Friday, November 28, 2008

Organic Avocados

"I told my wife to stop this organic food malarkey,'' said Jeremy, a beleaguered hedge-fund manager, another man who fell for an extremely beautiful yet extravagant woman.

"She went ballistic. Organic Hass avocados cost £1.75 each and she wanted me to buy six of them! In the end, I just peeled off the labels that said they were certified organic and put them on ordinary avocados – she didn't notice the difference. I did the same with bananas…"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/3527803/Recession-When-the-money-goes-so-does-the-toxic-wife.html

2 comments:

Илья Казначеев said...

Только сейчас заметили, с кем рядом живут?
А сразу не надо было связываться.

DzembuGaijin said...

Well, Avocados are expensive here ( this is not Israel, yo!) :-)

As for COSTCO prices on Organic/Non-Organic fruits ... I do not see much difference. I would probably favor organic if they look nice and if this is COSTCO prices and not PCC's ones :-)

+1 on partner choice, but do not blame the dude, it is a very difficult thing to find even a good partner. :-) If organic food is the only problem ( that is easily solvable with re-labeling) , I would say guy just hit a jack pot of gold :-)