Blade Runner 2049 is full of stuff fighting for the audience's attention. The resulting battleground leaves one wondering what the movie is all about. Too many “things” are casually killed (and human life is so under valued) in the movie, it is hard to argue that the movie is about what it is to be human. No one in the movie acts humanely.
Human orphans being used as slave labor dilutes the effect of Replicants also being a slave labor force.
In my opinion, the music in the movie takes you out of the movie. The music sounds in a lot of places like an elephant stampede.
Blade Runner 2049 is about a Replicant Officer K (Ryan Gosling) who's job it is to “retire” older model Replicants. Officer K has a holographic girlfriend and he discovers something while retiring a Replicant that links back to Officer Deckard from the first Blade Runner movie.
Apparently,
A lot of people who've seen the movie were quickly persuaded that there was in fact something tender and genuine about Officer K's “relationship” with his holographic girlfriend Joi. I may have bought the relationship had Officer K been shown first alone without any emotional outlet. I think the movie wants us to believe that Officer K loved Joi.
It is probably worth noting that the Joi holographic girlfriend system is a product of the Wallace Corporation, the company that also makes Replicants.
There is a point in the movie where a generic Joi hologram appears before Officer K with black eyes saying things that Officer K thought were special about his specific Joi. The black eyed Joi brought to mind a robotic Katherine Ross in the movie The Stepford Wives.
With the original Tyrell Replicants in the first Blade Runner, the concern was that Replicants would develop emotions if they were allowed a lifespan longer than four years.
In Blade Runner 2049, it seems to be a given that the new Wallace Corp Replicants have emotions, they are simply designed to not act on their emotions. Wallace Corp Replicants are designed to obey humans and to act only within the confines of their assigned duties. I think this is best illustrated by tears on the “Luv” Replicant's emotionless face.
I suspect that the repeated assaults on Officer K's emotional well being in the movie are intended to be something akin to the assaults lobbied against Jane Fonda's character in the movie “They Shoot Horses Don't They”.
Watching the movie Jacob's Ladder to it's conclusion, you are left with the feeling that you'd just watched a guy be tortured for two hours. The attacks on Officer K's Person in Blade Runner 2049 would definitely be seen as torture by more audience members if they had been told that Officer K was human.
Spoilers In the Blade Runner 2049 I saw, Officer K finally recognizes the wisdom and humanity in Tyrell originally limiting Replicants to a four year lifespan.
The original Blade Runner's Roy Batty is famous for lamenting not having more life. In Blade Runner 2049, Officer K apparently feels he has had much too much.
Cruelly, the movie shows us that Officer K's final thoughts are about an implanted, manufactured memory of snow falling on his hand.
With Valerian, Luc Besson relies too heavily on the appeal of Valerian stars Dane DeHaan and Cara Delvingne. Also, some of the “setup scenes” that setup the main plot of Valerian are so long that they play out like unrelated detours from the main story.
A lot of critics of the movie Valerian focused in on what they see as the tragic mis-casting of Dane DeHaan as Valerian. However, given how long Luc Besson has thought about making Valerian, it is safe to say that DeHaan gives exactly the performance Besson wanted. The movie Besson produced simply does not provide the background necessary to get the audience to accept DeHaan as a swashbuckling player.
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne play government agents Major Valerian and Sergeant Laureline who are sent on a mission to retrieve a “last of it species animal” that is being offered for sale at an inter-galactic multi-dimensional flea market. The animal is revealed to be related to a government conspiracy that Valerine and Laureline slowly unravel. All of the scenes / sub plots in Valerian service that main plot / conspiracy. The problem, as said, is that some of the scenes / sub plots are so long, it can be hard to see how the scenes service the main plot. For example,
The Whole Rihanna Thing in Valerian plays out like one gigantic unrelated detour in the movie. The Rihanna-related scenes are so long, the audience probably forgets why Valerian needed Rihanna's character.
