Back in the day alot of the stores and restaurants used to allow dumpster diving or gave food to people who collected and distributed it to the people in need. Now it seems more important to be fighting for the right to be a potato
Berkeley Bowl is one of the few things I miss about the Bay. One of my favorite memories was overhearing a lady looking for cucumbers. Now there just so happened to be some in the bargain area (woo!) so I let her know. She turns to me with the most condescending look I've ever seen and says 'I only eat organic'. I then let her know that, thankfully, the ones in the bargain were organic. She then turns away and repeats her question to the worker :D Bargain bin though was ridiculous. Could feed an entire commune on $15 a week.
My sister was a cashier at the Union Square Whole Fools in the late naughts and she said there was a lady who made her punch in every sku number because she “didn’t want the lasers contaminating her food.”
check out antimasonic party with john quincy adams! ...thennn 1945's "don't be a sucker" to understand why no one cares about mmmhmmmhmm anymore but definately don't check out west papua for the last fifty fucking years
@@destinydavidson1524 Thanks. Yes, I searched and saw that shortly after my comment, but decided to let it go. And because I love his off-the-tongue, flyby delivery!
@@marymarysmarket3508 already doing that, man, pretty sure none of our asses here are getting by but for the graces of some old people and a government. Out of all the old white dudes to make overlord, could do worse than that one. I mean better would be burn it all down and stuff, but y'know, baby steps because we're a collective set of babies apparently
i worked on the juice bar at whole foods in a upper class area of LA. We would sell 2oz. wheatgrass shots and people kept asking for huge amounts of them at once or trying to buy whole pallets, I wondered out loud to a coworker why, and I was told that WHEATGRASS ENEMAS were the current health trend. Everyone was so obsessed with organic stuff they really were ready to put it up their butts, but when it came to lip fillers, cheek fillers, and fake butts that organic standard went right out the window lol.
If you ever get a chance to eat one or the jam made from them, there is nothing like it, awesome, very much like honey. I had them once, found them wild where I live. They are not as common as they used to be. Victorians all had them in their gardens, but then they fell out of favor. They do grow wild, but only if they get the right conditions. You can find places to order the plants for a garden. They are making a comeback.
🤮 I actually bought a pack of that same brand of "cape gooseberries" at a regular Winn Dixie grocery store when I was down in Florida in April of this year. They are absolutely awful! Turns out they are tropical, and they are related to tomatoes. They taste like a ridiculously sour, unripe tomato, NOT a berry! There's zero sweetness to those "berries"! I made the mistake of assuming they were related to the fruit from the "other" gooseberries in the currant family, which I grew at my house on a whim way back in 2004. The REAL gooseberries are sweet and pleasant tasting.
@@HighlanderNorth1 When they're properly ripe the sweetness is stronger than the tartness. I live in South Africa though so maybe Cape gooseberries are only good when grown in the Cape, lol. Apparently the English kind is nicer but I've never tried
@@jcrnda Lol. We don't live in a free country. Maybe freeish. A free country or free society is and has always been extremely rare. We have great privileges compared to many countries. The only free people on this earth don't need to pay taxes on the property that they own and still live off the land in tribes.
That ain't no shit. I live someplace where we get two kinds of melons and Meyer lemons are exotic. I went a little bit nuts with the rice selection. I'd put up with someone trying to talk down to me for a chance to shop for my fruits and vegetables in a place like that.
I’ll be honest, it’s kinda interesting to have you do a brief bit of botanizing down the grocery isle. Seriously. It’s nice to get a bit of botanical background on our fruit and veg. But the cultural anthropology is a nice touch too.
Mint grows on whatever dirt you put it on. It even loves living next to my sunflowers and Jerusalem artichokes. Mint doesn't give a f. But a plant that even gives less of a f is it's cousin catnip and lemon balm. @@machoman5472
Too bad people don't actually reason themselves into their own views, since they can't reason themselves out when they are wrong. Maybe one of these idiots will see the light, but that would take reasoning.
I had a neighbor with a habit of driving a two hour, round trip, to visit this store. One of his complaints was the avoidable things people should do to avoid global warming.
@@oliviacarolinanogueira7769 IMHO you're on the right path. Now research SOLAR CYCLES and global climate history...you will be closer to the truth/facts of the matter...climate is not caused nor changed by us at this juncture in time. Solar and Volcanic activity are the greatest causes. The records reveal that Solar activity is the greatest cause of climate changes. Volcano ash clouds can block the sun, emit HUGE volumes of C02 and noxious gas content, under sea volcanoes change/affect sea current, temperature and weather patterns too....and then there is the PERMAFROST that belches billions of tons of METHANE into the atmosphere each year! Now that is a lot to consider!!!! But NOOOOO...the willfully ignorant listen to Greta the goof attack on oil....cuz she knows stuff! ROFL (they use children because they are protected from rebuke) Like asshats use children as shields in war.
Talking about that sage bundle: "fetishizing" is absolutely the word to use. Sacred, traditional tools ignorantly abused with little regard for any reasonings.
@@nilbog972 It can get kind of worth taking issue with imo when the fetishism causes over harvesting of traditional wild medicine plants like has happened with white sage.
@@nilbog972 Nilbog Kaila said what I was thinking. The problem isn't that they're doing it, or that they're doing it "wrong", it's that the insane demand outstrips proper gathering and leads to widespread unsustainable and improper farming techniques. I will never defend ignorant New Age bullshit. If you want to engage in traditional medicines, at least make an effort to understand them traditionally. I will stand by that position until the bitter end. Even with Western medicine - understand where it came from and what it does. There is no excuse for ignorance in 2020.
Lefties are anxious cus their lifestyle rules change all the time and you just don’t know what’s stable. Plus, many are it people, anti social types, and can’t flow with fun conversations.
@@karamlevi Joey is poking fun at people who are aesthetically left. People like that tend to be wary about the image they project because their primary focus is puffing themselves up while lording their "moral superiority" over others. Which, ironically, is exactly what you're doing in your comment. This video is pretty good. It talks about a lot of chronic societal issues that the current powers are either too incompetent to deal with, unable to deal with, or outright refuse to deal with but from (what sounds like) a comedic, down-to-earth, pessimistic, left-leaning perspective. And the shoppers were "anxious" because some weird guy is walking around with a camera while admiring fungi and talking about shoving herbs and pills up his ass. lmao
8:35 "If socialized medecine ever did become a thing, they'll put all the hippie snake oil guys out of business" Frenchman here ; I don't think you were being ironic on this one : No it won't. Herbalism, homeopathy and other snake oils won't be vanquished by socialized healthcare. Boiron is a French company, whose huge influence in France even managed to get them many of their products refunded by the socialized medecine program. Lack of access to proper treatment and medical expertise, however, will increase pseudo-medical sales and influence.
I think you're missing the point here. As a fellow European living in a country with a social healthcare system, yes, of course we have these BS homeopathic stores and whatnot, but they are not government subsidized or anything. Where I live you can get your necessary medical subscriptions and healthcare entirely for free (of course, we pay for it through taxes, but I'm more than happy to do so). If you want to spend your own hard-earned money on essential oils you can, but the government won't be paying for it. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot more folks buying BS folkloric treatments in the US since they're probably cheaper compared to actually seeing a doctor there.
Could you imagine your just trying to get some mushrooms and get back to your house and avoid a global pandemic and you hear this Chicago guy going talking about fiddleheads and goin "on a goddamn mycology course here" and "we got an endless bounty of fungi" I'd be laughing pretty hard
Accents evolve and adapt to their environment. Some aspects are vestigial, some useful to the current environment, others, used to rag on Berkeley-ites.
@@lysergic_visions3203 He sounds like the Chicago Bears superfans that used to be a skit on SNL. He hams up the accent amazingly for our enjoyment here. But yea this amazing dude is indeed from Chicago.
