Slog - Comments on Here's Your Damn Coupon! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon Oh, the wretched doubters of me! Rude infidels! Unbelievers! How silly they are. Behold the following, comment 26 from this post: I think this is a crock of horse hockey. Fred Meyer coupons are very specific about the products they're good for. And I've never seen a manufacturer's coupon for "any dairy product." Scan the coupon for us to see. Posted by smells like a fish tale | August 11, 2008 9:19 PM "Horse hockey", indeed! Well, then, dear “smells like a fish tale”...because you insist: Yes. There it is, the coupon: all fugly and scanned and coupon-ey, just for... Copyright 2008 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:23:39 -0800 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:58:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Dougsf Not to split hairs, but it doesn't say "any dairy product", it says "purchase", and has a picture of yogurt, sour cream, milk, and cottage cheese(?).

Still, Fred Meyer is in the wrong on this one. Bet it doesn't work on eggs, either. Does it say anything on the back, or is it clipped from a newspaper?

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099371 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099371 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:41:07 -0800 Comment by leek Umm. Eggs being totally dairy, of course. How could Fred Meyer deny it?!

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099373 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099373 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:42:46 -0800 Comment by Non Such a sad life yours seems to be when reflecting on what you come up with to bitch about.

You must be absolutely dreadful to be around/date/love

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099375 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:43:27 -0800 Comment by elenchos Loving Adrian! is not dreadful, Non. Each day of loving him opens up beautiful new vistas. As does each day of hating your inane posts.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099379 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099379 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:47:10 -0800 Comment by leek Uh oh... I totally bitch about stuff like this (proving I'm right when someone insists I'm not). I guess this explains why no one wants to be around me or make the sweet love. Sniff!

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099382 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099382 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:48:01 -0800 Comment by COMTE Which is worse, I wonder, the one who bitches, or the one who bitches about the bitching?

Hm....

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099386 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099386 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:49:35 -0800 Comment by COMTE Oh, and as a former employee of a dairy products manufacturer, I can say without equivocation that - CHEESE is FUCKING DAIRY!

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099389 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:51:21 -0800 Comment by Eliza What category do eggs fall under? They're in the dairy case but they're not from cows. They're sort of like pre-meat, but they're not in the meat case. What rubric do they fall under?

]]> Eliza http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099395 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099395 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:57:03 -0800 Comment by Non I am not the one being inane here, elenchos.

Really? A blog entry about "ZOMG"!! WRONGED BY COUPONS AT THE FRED MAYER!

Adrian must have some SERIOUS dirt on Dan Savage to be kept around for this long, even at such a diminished capacity.

Well, at least he can keep it on his resume along with waiting tables.

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099398 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099398 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:58:39 -0800 Comment by adrian! keep going, please, NON! you are endlessly amusing in your total wrongness about every little thing. and let me tell you this one last time, you silly little fuckwit: i have never waited a table, as much as you might wish and wish that i had for some reason. i have never worked in food service. and my resume is none of your fucking business.

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099401 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:02:40 -0800 Comment by banjoboy @8: Aborted unborn children, dammit!

]]> banjoboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099403 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099403 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:04:06 -0800 Comment by wisepunk Never doubt the Adrian!

]]> wisepunk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099409 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099409 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:08:42 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity I totally adore Adrian's lunatic rants. They're consistently among the funniest posts on Slog.

]]> Reverse Polarity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099410 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099410 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:09:06 -0800 Comment by Amelia God I love Fred Meyer...

]]> Amelia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099411 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099411 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:11:27 -0800 Comment by kinaidos It would seem that cottage cheese counts as dairy, based on the photo. So it must cease to become a dairy product after it is set up as hard cheese.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099413 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:13:09 -0800 Comment by max solomon as long as everyone pronounces it "KOO-pon", not fucking "Queue-pon", then i don't give a fig.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099414 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099414 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:13:30 -0800 Comment by Brendan T. I'm in love. I don't know with what or whom. @#3 - gag on it.

- B

]]> Brendan T. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099424 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099424 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:23:50 -0800 Comment by Julie How are eggs even remotely dairy? Dairy means it is milk or a milk product. Is there really confusion here?

]]> Julie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099425 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099425 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:25:22 -0800 Comment by Freddy Kroeger Hmmmmmmmmm.