In fact, Valerian seeks out Rihanna's character to rescue Laureline from an alien compound without creating a diplomatic incident. However, Valerian ends up killing the king of the alien compound where Laureline is being held even with Rihanna's help.
It is possible that casting Rihanna was done for marketing reasons, like the casting of Kris Wu. Kris Wu is a Chinese / Canadian Pop Singer who plays Captain Neza in the Government Control Room. Wu's look sorta steals the scenes he's in in the movie.
Bottom line?
The movie Valerian plays out like the last episode of a ten episode scifi presentation.
update July 16, 2017. There is going to be a remake of Naken on Netflix with Marlon Wayans.
A few years ago, I ran into screencaps online from the Swedish comedy Naken (2000) starring Henrik Norberg. The movie seemed to be full of Henrik running around nude. There are a lot of nude guys in the movie.
From time to time, I searched for a version of the movie with English sub-titles with no success. Well, someone has now posted the Swedish version of the movie on youtube.
From what I can tell, Naken is about a guy trying to make it to his wedding on time with a little bit of Ground Hog Day thrown in.
Henrik Norberg's character is about to be married and one of his not so friendly friends ( Martin Forsström's character) is determined to sabotage Henrik's wedding and relationship with his fiancee. The friend wants Henrik's fiancee for himself. To destroy the wedding,
The friend throws a wild bachlor party for Henrik, in which he photographs Henrik making out with other women and he gets Henrik drunk.
Once Henrik has passed out from drinking, the Friend dumps Henrik naked in an elevator in a strange building and sets up a tale that Henrik had anal sex with a man by inserting a condom on Henrik's butt.
The movie then is about Henrik waking up naked in the elevator of a strange building trying to get various people to help him find clothes and make it to his wedding on time. Every time Henrik fails to make it to his wedding on time, the day starts over again with him waking up naked in the elevator.
I've seen a picture for a Naken Again so, maybe there was a sequel to Naken.
When an otherworldly force wreaks havoc on a war-torn European city, an engineer teams up with an elite Special Ops unit to stop it
Ridley Scott himself has described the movie Alien as “a B-movie with A production values”. In a documentary on the making of the movie Alien, Scott says it was the shot of The Space Jockey in the juggernaut that first tipped off the audience that Alien was going to be a very special kind of B-movie.
Spectral (2016), like Alien, is a very special kind of B-movie.
Most of the reviews of the movie Spectral fail to marvel at just how great the movie looks. Spectral's plot is like the movie Aliens with the same production values of Aliens, if not better. Except, Spectral takes place in a war torn european city instead of on another planet. And, Spectral unfortunately does not have a beast as terrifying as H.R. Giger's Alien.
The one major fault I have with Spectral is that it unnecessarily puts a child in danger.
I came away from Spectral wondering where it was filmed (Budapest) and how many hundreds of millions of dollars it cost to make the movie.
Had Spectral had a better monster, it would have made a great theatrical release. While Spectral was made as a theater film, it was released on Netflix.
Alien: Covenant plays as a major course correction by Ridley Scott and company from the themes of the movie Prometheus.
While the beginning of Alien: Covenant is surprisingly entertaining, the movie then sinks to being a campy good android / bad android drama. It seems to be required that writer John Logan include a gay kissing scene in everything he does.
Alien: Covenant vs Predator
Ridley Scott and a lot of Alien Franchise Fanatics are very fond of dismissing the film Alien vs Predator. However, Alien vs Predator was written by the creators of The Alien Story, Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett. And, as of this writing, it looks like Alien: Covenant's debut was lower than that of Alien vs Predator's debut in 2004.
The Alien's Backstory in Prometheus / Alien: Covenant is hardly better than (and can even be labeled “derivative of”) the Alien's Backstory in Alien vs Predator.
