Not bad, not bad. It seems like everytime I mentioned anything about "this (any) food store on the Danforth", the immediate reply is "the Big Carrot?"
Come again?
Oh, okay. The Big Carrot *is* like a more righteous version of Whole Foods. I was pretty freaked out by the fact that everything was organic, that the grapes were 5$ a pound and the bread I looked at was missing ingredients that I had believed to be necessary to make it bread (ie. flour and gluten...whatever that is). They should legally be forced to come up with another name.
Anyhow. It is a very nice and shiny and earthy (but in a shiny, man-made way) store that will presumably leaves its customers looking nice and shiny and feelin' earthy. In stores like this, I am always amazed at how calm and happy people look to be grocery shopping in places like this; the aura of pleasantness that permeates every employee, customer and earth/body-friendly item makes me wonder if organic food really is, in fact, magic food. Certainly a different experience than the one I regularly see/get at the Dufferin Mall No Frills.
p.s. I had been wondering if Happy Planet smoothies had gone extinct, but I saw them here for the first time in ages. In GIANT SIZE, no less.