Computer says No.

Hack.

]]> Freddy Kroeger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099426 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099426 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:26:08 -0800 Comment by Soupytwist Step off, Non, you bitter sack of wannabe!

@elenchos - You are so right about loving Adrian! A beautiful vista indeed!

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099427 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:26:43 -0800 Comment by um i think im in love.

]]> um http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099428 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099428 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:27:17 -0800 Comment by rjh The funny part here is that Adrian (and many of you) are arguing the fine points of food science with a room-temperature-IQ Fred Meyer checkout clerk.

]]> rjh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099430 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:28:03 -0800 Comment by um oh and, eggs aren't dairy or meat, they're parve.

]]> um http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099431 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:28:36 -0800 Comment by exiledinLA i think we are all avoiding the real issue here. adrian is obviously correct about the cheese, since it still contains many of the lactose bits that would define it as "dairy" (pushed and prodded, but still, dairy bits). But what about butter?!?!? you have to have started with the "dairy" (again, lactose) but then take out all the fats (not dairy) and lump them together. that's a more interesting argument than this one, on which Adrian has clearly PWNd all you haters.

and yeah, KOO-pons suck.

]]> exiledinLA http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099435 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099435 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:31:17 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle The text says Dairy.

The picture says Eggs, Milk, and Yogurt.

Don't see any Cheese.

SUE THEM!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099442 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099442 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:37:54 -0800 Comment by was: smells like a fish tale/now: how could I have doubted adrian Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Thanks for scanning the coupon.

Although I can guess what they meant by "dairy," Fred Meyer will be hard pressed to define the coupon to exclude cheese from the definition of dairy.

Dairy: fluid milk products, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream. Not cheese or ice cream.

]]> was: smells like a fish tale/now: how could I have doubted adrian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099451 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099451 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:48:10 -0800 Comment by Julie Sometimes Will in Seattle makes me doubt my own sanity. Unless I'm going crazy, there are no eggs in that picture.

]]> Julie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099453 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099453 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:48:33 -0800 Comment by Self-Hating Hipster COMMENT DELETED: OFF TOPIC/SPAM

We remove comments that are off topic, threatening, or commercial in nature, and we do not allow sock-puppetry (impersonating someone else)—or any kind of puppetry, for that matter. We never censor comments based on ideology.

]]> Self-Hating Hipster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099463 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099463 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:05:11 -0800 Comment by brokeass non-hipster drinking your PBR tallboys

Why hate on the PBR tallboy? I'd rather be sipping maitais but the PBR is priced for my budget.

]]> brokeass non-hipster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099471 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099471 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:11:33 -0800 Comment by banjoboy You know what would be awesome? If hundreds of people with this coupon descended on the store at the same time and tried to use it for eggs, cheese, soy milk, goat's milk, tofu, ice cream, non-dairy creamer etc etc. And scream that they're discriminating against the disabled (lactose-intolerant) and Asians (many lactose-intolerant) and vegans. The words genocide and hate-crime should be thrown around carelessly.

Adrian, please arrange and record. Thx! :)

]]> banjoboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099482 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099482 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:27:37 -0800 Comment by RainMan Eggs, of course, aren't dairy since they don't come from the business end of a cow. As @23 points out, they're parve. I do wonder about Velveeta, however.

]]> RainMan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099483 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099483 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:27:43 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 Its mostly likely just that grocery stores put cheese with the meat in the deli department.

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099498 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099498 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:23:26 -0800 Comment by Katie B I'm with #16! What the hell is a q-pon?

]]> Katie B http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099509 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099509 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:26:49 -0800 Comment by Papayas This is totally weird. I agree with elenchos.

Yeah, and what's up Will in Seattle? Don't make me think I'm crazy. Eggs are not dairy. Eggs are not in the picture.

I support a coupon protest! Try to use the coupons for eggs, cheese and soy milk. God, I wish I lived in Seattle.

]]> Papayas http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099516 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099516 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:48:02 -0800 Comment by alex maybe "horse hockey" just wanted you to scan the coupon so he could print it off and save three bucks?

]]> alex http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099533 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:09:32 -0800 Comment by Lolo i live in anchorage and I also tried to use my coupon to buy some cheese. If you look closely it does say that the purchase must be a minimum of $5. I was also informed by the cashier that the purchase had to be one dairy item.

