I promised the better-half that this weekend we’d do no home improvement projects. Yesterday we read and then watched Napoleon Dynamite. Today we drove to Charlottesville to go shopping.
Our first stop was Crutchfield’s. We’ve always just used the catalog so it was like going to Mecca. I had to keep my hands in my pockets. We bought a in-wall speaker jack so that we can spread out our speakers and eventually hook up as yet unpurchased exterior speakers. I was a little happy when the cashier asked the better-half what his phone number was and the account came up under my name. I’m a girl who likes her sound, what can I say?
Then we headed over to Whole Foods. We were there for two reasons. To buy things for us and to get some GF items for the MIL. The better-half took the cart and started working on the list for the MIL. I cruised around and had a moment in the fresh vegetable and fruit area where I wanted to do a little dance and then run up to people and tell them how lucky they are to have this store nearby. I contained myself, barely. I did see two people frenching in the beer/wine area and I knew exactly how they felt. Only they felt it about each other and not about all the fabulous food.
I stood with some purpose over the cheese bin and picked out two cheeses. One was the Epoisses that we tried last summer and ultimately had to pitch because the cheese was so far gone that it was like a horse stall. I also got a wedge of Raw Milk Tomme de Savoie.
We finally met up at the meat case and grabbed meats like the world was going to end. We ended up with several types of sausages (wild boar, chicken, lamb), a large piece of lamb (that we’ll cut into smaller portions), some ostrich and duck breast. There’ll be good eating at Chez F&G this week.
On the way out of town we stopped at Harris Teeter and loaded up on Genesee Cream Ale. The beer guy saw we were cleaning them out of the elixir and went into the back to get us another six-pack. And, then he told us to call a week ahead of time and he’d be glad to have more on hand for us. He was surprised we drove from Richmond to shop there.
When we got home we quick-chilled a bottle of Beaujolais wine, opened a box of stone cracked wheat crackers and stone-cold munched on that round of Epoisses. It was extraordinary. The stinky cheese rules.
OMG. you’re really cracking me up now. I grew up in rochester. Genesee was mother’s milk. But everyone in Rochester drank genny light, or if you had a couple extra bucks, genny 12 horse. And genny bock in the spring. It was seasonal and was decorated in a bright green can with cute little goats on it. It was not available in bottles for some reason. No one drank Cream Ale in Rochester, just as friends I know from St Louis says everyone there drinks Busch and not Bud.
I still drink genny light by the 30 pack. Not hard to find in these parts. Now wegmans, the great Rochester grocery giant, which makes Giant Foods look like a 7-11, is moving into the area.
I can’t wait until there is one close enough to us.
Except, unfortunately we can’t buy beer in grocery stores in Maryland.
Yep, I can testify that all the Genny Cream Ale gets exported out of Rochester!
I read your post (Liz) about being from Rochester…I knew as soon as posted about our love for the Cream Ale that you’d get a kick out of it. We also have one of the pounders in the refrigerator that we picked up last time we were in PA.
Well, Liz and Frog, and Frog II, as a Rochesterian planning a visit to MD in about a month, place your oder now. And do you want a white hot to go with that genny cream? I always wondered how they got rid of the genny cream ales- they ship them south! Go figure! Please buy more – support the Genesee brewery!
Frog, Cindy was the one who tuned us into your blog. I’m not sure how she found you, but I’m glad she did!
I’m not even sure what a white hot…I’m scared to ask.
It’s a style of hot dog popular in Rochester. When you order a hot dog, you have to specify if you want a red hot or a white hot. I’m not sure exactly what they are made of, which sort of makes me scared too.
A white hot is a bockwurst style hot dog – And it is made from Pork, and other, ummm, things. You know, parts is parts?