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| - This is a review on the prepared foods section.
I'm not a big fan. My biggest problem is that when I go there to have a meal at their store, because I want to eat healthy and knowing what the ingredients are important to me to ensure that I am indeed eating a healthy meal and because I do indeed have food allergies - there are no gosh darn trays! Can someone explain to me how I am supposed to carry a plate of food, maybe a small bowl of mixed greens with some toppings, my eating utensils, a drink, a napkin and maybe a desert? Am I supposed to balance this all on my head, or check things out one at a time? Very awkward - and the cherry on top of it all, is the guilt trip they lay on you as you are eating in their fine seating area, where they have all these different receptacle cans for different kinds of waste materials. Eating on the plate they provide is being the "greenest" of them all - and yet it's not encouraged when trays are not provided to help you carry such "green" plates over to your table. And oh yeah, the long hair that was in my food yesterday was quite gross - but I was so hungry and I am without a kitchen at the present moment, that food is food right now to me.
What is very confusing, too, is when you check out in line with all your plates, your drink, and pre-boxed desert items (which you really didn't want boxed because you are going to eat it in T-minus 15 minutes but were not given a choice in the matter) carefully arranged in a shopping basket - and then they start bagging things. Hello, cashier and bagger - did you not just see all the plates I am attempting to carry here? Can you not see that I am trying to avoid all the unnecessary packaging, so that I can have less of a guilt trip while I am eating and also feel good that I am doing something good for the environment? Apparently, not. Maybe they need to move the Guilt Trip sign to hang in front of the cashiers, so they can be reminded. Or is this Conscious Capitalism in the works? Hmmm - a thought to ponder. What is "Quench with Respect" supposed to mean, anyways?
In addition, they seem to think it is OK to use elastic bands on their food items, such as their rotisserie chicken. That's another big problem when one of the things I am allergic to is rubber. So if you have a rubber allergy - do not eat their rotisserie chicken. And if you like the taste of rubber chickens, by all means, dig in!
If you are eating out at Whole Foods, picking a desert - although, they are all really lovely - can be slim pickings. The pre-sliced cakes are refrigerated. Maybe this is great for long-time storage, but for the potential desert eater who wants to eat the cake right away, it's not so great and the full flavor of the cake cannot be enjoyed because the frosting is hard as a rock. Also, refrigerated creme brulee? Not such a great idea, either. They don't seem to really know the ingredients, too, of the items in the desert cases. (This is only a concern if you have food allergies I suppose - but it is a food store and they make the things on site (or do they?) - so shouldn't they know? If anybody has been to Gayle's in Capitola, CA - they have a binder with the ingredients for all their food products. Is it that hard to do?)
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