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
Sadly, the hippie snake oil business is doing extremely well in countries WITH socialised health care. The popularity of homeopathy in France and Germany is beyond understanding. Irrationality is just too universal ;)
This statement just shows that like a lot of people, you do not know what you are talking about. 1 Phytotherapy and Homeopathy are VERY different things. Phytotherapy is the use of plants for medicine. While fraught with problems linked with posology (concentration of active ingredient varies widely with plant variety, origin and even season), it has its own merits. Homeopathy is a completely fraudulent "medicine", based on long-debunked humbug. (the 4 humours, the likes cure likes, and the so-called "memory of water"). 2. Misunderstanding of the chemistry: Salicylic acid does have some use in medicine, for its corrosive properties (treatment of skin disorders) but , despite so called "common knowledge", it does nothing to treat pain and fever. However, it near guarantees digestive issues that could be fatal... Acetyl-salicylic acid, on the other hand, is the one found in aspirin. Yes, it is synthesized from salicylic acid and/or salicine, but it is an entirely different substance, and the only one that has any effect for fever and pain, and yet, it has still rather unpleasant side effect and high risk of toxicity. It is completely synthetic and man-made. The story about willow-bark being the same as aspirin is the perfect example of New-Age nonsense mostly based on bad reading/understanding of mistaken "traditional" medicine (you know, the same one that bled people for anything because of humor theory) and wishful thinking that sadly made its way into common culture.
@@stonecodfish2365have you been watching some Tim Minchin? He has a bit called Storm, where he says this exact thing in a voice snarky enough to rival our favourite botanist.
I think its not too bad in Denmark. Sure, we got heath freaks, but they usually have their own little specialized store, so the rest of us can be left alone. Also, i think the important difference between snake oil believers in countries with social healthcare and without, is that people over here have a choise. They choose to be idiots and believe in this stuff, but they have the option to go see a doctor if they want to, without putting their unborn grandchildren in debt. Many in the US don't get to choose bc health care is so expensive, their only option is snake oil and hope for the best. Also also, the European rules for what can be sold over the counter, and what you are able to advertise as being beneficial or healthy, or a cure for something are waaaayyyy stricter than the rules in the US. Melatonin for example, you can't get that in Denmark without a prescription from your doctor, who has done blood tests and tried to figure out what might be wrong. You also can't say that omega3 oil is good for the heart on the package of some plant based cooking oil.
I thought that section was half true roasting. Meaning, detoxing isn't real. Alkalized water isn't real. But nutrients and phytonutrients are. CBD heals. Fish oil cures acne. Nutrients are good
Never in my life have I seen a grocery store or even outdoor market so STACKED with not one but multiple varieties of each fruit and vegetables. And even edible flowers? I have always grown those but cant give them away. A massive irony of such a stacked store, is that each and every product has both a large environmental cost and almost always relies on gross human inequality to even exist. Take a product as simple as cashews for example. In the developed first world we think nothing of eating fistfuls of them and whole bowlfuls may be thrown away if leftover at a party or bar. But each cashew comes embedded in a fruit that is irritating and requires great skill to cut open to harvest the cashew. So thousands of women who probably never had the opportunity to go to school endure day after day of monotonous slave like labour extracting cashews for people in a far off land. There is a story like this for almost every product in a grocery store.
I have to say I'm torn. On one side, as a food lover and cook I am totally loving the variety, availability, and selection of some pretty awesome ingredients. On the other, I am disgusted by the fact that 70% of that produce it's either completely out of season (aka farmed somewhere in a greenhouse) or from the other side of the world. Why would you have 5 kinds of pineapple in a supermarket? why 20 different mushrooms? I mean, variety is great but I think in the US people will never learn that too much of anything is - for the most part - BAD.
Over stimulation leads to under amusement. Look at UA-cam, now offering UA-cam shorts. "If I cant get be highly gratified very quickly I'll find somewhere else to go." There is so much selection in the US no one appreciates anything. Rather than learning to like something, find something new to like. Endless selection of unhappiness...
It does seem a little overly decadent huh? (that bar full of olives was wild) Some of it reminds me of a large International market nearby, but with much huger piles of everything. But my area probably doesn't have the same kind of population density as Berkley. I wouldn't call my CAM a "woke grocery store", its just where everyone in the East Asian, Indian, and SEA communities have to go for the stuff they need to make their food, cause nowhere else carries alot of that stuff.
I agree, it is too much produce, I’m sure they waste a lot too. But I am amazed by the selection, I’ve never seen anything like that before and I’m 40 and have lived my whole life in America. But then again I’ve lived in poorer states that are more down to earth
Oh its known, especially for us country folk. Less is usually better, but God dang it that was an impressive variety of ingredients to cook with. Oh well ill just garden what I like to eat.
@@000scubasteve Until a homeless person gets sick eating some produce that's gone bad and the food pantry is forced to shut down because of that, which is literally the reason food pantries already refuse old grocery produce.
I’m a plant science major in college currently and let me say, you are the only person on youtube i thoroughly enjoy watching when it comes to combining educational content and entertainment. I just found your channel last night while trying to go to bed and i found myself awake until 4 am with 2 computer screens with one watching your videos and the other on wikipedia absolutely dumbfounded how so many plant genera are in the same family. I’m only a sophomore starting this fall, so you gotta keep pumping out content and pushing snakes out the road ✊🏻
Honestly, welcome to the roller coaster of this channel. It's hard as hell to explain to anyone, but like a good book you can't stop once you start. The pontification and monologues, the endless exposition about the beauty of nature. The stream of Latin. It's a wild ride. Welcome.
I think the "forbidden rice" may be black rice. I find it at the Vietnamese grocery store near my house, it used to be one of those things that only the Emperor was allowed to eat. It makes the water you boil it in turn purple.
@@-vaniii- rich do-nothing liberals Have the power to cancel him - the media and celebrity types. The average lefty and righty have no power beyond making comments on Twitter and UA-cam. We mean nothing in the struggle for power.
@@-vaniii- Sounds like Bernie with his vacation homes he bought being a career parasite. Wait, I must use the politically correct term for parasite, politician.
@@hattorihanzo2275 he made a majority of his fortune by writing. And if you have a problem with corrupt politicians or 'parasites' you should probably support him.
@@trackerbuckmann1627 yes, from a parasite Toxoplasma gondii that's infected their brain: much like the modern 'woke' virus, it weakens the faculties to the point of the Predator has easy access to devouring the prey and the cycle starts again
@@LDuke-pc7kq 1st define woke?....don't use words you don't understand...... If anyone has toxoplasmosis it's that dirty pus5y at home ya let lick your forehead..... but whatever duke does in his dog house.....is your own pus5y paradise of mind melting kult (gondii/ ) control....
The “hippy snake oil section” is a perfect name for that stuff. I’m not gonna lie, I have chronic pain and have to keep myself from impulsively trying that stuff. You aren’t wrong, its success is a reflection of our crap healthcare. As someone who came from a small rural town I was excited that people knew what intersectionality was, then deeply disappointed by how people still acted. Love your stuff!
So true. Especially since doctors are afraid of prescribing pain meds because they'll be investigated. I'm honestly considering becoming a junkie so the government will buy my pain meds for me.
Awww, The Berkeley Bowl! The only place I kept shopping at even after they fired me. Lol. The produce section was amazing... the daily sexual harassment from coworkers... not so much.
So you were sexually harassed, then fired, and still shopped there? This is why California is considered the most mentally unstable state of all 50....
I’m only a third of the way through this. 😂 I am stopping now and watching the rest later, after some nice Chamomile tea. If I don’t, I will be going to the hospital due to hyperventilating from laughter.
I worked in the snake old department of health food store for over a decade and I’ve got to say this was the most inspired and honest video I’ve ever seen. Bravo Joey, bravo.
As some one who works retail, this store is well managed. I tried so hard to find a flaw. Their orderly and cleanliness are many magnitudes above my store. A Walmart in the less savvy side of town.
I absolutely love this store. It’s called Berkeley Bowl, why Bowl I don’t know. Maybe A BOWL of Berkeley, lol. They only have two of them in Berkeley. It’s always well organized and very clean, even the plants are nice!
I didn’t see the date stamp on this and thought “this is about right for the current times” regarding the social commentary.…it’s like my dude here was predicting the future! Huge fan of your content
Got to admit, I flinched at "trans POC" and wondered if this was going to go all red pill. Relieved to see it's at the expense of the token-touting performative neo-woke types. Sorry I doubted you CPBBD.
