{"id":11251,"date":"2014-10-17T13:52:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=11251"},"modified":"2014-10-30T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:37:14","slug":"not-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=11251","title":{"rendered":"Not Ebola."},"content":{"rendered":"

So it was Super Double Coupons at Harris Teeter.\u00a0 Which is about the only time I step foot into the Teeter.\u00a0 ‘Cause the Food Lion is more my economic style.\u00a0 But when Teeter is willing to double coupons up to $2.00 face value, it catches my attention.\u00a0 We don’t have a Teeter in my town so sometimes the savings isn’t worth the gas money.\u00a0 As fate would have it, though, we had dentist appointments across the street from the Teeter on the same day that the Super Doubles started.\u00a0 Of course, I knew the freebies would be picked over by the time we arrived in the late afternoon.\u00a0 Apparently, people are waiting at the doors on the morning of the sale to clean out the Super Doubles freebies.\u00a0 But by arriving at 4:30pm I would get some free items as well as a free afternoon snack for all the kids.\u00a0 The Teeter leaves out free samples of cheese, fruit, luncheon meat, and cookies everyday.\u00a0 Suckers.<\/p>\n

I was happy with the savings.\u00a0 We spent $31.23 and saved $84.24 in coupons.\u00a0 It was the usual assortment of items we would never buy unless they were free or under $.50.\u00a0 Like the Hormel Corned Beef Hash which Big loves for breakfast but leaves the house smelling like wet cat food at 6:30am.\u00a0 The GoGoSqueeze apple strawberry applesauce that has already been rejected in 3 out of 4 lunchboxes.\u00a0 The OIKOS Chocolate on Top Raspberry Truffle Greek yogurt which does not, disappointingly, taste like a chocolate bar.\u00a0 As well as some useful items like Lance Variety packs of snack crackers, Pepperidge Farm frozen garlic bread, McCormick cinnamon, McCormick parsley flakes, and Mueller’s pasta.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the entire point of this post.<\/p>\n

Mueller’s pasta.<\/p>\n

While we were picking out our free Hidden Veggie Mueller’s Spaghetti, I saw this:<\/p>\n

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I was confused.\u00a0 What was pot-sized spaghetti?\u00a0 I looked closer for the details:<\/p>\n

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Pot-Sized\u2122 Pasta<\/h1>\n

You’ve waited too long for pasta this short. With Pot-Sized\u2122 Pasta, we’ve taken our delicious, traditional pasta and cut it in half so it fits into the pot straight out of the box. Now you don’t have to break it, or deal with the mess.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pot-Sized\u2122 Pasta comes in a pantry-friendly, top-opening box for easy storage. And despite its cute size, each box still contains a full pound of pasta.<\/em><\/p>\n

Enjoy Pot-Sized\u2122 Pasta in new recipes from Mueller’s Pasta as well as all of your old favorites!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Um, what????!!!<\/p>\n

I haven’t been waiting at all for pot-sized pasta.\u00a0 BECAUSE I JUST BREAK IT MYSELF.\u00a0 Or, if I’m really feeling lazy, I drop the spaghetti in the boiling water, wait a few minutes for the submerged half to get soft, and then use the slotted spoon to push it in the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

Besides, the pot-sized pasta COST MORE THAN THE REGULAR PASTA.<\/p>\n

$.75 MORE PER BOX!!!!!<\/p>\n

WHY, AMERICA, WHY?????????????<\/p>\n

I stood there in shock, looking around to see if anyone else noticed this abomination.<\/p>\n

But, no, people were strolling the aisle calmly.\u00a0 No one took notice as the kids and I stood there, gasping and exclaiming over the pasta products.<\/p>\n

Is it just me?<\/p>\n

I mean, I get it, people.\u00a0 You don’t want to own goats in order to get milk.\u00a0 You don’t want to own chickens to get eggs.\u00a0 You don’t want to grow your own lettuce or spinach or bell peppers.\u00a0 Excellent!\u00a0 People who buy those products are supporting farmers.<\/p>\n

But why would you pay Mueller’s $.75 to break your pasta for you?\u00a0 Why??????!!!!!!<\/p>\n

Ebola might scare the rest of you.\u00a0 But Mueller’s Pot Sized Pasta is what’s keeping me awake at night.<\/p>\n

(shudder.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it was Super Double Coupons at Harris Teeter.\u00a0 Which is about the only time I step foot into the Teeter.\u00a0 ‘Cause the Food Lion is more my economic style.\u00a0 But when Teeter is willing to double coupons up to $2.00 face value, it catches my attention.\u00a0 We don’t have a Teeter in my town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11251"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11312,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions\/11312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}