It’s a thing because sometimes you get a bunch of sour grapes, so people taste one just to check. Since it’s easy to do and hardly affects the product, I guess it seems safe, as opposed to taking a bite out of an apple.
Wait, we aren’t supposed to be taking bites out of the apples? What if it’s sour?
Yes, it is considered okay- within limits-
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/style/proper-etiquette-sampling-grapes-supermarket-160049081.html
It may sound unhygienic, but there’s nothing wrong with trying before you buy. As long as you follow the proper etiquette, it is totally acceptable to make sure your potential bag of grapes is suitably ripe. In fact, some grocery store employees encourage people to test out the grapes prior to buying.
Ask them if you can sample a grape to see if it’s ripe enough, and they’ll probably oblige. As grocery store workers, they may even be able to provide a glove to make your sampling experience more sanitary. If you’re unable to track down an employee near the produce aisle, limit yourself to one or two grapes — and definitely don’t place a half-eaten grape back in the bag. It’s also worth noting that this taste-test etiquette does not extend to larger fruits that aren’t bite-sized or packaged foods that aren’t priced by weight.
So IF there is an eployee working in the produce dept, do ask first.
I chose sometimes, but since my wife (she works there) does most of the shopping, I only rarely do it.
I have also seen pieces of fruit laid out with toothpicks in them, to sample.
Of course you are being sarcastic, but you could ask a produce staffers.
I’ve served on several juries and despite prejudices some people have about “dumb jurors,” I’ve found most people serving jury duty are anxious to do a proper job. At least, I’ve never run into anyone too dumb to come to a reasonable decision.
Same here.
And if you can prove your innocence like that - the DA will understand it, and drop the charges. Unless it is very political.
Also, grapes can be mushy. At $6-$8 a container, I want to know if they’re any good. Otherwise I’d end up throwing them away.
If I’m innocent, I’m innocent.
I don’t care how generous the plea deal is or if the circumstances are so complex that they require a 6-hour lecture in front of a blackboard to explain, I’m going to trial.
I absolutely never taste-test the grapes – because, I never buy them. I am not averse to them as such (unlike with the green bell peppers, gag me), I just do not much care for them.
Easy answer, I don’t like grapes.
I have. Fortunately, there were eleven more of us to keep that person from wrecking things.
Is June 19th a paid holiday where you work?
That one puzzled me at first, so I searched and found it is Juneteenth. Not a paid holiday for my employees.
It’s been a federal holiday since 2021. Even if none of your local news mentions it: you didn’t notice there hasn’t been any mail?
You’re welcome. I don’t stack because it feels counter productive. But i don’t happily chill while i wait. I seethe with frustration at the delay. Still, stacking the stuff seems counter-productive, so i don’t do it. Except maybe the 5 identical cans of catfood that i would have stacked anyway.
Didn’t we use to have a forehead-slap smiley?
I’ll bear that in mind in the future.
Does that apply to multiple cans of the same thing stacked on top of each other?
I check my Informed Delivery each morning to see what mail is coming. If it says zero, it says zero regardless of the reason (holiday vs just no mail).
I’ve heard about Juneteenth as a general news thing, never ran into it in the wild, though.
I just asked my gf and if she weren’t working from home she’d have the day off, as her agency would be closed. But working from home has its pluses and minuses, I guess.
Naw, I wouldn’t damn your soul to hell for a modest stack of identical items that behave when stacked, such as the cat food example.
But your soul is doomed if I catch you building a tower out of a loaf of Wonder Bread atop a package of Polish sausage atop a pack of Charmin that is teetering atop an array of five cans of fruit cocktail in heavy syrup.
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Would not happen.
Partly because of the teetering issue; but even more because I load cold items together, non-food items together, and light squashy items after heavy items within the categories, in the hope that they’ll be bagged that way and to make it easier to bag them that way. (And I don’t buy Wonder Bread; but I do sometimes buy semisquashy baked goods or other squashy items.) So to me those four things would be in four different categories and would never be piled on top of each other.
I will admit to occasionally putting boxes of facial tissue, or even a pack or two of storage bags or something else that seems to me compatible, on top of a package of toilet paper. But not so that they’ll teeter.
That’s why I created the poll. It kind of came out of nowhere on my radar, but we decided last year to make it a paid holiday. Our employees were quite appreciative of the day off and the message behind it.
Now I wonder if Juneteenth is the reason my Social Security check wasn’t direct deposited yesterday. It is supposed to go in the 3rd Wednesday of the month. That was yesterday, but no joy.
I only recently began getting checks, this would have been my second. I’ve been (jokingly) treating it as a scam that I don’t believe, and right off the bat, they’ve missed a check!