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But is it really any different than prepacked sliced apples, romaine lettuce leaves, individual celery stalks or many other "self serve" prepared items available at most to all grocery stores? I am not promoting the peeled orabges, just saying that we have bexome a lazy/convenient /demanding society. Hell, how is it really differnt than buying toilet paper from Amazon?
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Quote from: bsbullie on March 06, 2016, 07:38:49 PMBut is it really any different than prepacked sliced apples, romaine lettuce leaves, individual celery stalks or many other "self serve" prepared items available at most to all grocery stores? I am not promoting the peeled orabges, just saying that we have bexome a lazy/convenient /demanding society. Hell, how is it really differnt than buying toilet paper from Amazon?Don't forget about all the pre sliced melons and watermelons. No outcry there? Funny how people pounce on some lazyness but not others?
Quote from: fruitlovers on March 07, 2016, 09:43:08 PMQuote from: bsbullie on March 06, 2016, 07:38:49 PMBut is it really any different than prepacked sliced apples, romaine lettuce leaves, individual celery stalks or many other "self serve" prepared items available at most to all grocery stores? I am not promoting the peeled orabges, just saying that we have bexome a lazy/convenient /demanding society. Hell, how is it really differnt than buying toilet paper from Amazon?Don't forget about all the pre sliced melons and watermelons. No outcry there? Funny how people pounce on some lazyness but not others?I did say, "and many other self serve items available " in my post...
Ok, so what is the real problem here, the packaging or the overcharging and lazy consumer?If the packaging, what about the following: potatoes wrapped in sealed plastic, European cucumbers wrapped in sealed plastic, broccoli wrapped in sealed plastic, cauliflower in a plastic enclosure, certain hot house full size tomatoes in clam shells, heads of lettuce in plastic enclosures, and the list goes on...