Tbh I'm 2:34 in and I'm still in a bit of a fright about it possibly going red pill... I'm probably wrong though. Can you give me like a marker to strive towards for when it gets better so I can stick it out Also what sort of neo woke types are we talking about? sort of like the pop feminists of BuzzFeed/Huffington Post/et al? EDIT at 3:42: ohhhh, its like the weird slapfights on democratic twitter I've been seeing recently about how one person's candidate is better than the others, isnt it
@@melanieortiz712 gtfo of here. Go read up on your history. There was a long history between the Native Americans and colonists. Some good some bad. This garbage you radicals peddle about occupation is nonsense. Plenty of natives murdered innocent colonists just as colonist murdered innocent natives. And just because colonists had superior technology and came out on top doesn’t make them the villains of the story. This isn’t an 8th grade playground, it doesn’t matter who was here first. Everyone gets along fine now anyway, save for you bitter losers. You wouldn’t even be here moaning like a banshee on this comment thread without that “illegal occupation”. Lol. Illegal. Don’t even get me started on that. Illegal by what law? The law of your fee fees? You people are dangerous to the minds of the ignorant.
Fiddleheads are DELICIOUS. Sauté them with some butter, yummmm. They're a great foraging staple in the spring here in Vermont. Ostrich ferns (Matteucia struthiopterus) are typically the kind that have edible fiddleheads before they unfurl. Edit: Arnica --- I will forever hear and read it as Amica cream from the Heard/Depp trial.
I was laughing so hard I had to leave the room so I didn't wake my husband up. Freaking dying man, this was so perfect. You forgot to get your celery juice in a PLASTIC cup, but buy the "reusable" $10 straw because the environment bro 🤣.
12:31 "isn't that what the rednecks say? California's full of fruit and nuts? I'm fine with that, better that than people who don't believe in evolution" lmao as one of those Californian fruits, I love this. totally agree!
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I hate to say it, but this is why I'm glad to be one of the "lucky" members of that demographic who doesn't stick out of a crowd like a sore thumb... I don't make a good enough token...
I couldn’t help noticing that the produce section was busy but orderly while there wasn’t a single Berkeleyite in the herbals and supplements - only our intrepid cynic. But thank you for the tour and commentary. You’re dependably informative and entertaining.
I’ve never seen this guy before and have 0 idea what his channel is about and didn’t know what to expect from this video but idk if it’s that i’m getting tired at nearly midnight or his voice is just calming since it is an ideal blend of ‘useful information to capture interest’ and ‘inane comments that can be forgotten immediately and are effectively white noise’
You're just in there, grocery shoppin' and this chicago guy comes in and without even talking to you makes you feel like a complete a-hole for buying a head of lettuce from there lmfao this was great.
I find turmeric pills to be hilarious. Why not just buy the spice, along with a few others, from the middle eastern section of the supermarket and, for half the price, make yourself a delicious curry instead? You get to eat great food, get whatever benefits the stuff supposedly has, and shit, even if it doesn't actually work - you still had curry! It's still a win.
"Now if you look to ya right, you can plainly see the most disgusting memorial to human arrogance that ever existed... Phoenix, Arizona... in fact, it's to tha left too."
That, along with "intersectional PhD's" and "trans POC's," plus his extensive knowledge of botanical terminology, makes me suspect that our hero may himself be a fugitive from academia!
you know i was in line at the store behind a lady who forgot to "purchase " a .05 cents plastic bag the other day and she was stuck there on the counter with a pile of goods she could not possibly carry to the car without a bag. well the clerk informed her that he could not sell her a plastic bag because the system only allows there sale as part of a transaction. she did not get mad she just tried to reason with the clerk... his response was helplessness at the mercy of the"system" i bought her a bag as part of my transaction. this is f...... ridiculous. Still no redemption taxes on excessive bottling or packaging or on amazon, or mail order ship me my whole lazy dinner in a box packing, or your takeout from door dash last night..............but a lady cannot carry her groceries to the car because it uses a bag? As a society were are our priorities? Can we get real? i love sea turtles birds and fish and have no desire grow bigger plasticizer induced breasts. but if we continue as a society to not address the bigger challenges facing us and just dilly-dally around with "achievable bs goals" that blow smoke up our a.. things will continue to get uglier fast. achievable goals are what got us in this mess we need to rise higher than that. This video is not "off topic" its is right on topic people listen to what the guy is really saying, all his videos are social commentary. just because it hits closer to home.......we are all hypocrites, first step in the 12 step program= self awareness Thank you
The computer has been presented to the world world has something which is meant to be a solution and an all round blessing; it just goes to show that a huge number of programmes written for some uses have the opposite effect.
if you remember to take your reusable bag with you when you go shopping , you never have this problem. It's not too hard to do, it becomes second nature.....glad Wales banned free bags many years ago, it seems odd to even think of buying a bag as I instinctively take in the shopping bag when I go to the shop..
@@jm-ze3sf Of coarse, But life is not always pre planned. Also now at least temporarily there is the virus.... and then there is a debate floating around about how much resources reusable bags use versus single use, bags. The theory is you need 600 uses out of each heavy duty bag to equal the life span of raw material that goes into disposables ....I honestly am skeptical of this idea but have not researched it fully yet. It does seem overly convenient to plastic industry goals.
So when do you launch the 'Joey's Milkweed Miracle Cure-All'? Grown from sustainable organic milkweed - may as well bring in some monarch conservation on the sly. Safe for human consumption? Who knows!
Plant up some Green Onion bulbs next time you get green onions or chives or whatever at the grocery store, and you'll never run out of green onions haha. Plus, after three seasons or so, I think the bulbs grow into full size "storage onions" you can split off to eat or replant for even more onions lol. I've only planted the bulbs, so I've not had mine growing long enough to see what they do in the long term, but that's what I've read :D
in my work experience it seems like the amount of waste scales up with the amount of choices people can select from. more variety = more thrown out shit
I mean, out of all the stuff, I hear cranberry juice does help against the sort of mild UTIs that women get from sitting on cold. Maybe an overkill to blast your gut with antibiotics on the first day of discomfort.
That was fucking hilarious! As a woke person with a PhD, it's absolutely true that I enjoy putting things in my ass. That aside, that store is really impressive, I wonder the quantity of food they just throw out. It seems just hubristic the mountains of food there are.
Tony you would love Iron Mtn. MI. Due to the Italians who came to work in the mines here, there's an Italian deli, and the locally owned stores carry six to eight varieties of Italian sausages, meats, cheeses, and pastas. The local bakery sells cannoli's and Italian bread. There are more then enough😁pizza parlors, and bars sell pizza by the slice. Italian fest is in the summer, and German fest in the fall. It's a cornucopia of ethnic cuisine.😄
As much as I adore your botany videos, this is one of my favorites! The satire and shade was so strong, I can hardly believe it wasn't scripted, phenominal.
It's a nice town, with great food, museums, symphony and Greek Theater concerts, and wonderful playgrounds for the kids. I have lived here over 40 years and it's a mellow town, usually. If there's a riot, it's probably out-of-towners who come here to start trouble. I park my car on the street and it has never been broken into. The weather is nice, too. 😊
Wow! That is an incredibly well stocked shop! I’ve not seen anything quite so well stocked in the UK, maybe in Europe but not here. I’m really enjoying your content, it’s presented in a refreshingly different way the the lectures at Uni and is really helping things stick. Thank you.
Is this the co-op? I went there once in the late 80s. I worked on a construction crew in Berkeley with my cousin, who had a PhD (in a subject unrelated to building). The lead carpenter and the contractor also had PhDs, and there were a couple of guys with master’s degrees. I was the least educated guy with a mere (and brand new) bachelor’s degree.
that guy staring during "condescendingly lectured by a college student with a septum ring who can explain to you how to think and behave and police your language" looool crying 💀
I always make my tea at home because usually the bottled teas have citric acid or something in them that makes them taste weird and I just prefer the pure taste of tea Also it’s definitely cheaper lol Also I used to work at a store kind of like this in the health and beauty department and it blew my mind how many different products had coconut oil and/or activated charcoal in it, and most of them you’re just like “why though?” You’d think they’re like miracle elixirs or something but they’re really not lol
They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world.
