Commissary Archive

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Look it! Look it! Look it!

BUTTERMILK! LOW FAT EVEN! Do you realize I’ve not had access to real, honest-to-God buttermilk in… [looking down & left] 463 DAYS?!?! That’s over a year of NO buttermilk pancakes, NO decent cornbread, NO fried chicken! Ohhh….you just have no idea how good yall have it back home. Buttermilk! Honest to God Buttermilk! AT HUMPHREYS EVEN! Can [...]

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Watermelon Extortionists

[could someone please find me a soap box?] It’s official. Someone…somewhere…is either getting a whopper of a kick-back or a nice percentage cut on the sale of watermelons to the US military. [not that they're actually selling] Exhibit A- the Osan commissary….yesterday. C’mon…you had to know that the Humphrey’s commissary is not that nice looking & definitely [...]

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Price Check

A good amount of the produce at the commissary is flown in for us. But some things aren’t flown in at all. In fact, some things are sourced locally. Like watermelon. Korean watermelon. Smaller, more round – less oblong, about the size of a basketball. All with stickers letting us know this is a locally grown [...]