What ended up being the movies Prometheus and Alien: Covenant was clearly based on a script titled “Alien: Engineers” by writer Jon Spaihts. In the script Alien: Engineers, “The Engineers” are shown as introducing Pyramid technology to early humans, something that the Predators were shown doing in Alien vs Predator.
Alien: Engineers was a straight forward prequel to the movie Alien. And, it is clear that, while Ridley Scott and Company liked the Alien: Engineers story, they also clearly wanted to stretch that story out over multiple movies. Scott brought in Lost's Damon Lindelof (with an executive producer's credit) for Lindelof to work that “mystery-within-a-mystery magic” Lindelof used to stretch the tv show Lost out way beyond the point where Lost made any sense.
With the killing of Elizabeth Shaw and the killing of all of what appeared to be “The Engineers” in Alien: Covenant, it is hard to tell what exactly we saw in Alien: Covenant and, where exactly The Alien Franchise stands. Alien: Covenant clearly shows that Ridley Scott has no clear vision of where The Alien Franchise is going, that Scott is willing to do pivots on what is “canon” with the franchise (such as “is an Alien Queen required to produce Alien Eggs”).
Scott dodged a direct question by Empireonline on if there is an Alien Queen in his vision of the franchise. Note, an egg morphing scene was cut from the original Alien movie.
The less than stellar box office take of Alien: Covenant hopefully will cause Scott and Company to re-consider how many meaningless movies they can squeeze out of Jon Spaihts' Alien: Engineers script.
House of Air: An anthropological study of gay semiotics, taxonomies, and sexual behaviours.
Directed by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (with apologies to Hal Fischer) Featuring Rowland, Harry Clayton-Wright, JD Dean, Drew Kingston, Brendan Maclean, Ashley Ryder
How does a music video with gay oral sex, fisting and scat stay up on youtube?
I think its disgusting to pile a bunch of fruits and vegetables into a blender, liquefy it all and drink the whole thing. People doing this should examine their waste to see how much of their smoothies are passing through their systems undigested. And, it is hard to imagine how a great amount of these smoothies are not being digested.
I get that some people argue that the best way to assimilate the nutrients in food is to eat the food. However, I don't know how anybody can make a credible argument that drinking liquefied fruits and vegetables is better than juicing because you don't get the fiber when you juice. Guess What? You bypass the first stage of digestion (chewing and saliva) when you liquefy food in a blender.
I admit there are things you need to do when juicing. Like, first of all, recognizing that juice is concentrated food. I got wild blood sugar swings from drinking too much juice at once. I also get acid indigestion if I don't dilute citrus juice with water. Really, I think juices should be consumed with a spoon like soup in a way that it mixes with your saliva and fiber supplements should be taken. There is a company (National Enzyme Company) that sells enzyme capsules that approximate the enzymes in saliva. Slowly sipped juice with enzyme supplements and fiber supplements SHOULD (in my opinion) respond to most of the criticism of juicing.
BACK IN THE DAY, I think most people assumed that the people liquefying their fruit and vegetables in blenders couldn't afford a high-end juicer.
The Norwalk Juicer I bought in the 70's for $795 is sitting in storage. It is an older model that is probably too expensive to refurbish. New Norwalks are selling for $2,000.
One of the most disgusting things I've seen in while is the below video of Dr Rhonda Patrick chuncking all of this shit into a blender to liquefy and drink as a smoothie. Apparently, Dr. Rhonda doesn't believe in juicing.
01:25:10 - Joe throws a curveball by bringing up a documented case of presumed oxalate induced nephropathy (kidney disease) from 1985 to 2010 – only 36 patients documented by paper. Only three patients really suspected that it was caused by raw juicing.foundmyfitness.com
I don't see how juicing can be worst than liquefying all of this shit in a blender.
