Eat Some Poms, Hipster!
After being told by a coworker that pomegranate was a “hipster fruit” (not pomegranate juice, mind you, that’s for health foodies, nor pomegranate liquor, which is for yuppies, but actually eating the pomegranate seeds), I was just sent this:
Which has pretty much made my afternoon.
Surely pomegranates are too expensive to be truly hipster? Or maybe I don’t understand hipsters well enough — I guess they are the ones who buy pre-ripped jeans.
Aren’t pomegranates, like, $1.45? About the same price as an (organic) apple.
Wow, at the Giant near me, I saw them for $3+ (on sale they were 2 for $4).
Clearly there is fruit price gouging going on. The FTC must be notified at once.
Well, I’ve never bought any in DC. I bought one while home in Ohio last week, and that’s how much it was—but I was also at WalMart. Of course, half of them were literally rotting, too, which I found extremely odd, but apparently WalMart thinks its acceptable to leave rotting fruit sitting out.
They aren’t the only ones. The same Giant routinely has rotting apples *and* peaches out. The only store I’ve been to where the produce is consistently fresh is Wegmans. Happily, a new one is opening near me in 2009.
Are you talking about the Giant near Tenley/the Cathedral?
No, the one in Columbia MD, just off Rt. 108. I’ve definitely been to that one, though, in the years before abandoning the glamorous field of Washington DC public policy.
“Surely pomegranates are too expensive to be truly hipster?”
In a world of $4 coffee, $16 organic chicken breast and $200 ripped and stained jeans…clearly the hipster will spend money on what’s hot…er, wait…on what’s hot but has to be packaged like it’s not hot because buying anything “in” would mean a deduction in hipster points.