{"id":4155,"date":"2013-03-25T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T18:46:39","slug":"piggly-wiggly-for-the-passive-aggressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/25\/piggly-wiggly-for-the-passive-aggressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Piggly Wiggly for the Passive-Aggressive"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Daily News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Park Slope Food Coop and the Holy Kale: The alternative grocer, where celebrities can be spotted stocking shelves, has fed Brooklyn since 1973<\/h1>\n

Insiders dish on New York City’s most pretentious grocery that involves a strict, seven-step application process and enrolling everyone in the household. A member can, however, find wild boar for 20% less than the competition.<\/em><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Stan Sagner\u00a0<\/a>AND\u00a0Nicole Lyn Pesce\u00a0<\/a>\/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n

A kale shortage incites widespread panic. A 4-year-old melts down when his parents won\u2019t buy him dried papaya spears. And members debate natural childbirth while bagging nuts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tales from the front lines of the Park Slope Food Coop, temple to locally grown, antibiotic-free, passive-aggressive grocery shopping where you\u2019ll find equal doses of corn and scorn.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we have …\u201d is a constant drone heard over intercoms the community market installed throughout the store so shoppers and employees can get info about product availability and pricing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a day when we ran out of kale and people were ready to burn the co-op to the ground,\u201d one member tells the Daily News. Like other members we spoke to, he asked that we withhold his name for fear of being booted out of the cult-like co-op. \u201cThe intercom went crazy with \u2018Do we have kale!?\u2019 \u2018Do we have kale!?\u2019 \u2018Someone needs to get fired!\u2019 It was doomsday.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chaos extends deep in to the meat aisle, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is always a generally high level of neurosis regarding running out of anything,\u201d one member shares under the strict condition of anonymity. The thirtysomething artist has been a member since 2010 and usually works in the cheese department or bagging nuts. \u201cThere was no brisket as of Friday. That may be an anxiety-volcano in the making.\u201d<\/p>\n

While working with a doula from California one shift, the subject of natural childbirth came up.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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