That "Say What?" Moment with BioHackers
I'm no medical technician. My only claim to fame is that I was into live foods, mega-vitamin therapy kundalini yoga etc. before they became fabs, before the masses latched onto them. And,
As I catch up on all of these things the kids are doing today, there is almost always "A Say What Moment" when something the kids are doing seems shockingly retro-gressive. For example,
Kevin Rose praising this guy Wm Hof who's breathing exercises sound like bastardized yoga kriyas. I think as Rose learns more about Kundalini Yoga his priorities might change. And then there is ...
Tim Ferriss and AcroYoga. Yoga is a religious practice. Bruce LaBruce shared a joke with Karl Lagerfeld about clueless westerners doing Yoga For Exercise, i.e., latching onto yogic practices without realizing that yoga is a religious practice.
Dr. Rhonda Patrick. That someone would knowingly publish a video about how she liquefies all of these fruits, vegetables and seeds in a blender and drinks it every morning tells me that you should take everything Patrick says with a grain of salt.
The blog QueerMeNow posted video of Brent Corrigan doing a live sex show at HustlaBallLV. So,
I'm guessing Brent Corrigan didn't get rich off of whatever he was paid for the use of his names by the producers of The movie King Cobra. It is probably also safe to assume that the authors of the book King Cobra is alleged to be based on also did not make a fortune.
Is It Over?
Keep in mind that "certain people" have dedicated the last ten years of their lives to The Bryan Kocis Murder even when they had / have no readily apparent way of profiting from the story.
What do the Bryan Kocis fanatics do now?
The original agenda of The Fanatics was claimed to be to protect Brent Corrigan.
Kevin Rose is probably most "famous" for being the co-founder of the website DIGG. I followed Kevin on twitter for the same reason I followed Jason Calacanis, i.e., they are both respected web pioneers. However,
I recently became aware of an array of exotic fitness routines / bodyhacks that Kevin Rose and his friends (Tim Ferriss, Joe Rogan, Ben Greenfield, Dr. Rhonda Patrick etc) are into. Really,
As someone who was into exotic health routines in the 70's (Live Foods / Mega-Vitamin Therapy), looking at what Kevin and his friends are doing NOW is a peek at what the kids are doing. It is interesting how some things that were extremely exotic in the 70's are now routine with the bodyhackers and, how some things that were fairly routine in the 70's (like sprouting seeds) seem like they are new to the kids. For example,
In an interview with Ben Greenfield, Kevin Rose said he had never heard of Kundalini Yoga. He's into micro dosing of lithium but he's never heard of Kundalini Yoga. In fact (dare I say), some of the breathing exercises of a guy name Wm Hof (who Kevin Rose swears by) come across as bastardized yoga breathing exercises.
Simulating Fasting
It is "interesting" how a lot of people with medical degrees are now saying things about fasting that years ago you only heard from people like Arnold Ehret and Yogis. While THE KIDS all seem to now be into fasting, they are into ways of simulating fasting, they eat food while tricking the body into thinking that it is fasting. The Question I don't see answered is what's so wrong with an actual juice fast? Kevin Rose created A Fasting App and there are products out there to trick the body into thinking it is fasting.
No way would I drink any Kombucha resulting from the above brewing procedure. It always gets me when I see people handle the Kombucha Scoby with their hands. I personally don't think you can get human hands clean enough to handle scobys.
Back when I was juicing (fruit and vegetables) a lot, juice from carrots would last a week if you peeled the outer skin of the carrots. There was no amount of cleaning of the carrots or pouring boiling water over the cleaned carrots that got the carrots clean enough for the juice to last a week without peeling away the outer layer of the carrots.
Ordered A New Kombucha Scoby
I was absent mindedly pouring out some fermented Kombucha from the brewing vessel into a mason jar. I replaced the coffee filter on the brewing vessel and reached over for my spray bottle of vinegar to spray over the coffee filter (to prevent mold) and sprayed. The bottle I picked up and squirted over my Kombucha had a black top like my bottle of vinegar but, it wasn't my bottle of vinegar, it was a cleaning product.