Nah it's fine. The 00s were a fuckin disaster. Participation awards, anti bullying, grade curves, no child left behind. People think they're special just cos they exist. None of you, or I, or anyone from president dingus right down to alleyway Johnson matter. Expendable. Every last one. People used to know that and act accordingly, now they fuckin get hospitalized when someone's mean or proves the dumb shit they say makes no sense. Let's get back to industry and relax some safety laws. That'll whip em back into shape.
"No one has ever drank 8 fizzy waters and got a dwi or discharged a firearm at their neighbor"
Is that a challenge?
They totally make alcoholic fizz water now for like drunken soccer moms and what the shit
Obviously he hasn't heard about the man who attacked the clerk over a straw...crazy people drink soda too...
Maybe? Just don’t drink Waterloo it tastes like candy took a shit
Do it! But remember to delete your comment first, and to call the media, and blame the fizzy water, you didnt know it could cause violence.
@@gateauxq4604 lol I thought it was gross very gross
I used to work there. Got fired for eating out of the garbage. Good times
That sounds about right! they Sure are eco... Ohh wait nope
Based
Paid below minimum wage?
Your cat avatar only makes your comment funnier. Lol. 🐱🐾😻🧶🗑️🥪🥟🍔
@@haseo8244 u mean liberals?
"Nobodys ever drank 8 fizzy waters and discharge a firearm at a neighbor..." wind me up and watch me go. Challenge accepted.
Isn't that what whiteclaw is for?
There’s something innately hysterical about the people just shopping and looking at him anxiously as this guy preforms a running commentary.
@Cynthia May it’s just your ass
@@briannelson3830 no it's smug.
Back in the day alot of the stores and restaurants used to allow dumpster diving or gave food to people who collected and distributed it to the people in need. Now it seems more important to be fighting for the right to be a potato
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@@83delgado oh man, DOUBLE ass
I like to imagine that every time the video cuts out it's you getting kicked out of the store, then you go right back in and start filming again.
@Cynthia May LOL
@@bellebonebag8096 Have you ever asked yourself why upsetting others bring you pleasure?
@@bipslone8880 No. Why?
I'm going to pretend this is what really happened. Maybe he waited thirty seconds before turning around.
😂😂😂
Berkeley Bowl is one of the few things I miss about the Bay. One of my favorite memories was overhearing a lady looking for cucumbers. Now there just so happened to be some in the bargain area (woo!) so I let her know. She turns to me with the most condescending look I've ever seen and says 'I only eat organic'. I then let her know that, thankfully, the ones in the bargain were organic. She then turns away and repeats her question to the worker :D Bargain bin though was ridiculous. Could feed an entire commune on $15 a week.
You obviously insulted her when you said bargain.
Organic cucumbers, as opposed to the silicon based cucumbers lmao
Noice
I thought ladies wanted cucumbers anyway they could get them .
My sister was a cashier at the Union Square Whole Fools in the late naughts and she said there was a lady who made her punch in every sku number because she “didn’t want the lasers contaminating her food.”
“. . . a country where you get a bunch of mice to vote for cats . . . “. Ah! The American Story! Poetic brilliance, not soon forgotten!
Check out Mouseland by Tommy Douglas!
check out antimasonic party with john quincy adams!
...thennn 1945's "don't be a sucker" to understand why no one cares about mmmhmmmhmm anymore
but definately don't check out west papua for the last fifty fucking years
@@destinydavidson1524 Thanks. Yes, I searched and saw that shortly after my comment, but decided to let it go. And because I love his off-the-tongue, flyby delivery!
“...and that’s why snake oil sells” 😳
Destiny Davidson the greatest Canadian right there
“And the best part is, you’re gonna be grocery shopping next to people that got PhDs, and know what the word intersectionality means” lmao
Vote Bernie baby
half the guests on Democracy Now shop at Berkeley Bowl
@@CORRECT05 yay...lets all be slaves
I googled it, so now I know what intersectionality means. Do you know what gobbledygook means?
@@marymarysmarket3508 already doing that, man, pretty sure none of our asses here are getting by but for the graces of some old people and a government. Out of all the old white dudes to make overlord, could do worse than that one. I mean better would be burn it all down and stuff, but y'know, baby steps because we're a collective set of babies apparently
i worked on the juice bar at whole foods in a upper class area of LA. We would sell 2oz. wheatgrass shots and people kept asking for huge amounts of them at once or trying to buy whole pallets, I wondered out loud to a coworker why, and I was told that WHEATGRASS ENEMAS were the current health trend. Everyone was so obsessed with organic stuff they really were ready to put it up their butts, but when it came to lip fillers, cheek fillers, and fake butts that organic standard went right out the window lol.
i mean technically fake butts are organic if they’re made from your own grafted fat lol
I'm not sure I follow this? If they wanted a pallet of 2oz shots, wouldn't they just buy... for example...100 lbs of it, instead of 2oz cups?
"I dunno what the fuck a gooseberry is but that's a physalis"
Bro i love you
He’s fast, but so far I got He’s experienced getting kicked in the balls and putting things up ass😂
If you ever get a chance to eat one or the jam made from them, there is nothing like it, awesome, very much like honey. I had them once, found them wild where I live. They are not as common as they used to be. Victorians all had them in their gardens, but then they fell out of favor. They do grow wild, but only if they get the right conditions. You can find places to order the plants for a garden. They are making a comeback.
🤮 I actually bought a pack of that same brand of "cape gooseberries" at a regular Winn Dixie grocery store when I was down in Florida in April of this year. They are absolutely awful! Turns out they are tropical, and they are related to tomatoes. They taste like a ridiculously sour, unripe tomato, NOT a berry! There's zero sweetness to those "berries"!
I made the mistake of assuming they were related to the fruit from the "other" gooseberries in the currant family, which I grew at my house on a whim way back in 2004. The REAL gooseberries are sweet and pleasant tasting.
@@HighlanderNorth1 classic nightshades, expect a sweet fruit, get a bland tomato 🤷🏼
@@HighlanderNorth1 When they're properly ripe the sweetness is stronger than the tartness. I live in South Africa though so maybe Cape gooseberries are only good when grown in the Cape, lol. Apparently the English kind is nicer but I've never tried
I love how you absolutely don't give a shit about the shoppers. Quality content
That's a free country, at least for now!
@@jcrnda Lol. We don't live in a free country. Maybe freeish. A free country or free society is and has always been extremely rare. We have great privileges compared to many countries. The only free people on this earth don't need to pay taxes on the property that they own and still live off the land in tribes.
He's treating them all like NPC's
@@Antsylum Everyone is an NPC to oneself
Heees one. I want to thank Russia for providing santuary to Brittney for at least 9.5 years. Thank u Putin. We are gratful
This is one of those "Bring Your Own Ass" stores.
I love the idea that several months after you chuckled at the clever word play, UA-cam sends a notification “one more persons got it”😂
Wtf are you doing here?
thank you for existing. your comments are almost as good as your videos. 💖
Lmaooo
Dang. I do be leaving them at home sometimes. Unintentionally, of course.
That mushroom section was seriously impressive. Wish I could find a store like that
You got any H-Marts or Central Markets nearby?
Lionsmane is supposed to taste good and be healthy, mushrooms must rot damn fast tho, shouldnt they try drying some out?
That ain't no shit. I live someplace where we get two kinds of melons and Meyer lemons are exotic. I went a little bit nuts with the rice selection. I'd put up with someone trying to talk down to me for a chance to shop for my fruits and vegetables in a place like that.
@@mimszanadunstedt441 worst case scenario invest in a home dehydrator or freeze dryer and DIY
Same. I’d love to try fiddleheads too.
I’ll be honest, it’s kinda interesting to have you do a brief bit of botanizing down the grocery isle. Seriously. It’s nice to get a bit of botanical background on our fruit and veg. But the cultural anthropology is a nice touch too.
Botanical background shut up you complete idiot
Jeez 12 dollars for a bundle of mint? My mint took over an entire raised bed with zero effort for free. I always have enough for mojitos.
