Results tagged “fredmeyer”

• Capitol Hill Seattle is asking for your help in making a "Collective Hill Playlist" filled with songs about or mentioning Capitol Hill. Do you have any songs for the list? Sorry, but "Posse on Broadway" has already been mentioned.
• If you're arachnophobic, we'd recommend not reading this little item. A Ballard family that found a Black Widow spider in a bunch of grapes from their neighborhood Fred Meyer, has donated the spider to the Woodland Park Zoo's Bug World.
• Local blogs are still aflutter about an anonymous poem about Snowmageddon 2008, which could be the first local viral email of '09. Both the Big Blog and The Rainier Valley Post talked about the snow poem.

No really. It's true. According to the League of American Bikes (via the Cascade Bicycle Alliance in our case), Washington is the most bicycle friendly state in the union. According to the LAB, "Washington’s model bike laws, signed and mapped statewide bike route network, dedicated funding from the state for bicycle related programs and projects, and an active statewide bicycle advisory committee" are reasons that the state earned top honors above Wisconsin, Arizona, Oregon (numbers two, three and four respectively) and all the others.

Well, unless you want your burger to be a bun, pickles, lettuce cheese, and condiments. Or perhaps of the exotic meat or veggie variety. Local QFCs and Fred Meyers (parent company: Kroger) are recalling ground beef purchased at their stores over the past few weeks. The beef is being recalled after an outbreak of E. coli in the Midwest traced to the beef. Of course this recall comes on the heels of the are-they-or-aren't-they-killer salmonella-tainted tomatoes outbreak, which has yet to be solved.

Local supermarkets QFC and Fred Meyer have issued a recall on bottles of their Everyday Living Bleach. The companies have issued a warning about the potential for explosion when opened.

We're not one of those people who hate "chemicals." Mmm, Diet Dr Pepper.

We've thus far deferred on shipping news to Editor Dan, primarily because we are lame and don't contribute enough. Yet his last post about one of our favorite shows got us to thinking. We've tried to figure out why we find the show so compelling --maybe because it's reality/documentary about real people rather than people who want to be stars. We have in the past jokingly ranked the show more interesting than some of our own friends.

KING 5 did a great job with a story about the growing demand for organic beer.

Donna Giordano, a 25-year veteran of the of the grocery wars, has a lot to say about what's for dinner. As president of QFC, she runs 77 supermarkets in Washington and Oregon. But QFC is part of the giant Kroger Corp, and only a tiny part at that, so she has to convince the bean counters back in Cincinnati that Seattle shoppers care about quality.

Why go to the clubs when there are many hotties working at local business establishments? We've culled Craig's List, the Stranger I Saw U, and local blogs to determine where you, the reader, can find hotties without paying a cover.

Last week we toughed it out through the chilly night and made our way to the Crocodile to see The Joggers, hailing from Portland. While it filled out over the course of the evening, Seattlest was still one of few willing to brave the elements, leaving much of Seattle to miss what was a very good show, highlighted by the hijinks of a few intoxicated audience members.

We only got into mangos this year. We're not big tropical fruit fans, so when we got one in one of our first SPUD boxes, we pureed it for our daughter. And that was the first time we confronted the nightmare that is dissecting a mango.

Shopping for cartophiles this holiday season? We suggest a visit to any one of Seattle’s swell map stores.

Seattlest has long been vexed by the disappearance of hardware because we own a toolbelt and we need to keep a certain supply of nails in the pouch or it won’t jingle satisfactorily as we walk about, assessing DIY projects around the home.

Seattlest has bad weekends from time to time. They're unavoidable. Sometimes you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You burn yourself making coffee. It's raining. You realize your phone's been dead for hours. It's so packed at Fred Meyer you just give up on your 68-pack of toilet paper and get one roll from 7-11 that costs you $4 and has a layer of gross gas station dust on the top of it. The Mariners lose. Your dinner date cancels. A trip to the dock reveals a little more water in the bilge than appropriate. The humanity! You just want to get back to work on Monday morning.