Rather than hope that none of the cleaning product got into the brewing vessel, I just threw away the Kombucha. Fortunately, I had separated my one huge mass of scobys into two masses of scobys in two different brewing vessels a couple of days before. So, I had another brewing vessel with a Kombucha Scoby and tea. Still,
I ordered a new Kombucha Scoby just so I again have a backup in case something happens to one brewing vessel.
The last time I ordered a scoby, it seemed to double in size within a week.
The UK TV Show Shameless got my attention because of its Gay characters and storylines but, mostly, the show is stupid, vulgar and repetitive. Also, one gets the feeling that the production eagerly looked forward to the time when the kid characters on the show would be old enough to do nude scenes.
There is a US version of Shameless and, I can't help but wonder what somebody saw in the UK Show that interested them enough to port it to the US. Shameless is like the Black US Show "Good Times" only with poor UK Whites. Like,
There are videos on Youtube that compare the UK and US versions of the show and, you can see that the US show actually recreates stupid plotlines and scenes from the UK series. Why?
Actor Elliott Tittensor started out on Shameless playing one of the kids with his twin brother Luke sharing the character. He got to "that age" where the show frequently presented him in nude scenes. Elliott also grew to be taller than the two actors who play his older brothers.
The closet gay character Mickey played by Ciarán Griffiths was hilarious in the beginning but, the show just didn't seem to know what to do with the character.
You can get a plain slice of cheese pizza at a lot of store fronts in Mid-Town Manhattan for $.99. However, in my neighborhood, a single slice of pizza with a couple of toppings is about $4.50. I've actually bought meatball heroes for $6.00 to get that "pizza effect" rather than pay $4.50 for one slice of pizza. It generally takes me a couple of days to eat a whole medium pizza but, I'd rather waste $10.00 on a whole pizza (by not eating all of it) than pay $4.50 for one pizza slice.
I was actually about to try making a slow cooker pizza until I found The Brothers Green Eats video on flatbread pizza.
I can see making plain cheese flatbread pizza a lot (or, cheese and vegetables / onions). I always have this problem with buying meat because I usually can't eat meat fast enough; it ends up sitting in the fridge until I can't remember when I bought it. So far,
I've made flatbread with: 1. sausage 2. sausage and onions and 3. just cheese
Also, flatbread seems to last a lot longer than regular bread or a roll of french bread.
update 12/29/2016. I made the pea soup with basil pesto blended by my local grocery store and, obviously, since I am only one person, there was basil pesto left over. I happened to search "how long does basil pesto last" and it seems that the basil in basil pesto makes the product last only days after opening. GIVEN THIS, the usefulness of basil pesto pea soup might be in question (unless you want to risk storing basil pesto in the fridge for weeks). A little jar of refrigerated basil pesto cost $5.99 at my local grocery. The basil pesto leftover from the plastic container of store blended basil pesto has been in my fridge now for about 7 days.
Pea Soup always seemed like something "exotic" that you had to be a good cook to make. So, I was really excited when I found a 5 minute pea and basil pesto soup recipe on The One Pot Chef. I'd never heard of basil pesto so, I ordered some from Amazon. It turns out my local grocery store blends its own basil pesto.
It also turns out that there are a number of variations on the pea and pesto soup recipe. I tried The One Pot Chef's Recipe which is pretty much like the recipe at Cooking skills 24/7. However, the recipe at eatingideas seems more interesting because it uses regular onions and broth instead of water. I seem to get some kind of "reaction" from green onions. So, while I made The One Pot Chef's recipe with two green onions, I took the green onions out before final blending (like the recipe at Cooking Skills 24/7).
The One Pot Chef's recipe for pea soup is pretty good. It seems like a great quick recipe. However, as said, if I have the time, I think I would prefer using white onions and broth (a la the eatingideas recipe) instead of green onions and water.
While using basil pesto to make pea soup is a great quick route to a good tasting pea soup real basil pesto isn't cheap. And, there is cheese in real basil pesto.
