As a founding member who moved west in 1990, I think back to the days when all there was available were the produce items we picked up at the Hunts Point market very, very early on a Thursday morning. Amazing that the Coop is now in its fifth decade. The folks who founded it would have never eaten caviar of any kind, but that was in the earliest days of gentrification of the Slope. Fond memories!
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Oh the Humanity!
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the park slope co-op is the most obnoxious place on earth
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i love shopping at the psfc..often making me smile at paged slope-isms - definitely needed now-a-days. Aisles are narrow & crowded, shoppers, people stocking shelves but overhearing (kiddie) conversations often is priceless. Like no other place!
We usually have a few delicious hot chocolate mixes + equal exchange...bottom shelf under teas closest to back refrigerated sections.
We usually have a few delicious hot chocolate mixes + equal exchange...bottom shelf under teas closest to back refrigerated sections.
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Why is the NY Times so obsessed with the Park Slope Food Coop? Aren't Whole Foods (whole paycheck) and Zabars better topics for ridicule?
The PSFC was created 43 years ago by ordinary people on the site where it still exists. It has grown from a few dozen to many thousands of members based on the economic and cultural values it offers. It is the largest and most successful nonprofit food coop in the country, by far.
Meanwhile the Times is drowning in obsolescent irrelevance, shrinking every year.
Mock yourselves, why don't you?
The PSFC was created 43 years ago by ordinary people on the site where it still exists. It has grown from a few dozen to many thousands of members based on the economic and cultural values it offers. It is the largest and most successful nonprofit food coop in the country, by far.
Meanwhile the Times is drowning in obsolescent irrelevance, shrinking every year.
Mock yourselves, why don't you?
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More successful than Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco?
"All the news that's fit to print"? Spare us this drivel. Don't contribute to the dumbing down of journalism.
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If these are actual exchanges, they are quite amusing. Even more so, if overheard in the timeline as edited. There is so much virtuous existential angst going on here it's as if, these are the walls of the Park Slope Coop breathing, oozing it out through the speakers. Please add me to the amused!
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The land under the co-op is worth millions. Why haven't they sold the building and moved someplace else with more space?
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Convenience trumps greed?
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Even the masses love co-ops?
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(In which person who makes mistake owns it and rectifies it, at his own time and expense, rather than the community doing it for him.)
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I am so amused, but wish Freddie were around to put the scene to music. How about "Yes, we have no bananas"?
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LOL Martha, I couldn't miss a day, but was inspired (so to speak) to think of the Beach Boys due to that summery winter day photo on the Times' front page.
Tune of "Kokomo"
Osetra, beluga, I would take sevruga
And bulk choc'late for grinding, that's what I am finding
I'll sweep what I dropped here, I'm so glad I shopped here
In Park Slope
In the county of Kings
There's a Park Slope co-op store
Where we folks act as one
To make the shopping fun for us all.
If you don't understand
It's where we live to lend a hand
We'll bend this way and that
To help when you can't find your brand
Here in the Co-op Store
This might be generic, even esoteric
But that caviar's squishy and smells kinda fishy
Try lox, Nova Scotia, if your home's not Kosha
(come and get it) at the Co-op Store
If you don't buy it here you'll pay much more
That's what this store is for
The Park Slope Co-op Store
(repeat). Osetra. Beluga, I would take sevruga, etc.
Tune of "Kokomo"
Osetra, beluga, I would take sevruga
And bulk choc'late for grinding, that's what I am finding
I'll sweep what I dropped here, I'm so glad I shopped here
In Park Slope
In the county of Kings
There's a Park Slope co-op store
Where we folks act as one
To make the shopping fun for us all.
If you don't understand
It's where we live to lend a hand
We'll bend this way and that
To help when you can't find your brand
Here in the Co-op Store
This might be generic, even esoteric
But that caviar's squishy and smells kinda fishy
Try lox, Nova Scotia, if your home's not Kosha
(come and get it) at the Co-op Store
If you don't buy it here you'll pay much more
That's what this store is for
The Park Slope Co-op Store
(repeat). Osetra. Beluga, I would take sevruga, etc.
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and we wonder why Donald Trump was elected
President! if one wants to get him re-elected
(God forbid) just make a video of these Park
Slope co-op types discussing each other's "badness " in Ohio and Michigan etc... and he will
be a mortal lock.
President! if one wants to get him re-elected
(God forbid) just make a video of these Park
Slope co-op types discussing each other's "badness " in Ohio and Michigan etc... and he will
be a mortal lock.
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When they see the prices they will change their minds.
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What! No hot chocolate mix.
This would never be allowed to occur in my adopted home of Switzerland.
No Swiss food co-op is complete with hot chocolate mix!!!
This would never be allowed to occur in my adopted home of Switzerland.
No Swiss food co-op is complete with hot chocolate mix!!!
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Yep, that is just how cooperation works.
More folks should try it.
"We all own it!"
More folks should try it.
"We all own it!"
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That may be true.
Still, friends, I think I'll order room service
Still, friends, I think I'll order room service
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I loved it! Some of my best NYC stories have been from the corner market. One cold night in February, I landed inside of the Food Pantry, coughing like a sick kid. A stranger climbed a rickety ladder to retrieve a lone bottle of cough syrup from the top shelf. I ripped off the top, then guzzled it down. I went to say thanks, but the gentleman had already gone. When I got to the register, I found that he had also paid for it. You don’t find that in L.A. !
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