Isn't it spelled with a 'C'? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield! On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:37 AM, Richard Williams <punditster@...> wrote: There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and "Circle A-Z'. It's all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams <punditster@... mailto:punditster@...> wrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. "A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain", except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, <s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@...> wrote: You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL!