The long list of ingredients on store bought pea soup has always bothered me. I'm thinking maybe the little cheese in basil pesto is a lesser evil than the stuff in commercial pea soup.
I was in my local Whole Foods Store bent down looking at the Goat Milk Kefir and this guy came up and excitedly grabbed a bunch of these little 1 oz bottles of stuff off of the shelf above.
The little bottles were Inner-eco TO GO 1 oz bottles of flavored coconut water kefir. The 15 oz bottles of the Inner-eco coconut water kefir were $15.95 each, the 1 oz bottles were $2.95 each.
I bought one of the little 1oz bottles of berry flavored coconut water kefir. It didn't change my life. In fact,
$15.95 for a 15 oz bottle of water kefir HAS to be THE CASE for making your own kefir. I thought $4.95 for a bottle of kombucha was too much.
It isn't even clear to me what the allure of coconut water kefir is when most people seem to admit that there isn't enough sugar in coconut water for kefir grains to thrive; that you have to alternate between batches of sugar water kefir and coconut water kefir to keep the kefir grains alive.
Since the kefir grains will eat the sugar in the coconut water, the fermented coconut water won't taste sweet; it won't / shouldn't taste like coconut water.
I personally don't find coconut water to be a pleasing taste, it tastes to me like very watered down milk.
I'm trying to decide if I should try brewing one batch of coconut water kefir. My kefir grains are multiplying very fast so, I might soon have enough grains to try a batch of coconut water kefir. However, the expense and trouble of buying live coconuts to get enough coconut water to ferment seems like more trouble than it is worth.
Kombucha Brooklyn has a video on how they "farm" kombucha scobys for shipment. I ordered my live kombucha scoby from Scoby Kombucha.
The live kombucha scoby I ordered came this way:
1. a kombucha scoby covered in kombucha tea inside a sealed plastic bag.
2. the plastic bag was placed in a mailing envelope and mailed.
As I said, a live kombucha scoby is an odd thing to get in the mail. I keep wondering what someone would think the stuff is if it was mailed to the wrong address.
My Order of Live Water Kefir Grains
I just received my order of live water kefir grains in the mail from Florida Sun Kefir. This is my "unboxing" of the live water kefir grains:
1. The plastic envelope containing the water kefir grains was small enough to fit in my back pocket; 2. There were about four or five plastic zip bags to get to a plastic container that looked like a condiment container; 3. Inside the condiment like container was a black plastic balloon type thing tied at both ends; 4. The black balloon like thing contained the live water kefir in a solution of water kefir and molasses.
Why Order Live Kombucha Scobys and Live Kefir Grains?
Cultures for Health sells nice safe looking kits for making Kombucha and Kefir (milk and water). The cultures Cultures for Health sells are dehydrated and you have to go through the process of rehydrating them. So, the question becomes: "have I rehydrated the cultures correctly?". In my particular case, my milk kefir grains seemed to be growing and working but, my water kefir grains seemed to be shrinking.
Was I drinking Water Kefir or just over sugared water?
This is a reason to order live cultures, at the very least, when you order live cultures, you get to see what live working cultures look like.
I did the rehydration process again on a new set of water kefir grains from Cultures for Health and I'm happy to say that my water kefir grains from Cultures for Health now look as big and healthy as the live water kefir grains I ordered.
It is a hoot looking at some of the videos for making kefir and kombucha. One video by one guy for making water kefir is very entertaining but it is hard to not miss that his finger nails are dirty in the video. In another video on water kefir, a man is showing a reporter how his company makes flavored water kefir and he sticks a strainer into a container to show what water kefir grains look like and he's wearing a watch, his hand and the watch touch the fermenting water kefir. How do you sanitize a watch
I had two Kombucha Starter Cultures from Cultures for Health. But, the cultures Cultures for Health sell are dehydrated, you have to go through a process to "reactivate" the cultures. So, while it looks nicer and safer to get dehydrated cultures shipped to you, you have to be careful to reactivate the cultures correctly. I've been having trouble reactivating dehydrated Water Kefir Grains.