How much is the land worth that allows you to grow mint? It's not just labor.
Mint grows on whatever dirt you put it on. It even loves living next to my sunflowers and Jerusalem artichokes. Mint doesn't give a f. But a plant that even gives less of a f is it's cousin catnip and lemon balm. @@machoman5472
This store is carrying a lot of suppositories.
Only the best posi vibes
Suppository repository nice
Anything is a suppository if you're not a coward
@@rowanheyd1200 shit. 🤣
Everything is a suppository if you try hard enough
This is the most passive-aggressive description I've ever read, S-tier
more passive aggressive than "have a nice day go fuck yourself" ? haha
Seemed pretty straight on aggressive to me. Except for those that don't understand satire.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt this is the internet, nobody understands satire
@@nativechatter999 also people often don't know what passive aggressive means.
Too bad people don't actually reason themselves into their own views, since they can't reason themselves out when they are wrong. Maybe one of these idiots will see the light, but that would take reasoning.
I had a neighbor with a habit of driving a two hour, round trip, to visit this store.
One of his complaints was the avoidable things people should do to avoid global warming.
🤣🤣
Lmfao.
@@suzz1776
Hey, KEN, someone besides me, thinks your
Hippie Hype might be a hypocritic horror.
driving doesn't do shit about global warming
companies do.
@@oliviacarolinanogueira7769 IMHO you're on the right path. Now research SOLAR CYCLES and global climate history...you will be closer to the truth/facts of the matter...climate is not caused nor changed by us at this juncture in time.
Solar and Volcanic activity are the greatest causes.
The records reveal that Solar activity is the greatest cause of climate changes.
Volcano ash clouds can block the sun, emit HUGE volumes of C02 and noxious gas content, under sea volcanoes change/affect sea current, temperature and weather patterns too....and then there is the PERMAFROST that belches billions of tons of METHANE into the atmosphere each year!
Now that is a lot to consider!!!!
But NOOOOO...the willfully ignorant listen to Greta the goof attack on oil....cuz she knows stuff! ROFL
(they use children because they are protected from rebuke) Like asshats use children as shields in war.
Talking about that sage bundle: "fetishizing" is absolutely the word to use. Sacred, traditional tools ignorantly abused with little regard for any reasonings.
Amen to that. It’s even worse with the endangered palo santo.
@@nilbog972 It can get kind of worth taking issue with imo when the fetishism causes over harvesting of traditional wild medicine plants like has happened with white sage.
@@nilbog972 there are poeple who take that shit seriously and these are not those poeple
@@nilbog972 Nilbog Kaila said what I was thinking. The problem isn't that they're doing it, or that they're doing it "wrong", it's that the insane demand outstrips proper gathering and leads to widespread unsustainable and improper farming techniques.
I will never defend ignorant New Age bullshit. If you want to engage in traditional medicines, at least make an effort to understand them traditionally. I will stand by that position until the bitter end. Even with Western medicine - understand where it came from and what it does. There is no excuse for ignorance in 2020.
*”reasoning”*
Those shoppers were looking anxious, there's this guy walking around talking about putting groceries in his ass .. brilliant.
LOL, Red Pill, you of all people should know he was referring to suppositories
Lefties are anxious cus their lifestyle rules change all the time and you just don’t know what’s stable.
Plus, many are it people, anti social types, and can’t flow with fun conversations.
He had an entourage of housewives when he toured the zucchini section. 😎
@@karamlevi Stable? Like donnie-the-ex-prasident?
@@karamlevi Joey is poking fun at people who are aesthetically left. People like that tend to be wary about the image they project because their primary focus is puffing themselves up while lording their "moral superiority" over others. Which, ironically, is exactly what you're doing in your comment.
This video is pretty good. It talks about a lot of chronic societal issues that the current powers are either too incompetent to deal with, unable to deal with, or outright refuse to deal with but from (what sounds like) a comedic, down-to-earth, pessimistic, left-leaning perspective.
And the shoppers were "anxious" because some weird guy is walking around with a camera while admiring fungi and talking about shoving herbs and pills up his ass. lmao
8:35 "If socialized medecine ever did become a thing, they'll put all the hippie snake oil guys out of business"
Frenchman here ; I don't think you were being ironic on this one : No it won't.
Herbalism, homeopathy and other snake oils won't be vanquished by socialized healthcare.
Boiron is a French company, whose huge influence in France even managed to get them many of their products refunded by the socialized medecine program.
Lack of access to proper treatment and medical expertise, however, will increase pseudo-medical sales and influence.
Okay but who asked?
@@oddhate your mom
Then socialized healthcare shouldn't fund those. EZ
I think you're missing the point here. As a fellow European living in a country with a social healthcare system, yes, of course we have these BS homeopathic stores and whatnot, but they are not government subsidized or anything. Where I live you can get your necessary medical subscriptions and healthcare entirely for free (of course, we pay for it through taxes, but I'm more than happy to do so). If you want to spend your own hard-earned money on essential oils you can, but the government won't be paying for it.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot more folks buying BS folkloric treatments in the US since they're probably cheaper compared to actually seeing a doctor there.
@@oddhate it's a UA-cam video nobody needs to ask, dumbfuck
"Better this than where they don't believe in evolution"
"This is where they tackle the homeless"
*SUBBED*
@Ka Pow big sad
I would never tackle a homeless person. They are dirty, might have needles to poke you, and maybe diseases too. Nope
@Ka Pow you don't know me. Don't judge my character based on one youtube comment.
@@Thr0mamay so fragile
Evolution is a lie.
Could you imagine your just trying to get some mushrooms and get back to your house and avoid a global pandemic and you hear this Chicago guy going talking about fiddleheads and goin "on a goddamn mycology course here" and "we got an endless bounty of fungi" I'd be laughing pretty hard
As a Chicago native I really thought he was an east coaster lol
Accents evolve and adapt to their environment. Some aspects are vestigial, some useful to the current environment, others, used to rag on Berkeley-ites.
fun-guy
Jackie Radley I’m From New England & He Kinda Sounds Like He’s From Boston or New York To Me 😂
@@lysergic_visions3203 He sounds like the Chicago Bears superfans that used to be a skit on SNL. He hams up the accent amazingly for our enjoyment here. But yea this amazing dude is indeed from Chicago.
This is not the video I was expecting, but it's the one I didn't know I needed. This is the best goddamn review of a grocery store I've ever seen.
Hands down #1 review video!
So much plastic. That's how you know you're saving the environment with your consumption - it's all plastic wrapped.
Little clown fish.....Wait till you see the pfa's in ur blood...... don't worry your not going be around to care......thus ur additude currently....
This is a richer roast than any comic on the market, sprinkled with actual botany. Best channel.
I'm cracking up knowing that some random grocery store shopper told Tony what a fiddlehead is.
"a country where you get a bunch of rodents voting for cats" pure gold pure genius.
I'm sure if you have an IQ of 75 his comedy is pretty highbrow for you.
This isn't comedy, it's shit on the bottom of my shoe that I scrape off.
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
That's like 1920's newspaper comic level humor...
for detox i like using my kidneys try it sometimes
I can borrow your kidneys? Hey, thanks! 😃
Pfft u lie, how can ur kidneys cleanse without essential oils
You might want to give them something to cleanse with. Try water. Maybe something really caffinated if you're in a hurry.
I use my liver, too.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory Some good 'ol methamphetamine usually push things right on through
Sadly, the hippie snake oil business is doing extremely well in countries WITH socialised health care. The popularity of homeopathy in France and Germany is beyond understanding. Irrationality is just too universal ;)
This statement just shows that like a lot of people, you do not know what you are talking about.
1 Phytotherapy and Homeopathy are VERY different things.
Phytotherapy is the use of plants for medicine. While fraught with problems linked with posology (concentration of active ingredient varies widely with plant variety, origin and even season), it has its own merits.
Homeopathy is a completely fraudulent "medicine", based on long-debunked humbug. (the 4 humours, the likes cure likes, and the so-called "memory of water").
2. Misunderstanding of the chemistry:
Salicylic acid does have some use in medicine, for its corrosive properties (treatment of skin disorders) but , despite so called "common knowledge", it does nothing to treat pain and fever. However, it near guarantees digestive issues that could be fatal...
