Boston Organics delivery

[magid]

Large box, all veggies.

• four large stalks of broccoli*
  
• two bunches of spinach
  
• five medium yellow onions
  
• eleven smallish beets
  
• two medium zucchinis
  
• five medium large Yukon Gold potatoes
  
• a bag (a third of a pound?) of sugar snap peas

And on a wholly unrelated topic, has anyone reading this used ING bank? I'm debating using the $25 check they sent (it's a pretty good incentive), but if they're a pain to deal with (in any way), I won't bother.

* It's the beginning of a mystery, really. Who's stalking broccoli and why? Does broccoli know? How will broccoli protect itself? Perhaps a self-defense class is in order?

Comments

ING

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I don't know what kind of dealings you will need but I'm a lowish-needs customer and I've been very happy with them. I also started an account with them did it because they were giving me 25 dollars and I was all in favor of what I'd need to do in order for them to give me the $25.

Sign up was easy. Transfers from my checking account have been easy. They keep increasing my interest rate (and do always let me know about it, but not with such frequency that I'm annoyed). I've never had any problems accessing their site or getting the info I need from it.

So, a thumbs up from me for ING Direct.

Re: ING

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I've gotten promotions before, but never bothered, mostly because it felt like yet-another-piece-of-junk-mail*.


* And a tiny bit because "ING" makes me think (a) of Ing the Ingrateful in Asimov's Norby books, and (b) of sad wannabe gerunds looking for their suffixes (suffices?).

[(Anonymous)]

ING: Works well. Get your $25, get a decent interest rate if you have other monies to put in a savings account. Don't forget your password, or else they'll have to mail (USPS) you a new one. Manage your acount online.

Broccoli: Heh heh! I always thought is was the broccoli doing the stalking.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, adds a tiny extra step to your state taxes, however, because it is a non-Massachusetts bank.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Good to know.
(That can be next year's new tax wrinkle; I average about one/year.)

broccoli

[magid.livejournal.com]

I could see it either way. Writing the list, somehow it seemed more stalk(ing) of broccoli, which is more the recipient of stalking, but stalk(s) of broccoli would be the broccoli PI, off on another vegetable investigation (perhaps of who killed the beet?).

Stalking

[library-sexy.livejournal.com]

Do I get to stalk some broccoli on Friday??

Re: Stalking

[magid.livejournal.com]

Very likely! (Unless I eat it as a snack beforehand again...)

[cellio]

The broccoli should pop one of the onions into a food processor. Once it's induced tears in its stalker, it should be able to slip away.

[magid.livejournal.com]

The cast starts to assemble: beets are the bleeders (and the beaters?), onions the cryers (likely not criers, though), broccoli and celery the PIs and the stalkers. Of course, this makes me wonder if I'm being species-ist...

plus

[magid.livejournal.com]

Leeks are the snitches, and tomatoes are the molls.

Re: plus

[cellio]

Is this the point where we cue up "Beware of the Sentient Chili"?

Re: plus

[magid.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

I thought this was all veggie tales...

Part of the editor in me would like to delete the 'of' in the title.

Re: plus

[cellio]

I'm making vegetarian chili for Shabbat, so I didn't have meat on the mind. Oops. (That said, I don't think the song actually mentions any meat explicitly -- the chili burbles, but veggies get all the action roles as best I recall.)

Re: plus

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yum. I haven't made chili in ages. One of my favorite variants was to make chili, then put it in a casserole and bake cornbread on top.

I wonder if there are veggie action figures?
:-)

Re: broccoli

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, exactly. I was thinking about this last night, that "stalks of broccoli" as on your list seem to make the broccoli the object, in a sense, whereas the attributive noun version of "broccoli stalks" can be mistaken for as ubject-verb pairing, making the broccoli the subject doing the action.

He stalks of broccoli in the night.

Broccoli PI looking into who killed the beet? The Beet Beat! You can't beat that.

I recall a children's book titled something like _The Celery Stalks at Midnight_.

Re: ING

[(Anonymous)]

Heh heh! Those poor wannabe gerunds!

Re: broccoli

[magid.livejournal.com]

There was a kid's book with that title, one of the Bunnicula books. I haven't read any of them, though.

Re: ING

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd probably passed on stuff from them before either because it was received on a day when junk mail went straight to the bin or because even though I like money, sometimes even the small bit I have to do to take advantage of "free" offers is just more than I want to bother with.

Hmmm. I guess I don't remember much of my Asimov since I completely don't recall Ing the Ingrateful.

Re: ING

[magid.livejournal.com]

*nod* about free stuff. Plus, all those promotions for a free month (of whatever), when I know I'd not get around to canceling in time.

The Norby stories are juveniles; you might not have read them. Fluffy, but fun.