# Where do I find Grocery Bag for Man? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 20, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996 "2011-02-20T08:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Heropsychodreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Heropsychodreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heropsychodreamer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/61 "2011-02-24T15:59:44Z")
Real men tell the teenaged bag boy to use plastic, and double them up. Then throw them away (not recycle) after one use. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/62 "2011-03-01T03:53:29Z")
I knew a Kiwi over here – he was a Scot but had emigrated to New Zealand as a boy, so sometimes he would refer to himself as a Scot and sometimes as a Kiwi – who carried this big purse thingy with him that he had all his stuff crammed inside. He referred to it as his “man sack,” and even he could not keep from laughing after saying it. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/63 "2011-03-01T15:15:54Z")
[Should he scrap paper for the ever-popular tote](http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/ervolino/116554493_Should_he_scrap_paper_for_the_ever-popular_tote_.html) This appeared in our Sunday February 20th nespaper. Talk about a crazy coincidence! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/64 "2011-03-01T16:00:05Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I’m really trying to think of a grocery store that doesn’t sell gender-neutral bags. Nope. None come to mind. To be fair, the [Earth Day bags from Wegmans](http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&productId=689477) are fairly girly, with soft pastel colors and illustrations of flowers. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/65 "2011-03-02T15:23:57Z")
[Car Talk Reusable Shopping Bags](http://www.shamelesscommerce.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SHOPBAG) ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/66 "2011-03-02T17:38:18Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I knew a Kiwi over here – he was a Scot but had emigrated to New Zealand as a boy, so sometimes he would refer to himself as a Scot and sometimes as a Kiwi – who carried this big purse thingy with him that he had all his stuff crammed inside. He referred to it as his “man sack,” and even he could not keep from laughing after saying it. And of course the sporran is hung in front to imply that so is the Scotsman. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![alindallas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@alindallas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alindallas)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/67 "2011-03-04T13:31:26Z")
We don’t have bags in Texas. Only sacks. I ask for paper sacks because they can be reused/recycled. I KNOW they don’t really recycle the plastic ones. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/68 "2011-03-05T00:32:31Z")
> [@alindallas](#): > > We don’t have bags in Texas. Only sacks. > > I ask for paper sacks because they can be reused/recycled. I KNOW they don’t really recycle the plastic ones. We had “bags” in West Texas. Sacks, too; maybe those were used by East Texas transplants. ---
**Author:** ![SpyOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@SpyOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpyOne)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/69 "2011-03-05T13:58:11Z")
Step One: make a friend in the UK. Step Two: persuade that friend to send you some UK only swag, perhaps by sending him some swag not available in the UK. Step Three: gently point out to said friend that he can buy canvas bags from the guy who wrote the song “Canvas Bags”, and you could sing the song while taking those bags to the shops, if only those bags were available in the US. The bags in question come in manly black, and have the title of one of his other songs on it, the very manly “I am so f\*\*king rock” (Asterisks present on the bags). > **[Tim's playing a handful of solo dates in Australia this summer!](https://www.timminchin.com/)** > > Tim Minchin is a comedian, actor, composer, songwriter, pianist and director. ---
**Author:** ![Chapulin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chapulin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chapulin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/70 "2011-03-05T19:03:12Z")
I don’t understand why you use your own bags when they give you all the bags you need right there in the checkout line. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/71 "2011-03-05T19:15:53Z")
A lot of places are starting to discourage using disposable bags. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/73 "2013-01-10T20:43:05Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/75 "2019-02-20T10:19:09Z")
> [@alindallas](#): > > I ask for paper sacks because they can be reused/recycled. I KNOW they don’t really recycle the plastic ones. My store _really does_ send the bags in the recycle bin to a recycler. So, we recycle, but maybe the recycler is sending the plastic bags to the landfill…? We also _really do_ recycle cardboard. In fact, we _get money_ for the bales of cardboard so it’s in our best interests to do that for real, as otherwise we would have to _pay money_ to get all that hauled away. Either way - my store hasn’t reached Texas (yet). As for the OP - seriously? I mean sure, I see some “girly” grocery bags with puppies and kittens and flowers and butterflies, but most of the reusable totes are either a plain, solid color or a solid color with a company logo, or for the ones you buy at grocery stores maybe pictures of fruits and/or vegetables. Regardless, grocery bags don’t have a gender, they’re manufactured, not bred in the backroom of the store. If you really feel a need for a manly man’s bag get ones with hardware store or vehicle company logos on them. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/76 "2019-02-20T10:37:10Z")
This eight-year-old thread is now looking for Grocery Bag for Zombie… ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/77 "2019-02-20T11:41:57Z")
Zombies gotta eat, too - what, do you expect them to go out and kill their own food? Do you know how hard it is to stagger/shamble that fast? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/78 "2019-02-20T14:43:51Z")
[Moderating] This thread was bumped not by **Broomstick** , but by a spammer, who has since been recycled. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/79 "2019-02-20T15:16:00Z")
1. Put the bag over your head. 2. Nobody will be thinking about the bag’s gender implications. 3. Zombie profit. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/80 "2019-02-20T15:57:05Z")
I found a pair of parachute pants at a Goodwill for 99 cents. I wear them when I go shopping, everything fits inside the pants so I don’t need any bags. One warning, keep the frozen stuff down low. I once accidentally put some frozen stuff near the boys, by the time I got home everything had shrunk a bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/81 "2019-02-20T18:05:04Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > I found a pair of parachute pants at a Goodwill for 99 cents. I wear them when I go shopping, everything fits inside the pants so I don’t need any bags. You are excessively legitimate to cease this practice. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996/82 "2019-02-20T18:48:25Z")
Go to the Isle of Man to buy some grocery bags. Hire a zombie to carry them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-find-grocery-bag-for-man/571996.md?page=5)