I bought a live kombucha scoby from Amazon because: ( a ) it was mentioned in a Brothers Green Eats video and, ( b ) because I wasn't sure I was reactivating the dehydrated cultures I'd purchased correctly. I have to say,
A Live Kombucha Scoby is an odd thing to get in the mail. Not only is the Scoby itself odd, but, the Scoby is shipped in starter tea. A plastic bag containing the Scoby and Starter Tea is just placed in a brown envelope with no instructions. For details on how to make Kombucha, there is a link to a website on the package.
While I am using the live scoby to try to make Kombucha, I have to recommend Cultures for Health's dehydrated cultures, they look safer. Also, Cultures for Health seems to have more support for home culturing.
My fear that Westworld would become another convoluted mess a la ABC's Lost seems to be coming true. Only Westworld is worst than Lost, in a way, because, with Westworld, there are no boundaries, no GIVENS, it's like floating in an isolation tank. With Westworld,
You don't know WHEN it is.
You don't know WHERE it is.
You don't know who is a robot / hologram and who isn't.
You don't even know for sure what is real and what is a dream sequence... Westworld is Madness
What is "carrying" Westworld so far is that it looks nice. Westworld Makes No Sense!
I also hope that all of this throw away film footage flashed around in Westworld is spliced together eventually to make a good cowboy movie.
I have a reflex bias AGAINST all of the latest health crazes. Like,
The current craze over fresh pressed juice stores.
I bought a $750.00 Norwalk Press Juicer in the fucking 70's. I'm not about to step into some fucking pressed juice STORE. Norwalk Juicers today are about $2,000.00 but, juice from A Less Expensive Champion Juicer has to be better than buying juice in a store.
A youtuber shows himself going to a juice press store almost every day. Even if he's getting the juice for free, think of the time going out and over to a store when you can just spend about $275 to make your own juice at home with a Champion Juicer.
One thing to keep in mind with juices is that juices are concentrated foods. A glass of carrot juice equates to eating a lot of carrots. I've experienced adverse blood sugar swings drinking a glass of undiluted juice. And, I've gotten acid stomach from drinking too much undiluted orange juice.
I was ordering Kefir Grains and trying to make milk kefir out of Raw Goat's Milk in the 70's. I was buying a lactobacillus bifidus product imported from Germany decades before I ever heard the term probiotic. So,
My bias against a Whole Foods Store was that it was probably just over-priced shit you could get cheaper in a regular store and that it probably didn't have anything really exotic.
As far as I could remember,
I'd never been in a Whole Foods Store before last week. Last week,
I went to a Whole Food Store a few times looking for some exotic things that weren't in my local grocery store. First,
I was surprised that some things in Whole Foods seemed about the same price as my local grocery (like green seedless grapes). One of the brands of rolled oats I saw at Whole Foods I had purchased earlier at The 99cent Store. And,
I was very surprised that The Whole Foods Store I went to didn't have Soy Flour. Some things I did buy at Whole Foods:
1. Several bottles of Goat Milk Kefir. Eventually, I'm going to look for plain Goat Milk to make my own Goat Milk Kefir. 2. Ingredients for a raw oatmeal pie crust: raw wheat germ, tahini, honey, rolled oats. 3. Almond Nut Butter for a soup I like to make. 4. Black Tea to home ferment Kombucha 5. A couple of bottles of kombucha
My fridge is currently stocked with Lifeway Milk Kefir because The 99 Cent has them right now for $3.99.
The brand of Goat Milk Kefir I bought is rather thick. Goat Milk is more watery than Cow Milk. One particular brand of Cow Milk Kefir made in New York is also thick. My homemade milk kefir has not been as thick.
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