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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 09-15-21, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Does anyone have paper bags? I can remember when they were a thing. #Old
Lots of 'em in CA. You are given a choice of those, or heavier plastic bags that are much thicker than those filmy single use ones.
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I read somewhere that the cotton bags people use hoping it’s good for the planet might not be so good allegedly because of how much water is used to make them. Tough to know what’s “best.”
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I read somewhere that the cotton bags people use hoping it’s good for the planet might not be so good allegedly because of how much water is used to make them. Tough to know what’s “best.”
I think that we (human species) are a blight on the earth, no matter what we try to do.
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I think that we (human species) are a blight on the earth, no matter what we try to do.
I am afraid that is accurate. Sigh.
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Mrs. GeneJockey is sending me listings on Realtor that are in Buffalo NY. I remember how much snow falls there. I think her plan is to have us retire there, then kill me with snow shovelling the first winter, sell up and move somewhere else.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Does anyone have paper bags? I can remember when they were a thing. #Old
Our grocier uses paper bags. They even have handles.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
You need to get out more.
None on the East Coast.



Originally Posted by genejockey
Lots of 'em in CA. You are given a choice of those, or heavier plastic bags that are much thicker than those filmy single use ones.
For free?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Does anyone have paper bags? I can remember when they were a thing. #Old
Everything old is new again.
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Our store also hires high school kids to bag and then push the cart and unload into your car. No tipping allowed. The kids then take the carts back in so none are left in the lot. Doesn't even have cart corrals.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Never heard of it.
Does the Piggly Wiggly still use plastic bags?
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Does the Piggly Wiggly still use plastic bags?
Not sure I've ever been in one, but certainly not in the last ten years.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Not sure I've ever been in one, but certainly not in the last ten years.
Not even the funniest named grocery store? Wow, you're deprived.

If you ever get out west (and up north), the Canadians have a funnily named grocery store too.


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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Not even the funniest named grocery store? Wow, you're deprived.

If you ever get out west (and up north), the Canadians have a funnily named grocery store too.
When you think about it, Food Lion is kind of funny.

Loblaws north of the border.


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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
When you think about it, Food Lion is kind of funny.

Loblaws north of the border.


Food Lion is a good one indeed.

I wonder if everyone says they're going to Bob Loblaws? I know I would.

Here's another good one from out west

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A couple guys I know have Psimet wheels. One of them is 265 pounds and the wheels have been durable. Plus, Rob seems like a good guy and I have chatted with him on BF for years.
Rob is a good guy.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Food Lion is a good one indeed.

I wonder if everyone says they're going to Bob Loblaws? I know I would.

Here's another good one from out west

We went to one of these in Sparwood, B.C. during a 2009 tour.


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Originally Posted by indyfabz
We went to one of these in Sparwood, B.C. during a 2009 tour.


Looks like Overwaitea is history now. Pour one out for 'em. I'd visited the Squamish and Penticton locations.

On March 22, 2018, the remaining two Overwaitea locations in British Columbia were closed, reopening the following day as Save-On-Foods stores.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Looks like Overwaitea is history now. Pour one out for 'em. I'd visited the Squamish and Penticton locations.
Near Vancouver?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Food Lion is a good one indeed.

I wonder if everyone says they're going to Bob Loblaws? I know I would.

Here's another good one from out west

Lloyd King. The first grocery store to have an in-store pharmacy, and a self service meat department.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Near Vancouver?
Squamish is half way between Vancouver and Whistler. Penticton is well inland from Vancouver, 160 miles as the crow flies.
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#P&RTrainspotting

Does this train have a caboose?

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Reminds me of this:

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Generally missiles are bad, but it would be cool to see a Norfolk Southern fire one off along Middlebrook Pike.
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Is that what railroad crossing signs looked like in the olden days? #Analyzing
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Is that what railroad crossing signs looked like in the olden days? #Analyzing
Maybe
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