Acetyl-salicylic acid, on the other hand, is the one found in aspirin. Yes, it is synthesized from salicylic acid and/or salicine, but it is an entirely different substance, and the only one that has any effect for fever and pain, and yet, it has still rather unpleasant side effect and high risk of toxicity. It is completely synthetic and man-made.
The story about willow-bark being the same as aspirin is the perfect example of New-Age nonsense mostly based on bad reading/understanding of mistaken "traditional" medicine (you know, the same one that bled people for anything because of humor theory) and wishful thinking that sadly made its way into common culture.
@@stonecodfish2365 homeopathy makes less sense than eating willow bark for aspirin
@@stonecodfish2365have you been watching some Tim Minchin? He has a bit called Storm, where he says this exact thing in a voice snarky enough to rival our favourite botanist.
I think its not too bad in Denmark. Sure, we got heath freaks, but they usually have their own little specialized store, so the rest of us can be left alone.
Also, i think the important difference between snake oil believers in countries with social healthcare and without, is that people over here have a choise. They choose to be idiots and believe in this stuff, but they have the option to go see a doctor if they want to, without putting their unborn grandchildren in debt.
Many in the US don't get to choose bc health care is so expensive, their only option is snake oil and hope for the best.
Also also, the European rules for what can be sold over the counter, and what you are able to advertise as being beneficial or healthy, or a cure for something are waaaayyyy stricter than the rules in the US.
Melatonin for example, you can't get that in Denmark without a prescription from your doctor, who has done blood tests and tried to figure out what might be wrong.
You also can't say that omega3 oil is good for the heart on the package of some plant based cooking oil.
I thought that section was half true roasting. Meaning, detoxing isn't real. Alkalized water isn't real. But nutrients and phytonutrients are. CBD heals. Fish oil cures acne. Nutrients are good
Never in my life have I seen a grocery store or even outdoor market so STACKED with not one but multiple varieties of each fruit and vegetables. And even edible flowers? I have always grown those but cant give them away.
A massive irony of such a stacked store, is that each and every product has both a large environmental cost and almost always relies on gross human inequality to even exist. Take a product as simple as cashews for example. In the developed first world we think nothing of eating fistfuls of them and whole bowlfuls may be thrown away if leftover at a party or bar. But each cashew comes embedded in a fruit that is irritating and requires great skill to cut open to harvest the cashew. So thousands of women who probably never had the opportunity to go to school endure day after day of monotonous slave like labour extracting cashews for people in a far off land. There is a story like this for almost every product in a grocery store.
I cant stop laughing from your coments. It shows how pissed are you with the human race and turned it into a satire.
Much love and respect for you.
I have to say I'm torn. On one side, as a food lover and cook I am totally loving the variety, availability, and selection of some pretty awesome ingredients. On the other, I am disgusted by the fact that 70% of that produce it's either completely out of season (aka farmed somewhere in a greenhouse) or from the other side of the world. Why would you have 5 kinds of pineapple in a supermarket? why 20 different mushrooms? I mean, variety is great but I think in the US people will never learn that too much of anything is - for the most part - BAD.
Over stimulation leads to under amusement. Look at UA-cam, now offering UA-cam shorts.
"If I cant get be highly gratified very quickly I'll find somewhere else to go."
There is so much selection in the US no one appreciates anything. Rather than learning to like something, find something new to like. Endless selection of unhappiness...
It does seem a little overly decadent huh? (that bar full of olives was wild) Some of it reminds me of a large International market nearby, but with much huger piles of everything. But my area probably doesn't have the same kind of population density as Berkley. I wouldn't call my CAM a "woke grocery store", its just where everyone in the East Asian, Indian, and SEA communities have to go for the stuff they need to make their food, cause nowhere else carries alot of that stuff.
I agree, it is too much produce, I’m sure they waste a lot too. But I am amazed by the selection, I’ve never seen anything like that before and I’m 40 and have lived my whole life in America. But then again I’ve lived in poorer states that are more down to earth
@@TBonerton Also helps that the current generation has an attention span of 10 seconds
Oh its known, especially for us country folk. Less is usually better, but God dang it that was an impressive variety of ingredients to cook with. Oh well ill just garden what I like to eat.
I really appreciate all the examples of ass friendly products you have brought to my attention. Thank you
Herbal remedies
everything is ass friendly with enough lube. In fact, you could shove that whole produce section up there if you're a shoplifter.
@@Automedon2 I like your thinking.
@@Automedon2 try hard enough and you could smuggle Disney world out of that store
"This is where they tackle the homeless when they catch them shoplifting "😣💀
As a "college student with a septum ring" I fucking love this video and your channel, keep up your amazing work
If this video taught me anything, it's that the spiritually enlightened really get down with ass play.
It's one of those chicken and egg situations
Ketamine leads to masterbation. Masterbation leads to religion
Ass play is funn UwO
that's the fixation of the narrator
Well with all that wisdom absurdity is all but guaranteed to be a privilege.
I don't even want to imagine how many fruits & veggies they throw away every day.
That is a scary thought. I think composting should be mandatory.
Hopefully they go to a pig farm.
@@MK_ULTRA420 Hey! How about a food pantry to help feed the homeless!? What a novel idea!
@@000scubasteve Until a homeless person gets sick eating some produce that's gone bad and the food pantry is forced to shut down because of that, which is literally the reason food pantries already refuse old grocery produce.
@@MK_ULTRA420 get the seeds from the stuff that has it and replant stuff!!! DUH!!!
"Hippie snake oil" and what you said about the homeopathy stuff was right on.
I’m a plant science major in college currently and let me say, you are the only person on youtube i thoroughly enjoy watching when it comes to combining educational content and entertainment. I just found your channel last night while trying to go to bed and i found myself awake until 4 am with 2 computer screens with one watching your videos and the other on wikipedia absolutely dumbfounded how so many plant genera are in the same family. I’m only a sophomore starting this fall, so you gotta keep pumping out content and pushing snakes out the road ✊🏻
Honestly, welcome to the roller coaster of this channel. It's hard as hell to explain to anyone, but like a good book you can't stop once you start.
The pontification and monologues, the endless exposition about the beauty of nature. The stream of Latin.
It's a wild ride. Welcome.
EJT - I can relate to this 100%
Plant science?... where is this school?????asu?😂
Dis guy! He knows botanical names perfectly. Knows life even more
I think the "forbidden rice" may be black rice. I find it at the Vietnamese grocery store near my house, it used to be one of those things that only the Emperor was allowed to eat. It makes the water you boil it in turn purple.
"to Clease out the misery and the the desperation and the ... of the the person that lived here before you."😂😂
Joey dunking on west coast liberals and southern conservatives in one video amazing xD
Extremists of any flavor are usually douchebags
@@Automedon2 dude, he spoke out for bernie. He's criticising rich do-nothing liberals, not actual lefties
@@-vaniii- rich do-nothing liberals Have the power to cancel him - the media and celebrity types. The average lefty and righty have no power beyond making comments on Twitter and UA-cam. We mean nothing in the struggle for power.
@@-vaniii- Sounds like Bernie with his vacation homes he bought being a career parasite. Wait, I must use the politically correct term for parasite, politician.
@@hattorihanzo2275 he made a majority of his fortune by writing. And if you have a problem with corrupt politicians or 'parasites' you should probably support him.
"You got mice voting for cats." I'm stealing that analogy.
Mice typically fall in love with cats.
“That’s why snake oil sells.” Love it, I too am stealing.
@@trackerbuckmann1627 yes, from a parasite Toxoplasma gondii that's infected their brain: much like the modern 'woke' virus, it weakens the faculties to the point of the Predator has easy access to devouring the prey and the cycle starts again
Good way to describe Republicans
@@LDuke-pc7kq 1st define woke?....don't use words you don't understand......
If anyone has toxoplasmosis it's that dirty pus5y at home ya let lick your forehead..... but whatever duke does in his dog house.....is your own pus5y paradise of mind melting kult (gondii/ ) control....