I still think it is a total load of bullshit.

]]> Lolo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099541 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:16:57 -0800 Comment by The Warden I tried to use mine a few hours back to get some yogurt and everything was proceeding swimmingly until that coupon was scanned--chaos ensued, the register locked up, and I'd probably still be there waiting if it weren't for my resourceful cashier who used math of all skills to figure out the price with the discount. I applaud you Fred Meyer woman. Now I have a fresh bowl of Greek Yogurt waiting for the arrival of it's friends blueberries, grapes and melon. Solid.

]]> The Warden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099551 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099551 Retail Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:27:37 -0800 Comment by Yuk bet silly goats like Adrian don't know you can use that coupon at QFC - cause Fred M. owns them - Adrian try it on Bwy. late at night - the nice guys work then and you are of the night... n'est pas?

small drama in small lives

eggs are dairy - cows now shit eggs?

honeys go to the farm zoo for a few hours

]]> Yuk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099669 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:48:19 -0800 Comment by Jennifer Q-Pon. I will not change and I will not apologize.

]]> Jennifer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099832 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099832 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:51:44 -0800 Comment by Original Monique Adrian! once again proves he is ALWAYS right. When will you people understand that?

Jeeeezzzz.

Also, Non: Dude/tte don't hate on what you can't have. I know it's hard, because Adrian is so amazing, but really. Your jealousy is ugly. Hell, I'd want try to turn him straight if I could, but I can't. Some dreams we just have to let go of. Now fly away Non....Fly away...

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099879 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099879 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:51:04 -0800 Comment by COMTE @24:

Butter is dairy, no question. It's just cream that has had most of the whey (the liquid) removed and then been agitated (churned) to emulsify the remaining liquid with the fats and solids.

@26:

Ice Cream NOT dairy? You're joking, right?

Look there's a very simple test to determine whether something is dairy or not: find a friend who's Lactose Intolerent, and ask them which of the following list of products they can or cannot consume:

Milk
Cheese
Sour Cream
Yogurt
Cottage Cheese
Ice Cream
Butter

I can pretty much guaran-fucking-tee you every item above will be on their "can't consume" list.

Depending on the degree of their intolerence, they MIGHT be able to handle small amounts of any of these items, but they're still going to have some sort of adverse reaction depending on the amount consumed.

In short: if someone who's LI can't eat it, it's dairy.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099920 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099920 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:47:26 -0800 Comment by Cattymaran Adrian's a guy?

]]> Cattymaran http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099927 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099927 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:51:17 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @27 - the dairy aisle in Fred Meyer has eggs. If you shopped there you'd know that.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099964 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1099964 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:19:32 -0800 Comment by max solomon @39: just consult dicionary.

and Kudos is singular.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1100014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1100014 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:58:57 -0800 Comment by Jennifer 44 -
That's the way folks said it where I grew up, and that's the way I'm going to keep saying it.

]]> Jennifer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1100033 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1100033 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:13:31 -0800 Comment by elswinger I would have used the picture on the coupon as a guide, but you are right, cheese is a dairy product.

Granted, most cheese is in the deli section, however, most of the "gourmet" cheese is usually found near the dairy department.

I wonder what would have happened if you tried to buy condensed milk.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1100116 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1100116 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:15:48 -0800 Comment by ab fab What the fuck is parve, anyway? It's "a Hebrew term that describes food without any animal or dairy ingredients," also/or "containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives)...Fish, eggs, fruits and vegetables are parve."

OK, eggs? While not techinically meat, I guess, are not at least a meat derivative? They're fucking chicken embryos! Abortion in a shell, people. At the very least they're lifeless, cholesterol-laden chicken ovary/chicken vagina derivatives. Doesn't that kinda sorta, politically-incorrectly make them a meat derivative?

And is a fish not an animal? While not a mammal, it is technically an animal, and oh, yes, definitely a meat (collective tissue of a dead animal)...Silly Jews.

Last but not least - if that coupon really said "any fucking dairy purchase", it would be the coolest coupon ever.

I love you, Adrian. Fuck that number 3 guy. Asshole.

]]> ab fab http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1100171 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/heres_your_damn_coupon#c1100171 Retail Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:58:00 -0800