Tonight I was distracted by the fact that one of my friends ordered her groceries online. Of course I had to do a search and see what exactly could be delivered to your door in the name of technology. It wasn’t what COULD be delivered that surprised me, it was what COULDN’T.
“Real” food is an idea that most people are in the middle of shunning, which I have learned from the near-razing I receive at my place of work. And this is exactly what can’t be bought at your local, online grocery store. For coffee, one of my passions, there is Folgers or Arbuckles (never even heard of this one) which most likely was roasted 6 months prior to being shipped to whatever storage building it is in, alternatively freezing and thawing for 2 months before some poor sucker orders it online. For meat, something our ancestors ate fresh from the hunt (or whatever), there are neatly contained brown tissue, canned and packaged to make a person think its actually meat still. As if it were every truly a living, breathing organism and may still contain nutrients (which is the point of eating food, right everyone?). Does anyone ever consider how corn syrup made its way into pork? Gross.
I love grocery shopping… so going online seems like a cop-out for me. And how can a girl pick out her own fresh veggies and fruits online? Impossible!
