Why does Fry's hate me?

Can't they just cut me some slack? I tell you, they are on my list and I may not be shopping with them anymore if they keep this up.

I go shopping tonight. Of course, I have a list. I plan out my meals for a few days because if I don't, I'll be standing in my kitchen eating popcorn for dinner at 9:15. Not pretty. This should not take me long. Oh, wrong again. I have decided that Fry's, Kroger for those of you East of the Mississippi, does not like single people.

I want ground sirloin, pork chops and a steak or two. What is so hard about this? I don't know if they were planning for the Duggars to come by but everything was family size. I'm at a loss. Here I am standing in the meat section and I just want a damn filet. Can't a sister get one filet? No. She can't. She can get three of them. Three HUGE filets. I could take one of these bad boys and spread eating it over two days. I hate frozen meat so there is no chance I'm going to buy all three and freeze two. Nuh-uh. I end up buying a steak I don't really want but at least there just one.

It gets worse with the pork chops. I want a few thin sliced ones. A couple for dinner and the next day's lunch. Yeah, I plan for leftovers. So what? My choices for pork chops are three chops that are about and inch and a half thick or 9, yes 9, thinner sliced ones. What the hell? There are no chops in the butcher case just hanging out by themselves. As a matter of fact, the only thing they have in the butcher case is a vast array of meats stuffed with other crap. I don't want something stuffed. I just want a steak.

I need to have a conversation with these people. I felt like Diane Lane in Must Love Dogs. If you've not seen it, she yells at her butcher because she only wants one chicken breast and he always tries to sell her the whole chicken. She is reduced to screaming about being divorced and eating dinner over the sink. Now, I begin to wonder if her dinner wasn't microwaved popcorn. 

Comments

[CaroG]

I hear ya.

Signed,
Single Sister

[welby the magnificent]

I often find the reverse problem (seeing as how I've got a family of five) at Sprouts and Trader Joes. "Who the frick wants to buy a single half of a split chicken breast? This is *America* for bob's sake!" So maybe I should shop more at Fry's and you should hit up my favorite haunts...

[EmilyB]

Eh. Eat the popcorn. Those assholes!

[Pollywog]

I'm just pleased to find someone who has seen Must Love Dogs. Holy McScmoley, I love John Cusack. I mean love like need a few "alone" moments love John Cusack.
Anywho, my solution? Don't cook at all. Find yourself a nice boy who likes to cook and never visit the meat section again. Sexist? Perhaps, but I sit on the couch reading my friend's blogs and then, magically, food comes to me. And if that's wrong, then, by God, sexist I am!!!!