Tony I know you posted this like two years ago, but I reckon I watch it at least once a week. Hands down one of the best crimepays videos of all time.
The “hippy snake oil section” is a perfect name for that stuff. I’m not gonna lie, I have chronic pain and have to keep myself from impulsively trying that stuff. You aren’t wrong, its success is a reflection of our crap healthcare. As someone who came from a small rural town I was excited that people knew what intersectionality was, then deeply disappointed by how people still acted. Love your stuff!
So true. Especially since doctors are afraid of prescribing pain meds because they'll be investigated.
I'm honestly considering becoming a junkie so the government will buy my pain meds for me.
Even if it's a placebo effect that is still an effect. Let the snake oil salesmen pitch their miracles.
Snake oil is sold around the world and very successfully, so I don't think the healthcare system is to blame. At least not fully.
@@madtabby66 no doctors scared to give u pain medication bro
@@dojoloachfr 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 like hell they're not. They're afraid of being investigated for feeding addictions. You can lose your licence over that.
Awww, The Berkeley Bowl! The only place I kept shopping at even after they fired me. Lol. The produce section was amazing... the daily sexual harassment from coworkers... not so much.
Nobody can sexually harass quite like male feminists
So you were sexually harassed, then fired, and still shopped there?
This is why California is considered the most mentally unstable state of all 50....
You liked it
@@leorickt.9604 oh I believe believe fuck outta that
You got the perfect number of likes ;)
I want to see the inverse of this; wherein Joey goes to a local farmer's market.
The capitalist grocery store that self identifies as a socialist moral compass.
Hmmmn the moral compass is perfectly capitalist too
the word your looking for is neoliberalism
Fredrik Karner This is one of those situations where you would be right if you werent wrong.
I mean both talk about the value of providing great variety to the people
China
“This is a great place to get talked-down to...” haha! That was good.
I’m only a third of the way through this. 😂 I am stopping now and watching the rest later, after some nice Chamomile tea. If I don’t, I will be going to the hospital due to hyperventilating from laughter.
I worked in the snake old department of health food store for over a decade and I’ve got to say this was the most inspired and honest video I’ve ever seen. Bravo Joey, bravo.
As some one who works retail, this store is well managed. I tried so hard to find a flaw. Their orderly and cleanliness are many magnitudes above my store. A Walmart in the less savvy side of town.
I absolutely love this store. It’s called Berkeley Bowl, why Bowl I don’t know. Maybe A BOWL of Berkeley, lol. They only have two of them in Berkeley. It’s always well organized and very clean, even the plants are nice!
That's just my local coles
That's what you get when you have a bunch of Master's degrees and PhD's running a grocery store!
Pretty great store but extremely crowded most of the time.
@@salpine nerd
I didn’t see the date stamp on this and thought “this is about right for the current times” regarding the social commentary.…it’s like my dude here was predicting the future! Huge fan of your content
Got to admit, I flinched at "trans POC" and wondered if this was going to go all red pill. Relieved to see it's at the expense of the token-touting performative neo-woke types. Sorry I doubted you CPBBD.
Have a little faith eh 😂
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.
Tbh I'm 2:34 in and I'm still in a bit of a fright about it possibly going red pill... I'm probably wrong though. Can you give me like a marker to strive towards for when it gets better so I can stick it out
Also what sort of neo woke types are we talking about? sort of like the pop feminists of BuzzFeed/Huffington Post/et al?
EDIT at 3:42: ohhhh, its like the weird slapfights on democratic twitter I've been seeing recently about how one person's candidate is better than the others, isnt it
Sounds pretty based to me.
If i said half this shit, people would call me a racist bigot
RagingDong
You implying you don’t say half that shit? F optics I’m going in
“America . . . where you got a bunch of mice that vote for cats” 😭 Beautifully put!!!
All to perpetuate and illegal occupation of stolen Native lands. What's even worse is some of the Natives are starting to fall for this shit🤦
@@melanieortiz712 gtfo of here. Go read up on your history. There was a long history between the Native Americans and colonists. Some good some bad. This garbage you radicals peddle about occupation is nonsense. Plenty of natives murdered innocent colonists just as colonist murdered innocent natives. And just because colonists had superior technology and came out on top doesn’t make them the villains of the story. This isn’t an 8th grade playground, it doesn’t matter who was here first. Everyone gets along fine now anyway, save for you bitter losers. You wouldn’t even be here moaning like a banshee on this comment thread without that “illegal occupation”. Lol. Illegal. Don’t even get me started on that. Illegal by what law? The law of your fee fees? You people are dangerous to the minds of the ignorant.
@@TheGooseIsLoose9000 Imagine getting triggered to defend an outright genocide. Someone is insecure.
@@donovandeflifts8062 hippie alert, probably like eating shit pies to toughen up your immune system dont ya
@@DreamOnDamu Bot response. Bot account.
Fiddleheads are DELICIOUS. Sauté them with some butter, yummmm. They're a great foraging staple in the spring here in Vermont. Ostrich ferns (Matteucia struthiopterus) are typically the kind that have edible fiddleheads before they unfurl.
Edit: Arnica --- I will forever hear and read it as Amica cream from the Heard/Depp trial.
They're also a good source of heavy metals (arsenic and others), so enjoy 😅
"It's great you guys can compare how many trans poc friends you got"
Killed me. For some it really is a race.
It’s like Pokémon you got to collect them all. “They’re not friends to make, they’re privileges to validate my ego”
I literally snort laughed and choked on my fried rice 😂😂😭😭😭
@Fungo Slungo And that is objectively racist you shameful piece of shit
@Fungo Slungo Bud please grow up out of your edgelord phase. You're going to look back on this and cringe.
To you? Pass.
I was laughing so hard I had to leave the room so I didn't wake my husband up. Freaking dying man, this was so perfect. You forgot to get your celery juice in a PLASTIC cup, but buy the "reusable" $10 straw because the environment bro 🤣.
You forgot to buy the $10 brush (pipe cleaner) to clean your reusable straw!
@@reggiestickleback7794 all wrapped in ten times as much plastic as a straw.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory i will personally kill evey sea turtle in existence if it means i get normal straws again lol
12:31 "isn't that what the rednecks say? California's full of fruit and nuts? I'm fine with that, better that than people who don't believe in evolution" lmao as one of those Californian fruits, I love this. totally agree!
love the total loathing of society this man has lol so pure
ikrr
It’s not hatred so much as distain. A deep, broad, distain.
@@Plantlady70 Good.
"You can compare how many trans poc friends you've got"
Gotta catch em all.
Legend
Just don't call it by its name - "tokenizing".
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I hate to say it, but this is why I'm glad to be one of the "lucky" members of that demographic who doesn't stick out of a crowd like a sore thumb... I don't make a good enough token...
@@jerbil2191 I've got a few trans friends but none of them are people of color. Wait, one is Asian. I gained twenty points but then lost ten.
This man reached a breaking point to do this and I'd love to have been able to see what really set him off.
I kinda doubt it - it's pretty much his modus operandi.
It’s not that complicated, just look around.
Oppression. / sad, difficult life
@@derekgray1633 that actually says a lot about you on a personal level tbh
[3:39] I've seen a couple knifings in that room before, it's actually -- *Ooh look at the berries!!*
I couldn’t help noticing that the produce section was busy but orderly while there wasn’t a single Berkeleyite in the herbals and supplements - only our intrepid cynic. But thank you for the tour and commentary. You’re dependably informative and entertaining.
J Warren merely talking out loud to yourself or with a phone is enough to drive them away
they all brought something for inside their ass from home
I’ve never seen this guy before and have 0 idea what his channel is about and didn’t know what to expect from this video but idk if it’s that i’m getting tired at nearly midnight or his voice is just calming since it is an ideal blend of ‘useful information to capture interest’ and ‘inane comments that can be forgotten immediately and are effectively white noise’
Nothing says our business is environmentally conscientiousness like dying trees in the parking lot! Lol
And almost EVERYTHING wrapped in plastics
@@redlaserfox3988 truee
It was rad to see that a lot of the mushrooms and produce in general weren't packaged!!
