dairy quality on the westcoast of the US seems poor compared to many other places.

UndertheGun wrote:Whole foods? You don't have any good local co-ops down there?

Not on my side of town. There are a couple, but they're not that great. The only good one is on the other side of town.

Whole Foods is good if you know what you're looking for....... and have the $ to shop there.

I'm lucky; I fucking hate milk. I drink about three litres a year.