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Sorry folks, but I'd rather eat dog food. Whenever I tell people I'm in Ithaca, they all say "ooh, they have a Wegman's. You're so lucky!" Well, I've been on this earth for forty-five years and only one in Ithaca and I've gotta tell you all a little secret. The country's greenest, hipsterish, coffee house loving, artsy fartsy, organic city has one small problem...there is nowhere to get decent food. The restaurants I've been to all suck, except of course, for the one Thai place that once won best Thai food in the state. The baked goods are about the worst you'll ever taste and the pizza is revolting. Thank heavens for Wegman's, you'd think.
Here's the thing with Wegman's. Maybe they get good cuts of meat, fish and chicken in. The problem is by the time you get it to your table, that "use by May 13th" label has been changed numerous times. You open up that beautifully, CO2 sprayed salmon, with it's beautiful orange hue and immediately you're hit with an odor like no other. How does a $16/lb porterhouse go bad within six hours in your fridge? Why is it that the second you open that plastic and look at the side that's against the styrofoam, you see nothing but grey? Every single time.
Don't even get me started with the produce, for which they are world famous. Bright tomatoes, you'd sweat were heaven sent. Apples, so golden and delicious, they'd tempt Eve a second time. Lettuce, so green and crisp, it snaps when you bite it. Close your eyes though and you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. To make matters worse, these so called delectable picks from some garden are painfully expensive.
So, as my year in Ithaca commences, I sit atop a throne, unable to leave for the third time. This time it was the salmon. I should have known by the smell, but I the date on the label said it was OK. I was fooled again, by my trust. I know people will say, "write them," "complain" and "don't tell us, tell them," but what will they do? Give me a gift card for....Wegman's?
So as of 6/23/15. I will no longer eat any proteins from Wegman's. Give me Maine Source, Tops or any other "low class/affordable" supermarket, because I'm done! Wegman's looks clean on the outside, but looks can be deceiving. Their food is nothing less than disgusting and even worse, it's technically poisonous. Well maybe that's a stretch, but I know this. The pain and suffering I went through....AGAIN...won't happen again. I'll sustain myself on rice if I have to, but no more Wegman's for me. Another F You Ithaca day! This place just can't get any worse.
Next...the weather. Only place on earth not in the Amazon where the humidity never goes below 98%!
Sorry folks, but I'd rather eat dog food. Whenever I tell people I'm in Ithaca, they all say "ooh, they have a Wegman's. You're so lucky!" Well, I've been on this earth for forty-five years and only one in Ithaca and I've gotta tell you all a little secret. The country's greenest, hipsterish, coffee house loving, artsy fartsy, organic city has one small problem...there is nowhere to get decent food. The restaurants I've been to all suck, except of course, for the one Thai place that once won best Thai food in the state. The baked goods are about the worst you'll ever taste and the pizza is revolting. Thank heavens for Wegman's, you'd think.
Here's the thing with Wegman's. Maybe they get good cuts of meat, fish and chicken in. The problem is by the time you get it to your table, that "use by May 13th" label has been changed numerous times. You open up that beautifully, CO2 sprayed salmon, with it's beautiful orange hue and immediately you're hit with an odor like no other. How does a $16/lb porterhouse go bad within six hours in your fridge? Why is it that the second you open that plastic and look at the side that's against the styrofoam, you see nothing but grey? Every single time.
Don't even get me started with the produce, for which they are world famous. Bright tomatoes, you'd sweat were heaven sent. Apples, so golden and delicious, they'd tempt Eve a second time. Lettuce, so green and crisp, it snaps when you bite it. Close your eyes though and you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. To make matters worse, these so called delectable picks from some garden are painfully expensive.
So, as my year in Ithaca commences, I sit atop a throne, unable to leave for the third time. This time it was the salmon. I should have known by the smell, but I the date on the label said it was OK. I was fooled again, by my trust. I know people will say, "write them," "complain" and "don't tell us, tell them," but what will they do? Give me a gift card for....Wegman's?
So as of 6/23/15. I will no longer eat any proteins from Wegman's. Give me Maine Source, Tops or any other "low class/affordable" supermarket, because I'm done! Wegman's looks clean on the outside, but looks can be deceiving. Their food is nothing less than disgusting and even worse, it's technically poisonous. Well maybe that's a stretch, but I know this. The pain and suffering I went through....AGAIN...won't happen again. I'll sustain myself on rice if I have to, but no more Wegman's for me. Another F You Ithaca day! This place just can't get any worse.
Next...the weather. Only place on earth not in the Amazon where the humidity never goes below 98%!
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