May. 23, 2007 - My Crunchy Meter is Foggy
I'm having a hard time today deciding if some of my choices have been crunchy or not. It's not always cut and dried (like my lawn).
I had a peanut butter and banana sandwich on whole wheat bread today. That sounds like a crunchy sort of thing... except that it was smooth peanut butter... and it was not natural peanut butter - it was that pesticide laced, oil and sugar laden stuff... and bananas don't grow in Canada.
I am wearing a T-shirt I bought at a thrift store in TN. The shirt is for a dairy company that is somewhat local to the place where I bought it. That sounds crunchy except that someone else blogged about how evil and un-crunchy this company is.
I did not go to Starbucks today. I did make my own coffee at the office using an unbleached coffee filter, but I used Italian espresso coffee. I did buy the coffee at Petrolia Mercantile & Tea, though.
While I am unsure of some of these choices, there are two things I am certain of:
1) I ate an apple today.
2) It was crunchy.
Comments
May. 24, 2007 - Hilarious!
Posted by TheMonkeyParade
Most of the Crunchy Cons I know aren't totally crunchy... if they were they would be Granola. KWIM? Being a CC is much more fun. Granolas are, well, granola. Lots of fun to be sure, but they hardly ever surprise you. But a crunchy con? You never know what you are going to get.
I think being a CC is living your life as an example of incongruity and reflexive unpredictability- and that is NOT a bad thing.
By the way, do peanuts grow in Canada?
May. 24, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by SmallWorld
The REAL question is: what kind of apple was it?
May. 24, 2007 - Answers to the questions above...
Posted by anotherblogonthefire
1. Yes, peanuts are grown right here in Ontario. We have some all natural, Ontario-grown peanut butter at home from Picard Peanuts. We can go there and actually grind it ourselves and make the peanut butter. This is the best peanut butter - hands down! Unfortunately, I made my sandwich at the office from cheapo, no name peanut butter, which more than likely came from peanuts imported from China (I learned this on Wikepedia... had to do some research).
2. I think the apple was the variety 'apple-us cumminsus'. Actually, I don't know what kind it was... I found it in a fruit bowl at home, but I don't think it originated there.
May. 24, 2007 - Well...
Posted by QueenoftheHill
...I'm more than a little concerned about where Petrolia Mercantile and Tea grows its coffee beans! Not, I'll wager, in Canada. Well, they don't grow these in Tennessee, either. And I can't live without it. So I guess we'll just have to muddle along as half-crunchy.
But here's an ethical dilemma for you (okay, for me): I buy my organic coffee, grown in Brazil, from Sam's -- another division of Walmart, which stores I've been boycotting for some 2-plus years. So is it better NOT to buy organic coffee, which I'd be loathe to afford outside the low-priced big box, than to buy it at Sam's?
Sometimes I find myself stumbling all over my own lovely plans to save the world because they conflict with one another.
Edited by QueenoftheHill on May. 24, 2007 at 11:43 AM
May. 24, 2007 - I just finished hanging out some laundry
Posted by onfire
and I can guarantee that the towels will be nice and crunchy
(because I know how much you love that feeling)
