layton Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 I'm assuming a lot of folks on this site do, or have at one time in their dirtbag days, shopped at a grocery outlet (dent mart, food graveyard). Any good stories? It's been years since I've shopped at the BGO or Deals Only. Here are my highlights, leaving out of course the two year old expired cliff bars (bricks) and tastless shit ............................................ I bought a box of cereal full of dead spiders I boiled some water and poured a box of macaroni in. The pasta dissolved in the water making a mucous soup I bought a frozen bag of hamburgers. They shrank 75% on the grill and were all weird looking, tasting, and disgusting. I checked the ingredients: 100% beef hearts I got an instant dinner (freeze dried something with rice) for a trip. 3 days out I opened it for dinner. It was full of cobwebs and dead maggots. I ate it. Let's hear em! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genepires Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 After the first or second incident, why in the hell did you keep going there? Dead spiders and maggots is a sign to stay away. I think a little bit of dinner just came up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 in the 1000 degree temps of the san juaqion valley in summer i threw up in the parking lot of a mexican grocery store after wandering around the aisles in hangover hell vainly searching for somethign i could make work for a multi-day trip in kings canyon - i seem to recall the vast buzzing in my skull came to a head and resulted in the Big Sprint while i was in the meat section, watching flies crawling all over the tripe and brains sitting out at room temp in buckets on the positive side, a few minutes afterwards a shiny quarter got me a plastic "homey" (collect the whole neighborhood!) in the form of hispanic pimp or priest, which of the two i never could figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Nothing but good deals for me at Grocery Outlet. Got a twelvepack of pumpkin ale for $2.99 at the one in Jtree one Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Conway Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 some fantastic aged wine deals there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smash and grab Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 they do not sell namaste bumper stickets behind the counter... not really my style. whole foods is where im at these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 i just got some airwalk skate shoes for $7.50. I had to look through the boxes to find a pair that didn't have mayonnaise spilled on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layton Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 mayo is nature's nickwax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevetimetravlr Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 We bought some cold cereal, and it had some kind of moth infestation that came to our pantry, and we had moths flying around our house for weeks. They infiltrated all the other powdered food we had, so everything had to go. they drill right thru the box and plastic into the inards and lay their eggs. it was downright gnarly and disgusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I got an instant dinner (freeze dried something with rice) for a trip. 3 days out I opened it for dinner. It was full of cobwebs and dead maggots. I ate it. How did it taste? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Sounds like Flour Moths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_moth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 some fantastic aged wine deals there Yes. Some bad ones - but if you find a good bottle you can go score lots of it for a mighty good price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 A friend of mine bought a bag of chocolates from a grocery outlet. Expiration date thing. We ate them....well just one. They tasted like gasoline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 some fantastic aged wine deals there Yes. Some bad ones - but if you find a good bottle you can go score lots of it for a mighty good price. I picked up a 2000 Bordeaux Wine there like 3 years back. It was in the 2 buck upchuck price range. Tasted fantastic. Went back and bought everything they had, 5 to 8 cases of the stuff. If anyone ever invites me over to your home to nosh, I'll haul one over, finally down to about my last case and now I'm starting to be careful on opening the bottles:-) Another time, they had Haagan DAz something of cheese ice cream. I was calling it Fumunda cheeze. They had cases of it for $1. each. I filled up the freezer at home and at work. Took a long time to work through it, stuff was amazingly great tasting. Another fantastic deal is sunscreen. Like a buck. The trick is to buy a single thing and test it or to go with a sharp eyed Asian lady who is smarter than you and will tell you to put back the Chocolate cause it will taste like gasoline, or the expired drugs I always seem to toss in the cart:-) PS, she told me to always pass on the perishables that are canned or bottled, like olive oil, etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crux Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Dirt-bagging through a recent couple years of college, life on a bicycle had me buying bread and beans at the Grocery Outlet most days. Premium whole wheat, 99 cents per loaf. Black beans, 59 cents per can. Added to that, purchased wherever, fresh produce and non-fat milk, and a few dollars a day kept the bicycle engine fueled to be faster than most. It was a good time, outdoors a lot, and I graduated for an RN license without any debts. Grocery Outlet/Aurora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Conway Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 They've 20% off all wine through Sunday. The 2006 Sterling Vineyards Napa Valley Syrah is a great deal at $4.80/bottle. Note: This wine was $53/bottle, $420/case from the Vineyard. Not sure how much further it will age, but a darn good Syrah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Sounds like it's sold out in Seattle/Portland stores... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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