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  • Re: The collective Minnesota / Wisconsin / North Dakota drunk thread

    Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
    There's always a ShopKo. It's the generic Walmart. Yes, folks, you read that right.
    The ShopKo is right next to the rink. Unfortunately, I've never traveled very far from those 2 things, so I can't tell you where the inevitable Hardees is.

    p.s. I've always considered ShopKo slightly higher class than Walmart, but I grew up with ShopKo, and not Walmart.

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      Originally posted by jen View Post
      The ShopKo is right next to the rink. Unfortunately, I've never traveled very far from those 2 things, so I can't tell you where the inevitable Hardees is.

      p.s. I've always considered ShopKo slightly higher class than Walmart, but I grew up with ShopKo, and not Walmart.
      I had that (Rochester, MN). ShopKo customers are special. A very different kind of special. They may have taught Walmart their ways.
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        Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
        I had that (Rochester, MN). ShopKo customers are special. A very different kind of special. They may have taught Walmart their ways.
        So in the ShopKo-WalMart-KMart spectrum, where does Dollar General fit in?

        DollarG's are becoming prolific in the small, outpost towns in ND and SD.
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          We had a Dollar G in the sh-tkicker town next to us in rural MD. The place always smelled like slightly off chicken, right from the moment it opened. Life sucks for the Poors.

          We've got an Aldi near the office park where my work is which is kind of the illegal immigrant equivalent. You buy in bulk, bag your own groceries, have zero staff support, and the inventory is whatever they happened to get that week. On the other side, everything is dirt cheap and everything is healthy staples -- there's no soda or sugar sh-t, it's all bulk produce, or toilet paper, or diapers. It actually seems like the perfect place to shop if you're in serious financial hardship.
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            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            We've got an Aldi near the office park where my work is which is kind of the illegal immigrant equivalent.
            A couple of those have popped up in the Fargo/Moorhead area recently.
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              Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
              A couple of those have popped up in the Fargo/Moorhead area recently.
              It's probably the fastest growing business in Dump's Amerika.
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                Aldi's are Costcos, without the membership fee.
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                • Re: The collective Minnesota / Wisconsin / North Dakota drunk thread

                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  We had a Dollar G in the sh-tkicker town next to us in rural MD. The place always smelled like slightly off chicken, right from the moment it opened. Life sucks for the Poors.

                  We've got an Aldi near the office park where my work is which is kind of the illegal immigrant equivalent. You buy in bulk, bag your own groceries, have zero staff support, and the inventory is whatever they happened to get that week. On the other side, everything is dirt cheap and everything is healthy staples -- there's no soda or sugar sh-t, it's all bulk produce, or toilet paper, or diapers. It actually seems like the perfect place to shop if you're in serious financial hardship.
                  The problem with Aldi is that their produce and meats aren't really good quality. I'm not saying that their product is unfit for human consumption, but it's just not as good as what you'll find at a normal grocer, or even Target or Walmart. I bought asparagus from Aldi, and stalks were about half the diameter as those I find at Target, and they were off a little in texture. The chicken and steak I bought there on different occasions. have not been very tasty either, with the chicken not being butchered quite right and the steak having a really off-taste quality to it. Other things I've had from them have been just fine. Even those things I've not liked, I'm willing to bet a better cook than me could make all their products taste just fine.
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                  • Re: The collective Minnesota / Wisconsin / North Dakota drunk thread

                    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                    ... and the steak having a really off-taste quality to it.
                    When I find things like that I wonder if it's a non-regional-taste supplier at play (the old grass-fed/corn-fed beef conversation).
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                      Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                      The problem with Aldi is that their produce and meats aren't really good quality. I'm not saying that their product is unfit for human consumption, but it's just not as good as what you'll find at a normal grocer, or even Target or Walmart. I bought asparagus from Aldi, and stalks were about half the diameter as those I find at Target, and they were off a little in texture. The chicken and steak I bought there on different occasions. have not been very tasty either, with the chicken not being butchered quite right and the steak having a really off-taste quality to it. Other things I've had from them have been just fine. Even those things I've not liked, I'm willing to bet a better cook than me could make all their products taste just fine.
                      "Than I."

                      I assume their stock is the stuff that didn't get accepted by the other stores' quality control. For some things that doesn't matter -- your apple doesn't actually have to look like it fell gleaming out of ScarJo's quim to be edible. But stuff like meats I wouldn't chance.
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                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        "Than I."
                        So you're like MafiaMan on that other board I haunt. Stuff like that to him is, ... well ...

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                          Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
                          So you're like MafiaMan on that other board I haunt. Stuff like that to him is, ... well ...

                          Yeah, it hurts and I have to say something. I don't mind if people ignore it, I just gotsta preach.
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                          • Re: The collective Minnesota / Wisconsin / North Dakota drunk thread

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            Yeah, it hurts and I have to say something. I don't mind if people ignore it, I just gotsta preach.
                            The ones that put sand in my tranny:

                            - their/there/they're
                            - assure/ensure/insure
                            - its/it's
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                            • Re: The collective Minnesota / Wisconsin / North Dakota drunk thread

                              Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
                              The ones that put sand in my tranny:

                              - their/there/they're
                              - assure/ensure/insure
                              - its/it's
                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
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                              • Re: The collective Minnesota / Wisconsin / North Dakota drunk thread

                                That made my day.
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