BMG_spaceman It’s called early spring, I think.
also that bug ass ac you can see just at peaking out the top at 0:002-0:004
You're just in there, grocery shoppin' and this chicago guy comes in and without even talking to you makes you feel like a complete a-hole for buying a head of lettuce from there lmfao this was great.
he’s the a hole
I find turmeric pills to be hilarious. Why not just buy the spice, along with a few others, from the middle eastern section of the supermarket and, for half the price, make yourself a delicious curry instead? You get to eat great food, get whatever benefits the stuff supposedly has, and shit, even if it doesn't actually work - you still had curry! It's still a win.
Have you thought about becoming a tour guide?
Best tour of Berkeley ever
"Now if you look to ya right, you can plainly see the most disgusting memorial to human arrogance that ever existed... Phoenix, Arizona... in fact, it's to tha left too."
"Cultural anthropology section" 😂
I'm hooked from the beginning
That, along with "intersectional PhD's" and "trans POC's," plus his extensive knowledge of botanical terminology, makes me suspect that our hero may himself be a fugitive from academia!
This video is so damn good, i keep coming back to it every couple months and it still makes me laugh my ass off every time
Diogenes applauds you from the grave.
you know i was in line at the store behind a lady who forgot to "purchase " a .05 cents plastic bag the other day and she was stuck there on the counter with a pile of goods she could not possibly carry to the car without a bag. well the clerk informed her that he could not sell her a plastic bag because the system only allows there sale as part of a transaction.
she did not get mad she just tried to reason with the clerk... his response was helplessness at the mercy of the"system"
i bought her a bag as part of my transaction.
this is f...... ridiculous. Still no redemption taxes on excessive bottling or packaging or on amazon, or mail order ship me my whole lazy dinner in a box packing, or your takeout from door dash last night..............but a lady cannot carry her groceries to the car because it uses a bag?
As a society were are our priorities? Can we get real?
i love sea turtles birds and fish and have no desire grow bigger plasticizer induced breasts.
but if we continue as a society to not address the bigger challenges facing us and just dilly-dally around with "achievable bs goals" that blow smoke up our a.. things will continue to get uglier fast.
achievable goals are what got us in this mess we need to rise higher than that.
This video is not "off topic" its is right on topic people listen to what the guy is really saying, all his videos are social commentary.
just because it hits closer to home.......we are all hypocrites, first step in the 12 step program= self awareness
Thank you
Shane Gray plastic bags are being phased out. Wish more paper bags were available but unfortunately soon there won't be any plastic bags available.
Just buy a bubble gum or something then buy bags in that transaction?
The computer has been presented to the world world has something which is meant to be a solution and an all round blessing; it just goes to show that a huge number of programmes written for some uses have the opposite effect.
if you remember to take your reusable bag with you when you go shopping , you never have this problem. It's not too hard to do, it becomes second nature.....glad Wales banned free bags many years ago, it seems odd to even think of buying a bag as I instinctively take in the shopping bag when I go to the shop..
@@jm-ze3sf Of coarse,
But life is not always pre planned.
Also now at least temporarily there is the virus....
and then there is a debate floating around about how much resources reusable bags use versus single use, bags.
The theory is you need 600 uses out of each heavy duty bag to equal the life span of raw material that goes into disposables ....I honestly am skeptical of this idea but have not researched it fully yet. It does seem overly convenient to plastic industry goals.
So when do you launch the 'Joey's Milkweed Miracle Cure-All'? Grown from sustainable organic milkweed - may as well bring in some monarch conservation on the sly. Safe for human consumption? Who knows!
No matter how poor I get, I won't allow myself to run out of onion. I'll break the law to get my onion.
@Ben agreed.
I will smuggle garlic up my ass
An onion would be more difficult, though.
Drove on the highway today and a truck with onions must’ve crashed. Onions fucking everywhere
Plant up some Green Onion bulbs next time you get green onions or chives or whatever at the grocery store, and you'll never run out of green onions haha. Plus, after three seasons or so, I think the bulbs grow into full size "storage onions" you can split off to eat or replant for even more onions lol. I've only planted the bulbs, so I've not had mine growing long enough to see what they do in the long term, but that's what I've read :D
Bunch of mice who vote for cats, did I really hear that? Or hallucinate that?
Or is it the toxoplasmosis?
The cats have so much money and power they can convince the mice that they will not be destroyed my the cat's purely self-serving policies.
@@jamesdriscoll9405 maybe it's maybelline?
@@disciplebill One of my favorite jokes lol.
its a lie yall relly vote insect
in my work experience it seems like the amount of waste scales up with the amount of choices people can select from. more variety = more thrown out shit
Lmaooo I swear he got the “sniffing farts from a champagne glass” from the southpark episode where they move to San Francisco 😂🤙🏼
I thought it was about hybrids on SP???
Of course he did. Berkeley is only slightly more woke
"No one's ever drank 8 fizzy waters - 8 black cherry sparkling waters - and got a DUI or discharged a firearm at their neighbor."
I mean, out of all the stuff, I hear cranberry juice does help against the sort of mild UTIs that women get from sitting on cold. Maybe an overkill to blast your gut with antibiotics on the first day of discomfort.
That was fucking hilarious! As a woke person with a PhD, it's absolutely true that I enjoy putting things in my ass. That aside, that store is really impressive, I wonder the quantity of food they just throw out. It seems just hubristic the mountains of food there are.
I mean... did you see how busy it was?
Come on Joey we know you were in the store wearing skinny jeans and a man bun wig, deep cover..
Going under cover
Tony you would love Iron Mtn. MI. Due to the Italians who came to work in the mines here, there's an Italian deli, and the locally owned stores carry six to eight varieties of Italian sausages, meats, cheeses, and pastas. The local bakery sells cannoli's and Italian bread. There are more then enough😁pizza parlors, and bars sell pizza by the slice. Italian fest is in the summer, and German fest in the fall. It's a cornucopia of ethnic cuisine.😄
As much as I adore your botany videos, this is one of my favorites! The satire and shade was so strong, I can hardly believe it wasn't scripted, phenominal.
“The fun thing to do with them is tease them and see if you can get them to hit you” 🤣💀
That's a good way to get shot.
@@TheHexeract This is Berkeley, California. I love the city and have spent a bunch of time there. It is ultra-liberal and
Selling hope. Wonder if you could get something to grow from those exotic mushrooms. Black rice is available cheap in Asian markets here.
It's so cathartic to hear you say the shit out loud that's running through my mind when I get groceries at New Skeezins in PDX
"I don't know what you do with that, I think it's for the hippies" 🤣🤣🤣
Didn't know this was a minning channel cause this video is pure gold.
How to take free samples
Step 1: Reach in take a handful
Step 2: Use hand-sanitizer *afterwards*
don't bother with hand sanitizer, the samples are already ultra-contaminated with the plague so you're just wasting it.
@DAVID LEITÃO MARQUES I'm more of a thorough cleansing of laundry detergent and bleach kind of guy.
Dude you are the wisest man in america
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't for president.
Has my vote. He has got to be more capable than the asshats in politics on purpose.
The thing about guys like him is that they probably wouldn't be caught dead doing such a thing.
Cannon
>implying US presidents have the power to do anything
Democracy was a mistake
I think he’s too anti establishment to kiss the ass of rich Americans.
Yea but if he’s running against a cat I will really have to put some serious thought into who I vote for.
12:30 "isn't that what the rednecks always say? California is full of fruit and nuts?" IM DYINGGGGGGG 💀💀💀
Berkeley. Too large to be an insane asylum, too small to be a city state.
It's a nice town, with great food, museums, symphony and Greek Theater concerts, and wonderful playgrounds for the kids.
I have lived here over 40 years and it's a mellow town, usually. If there's a riot, it's probably out-of-towners who come here to start trouble.
I park my car on the street and it has never been broken into.
The weather is nice, too. 😊
Wow! That is an incredibly well stocked shop! I’ve not seen anything quite so well stocked in the UK, maybe in Europe but not here. I’m really enjoying your content, it’s presented in a refreshingly different way the the lectures at Uni and is really helping things stick. Thank you.
Is this the co-op? I went there once in the late 80s. I worked on a construction crew in Berkeley with my cousin, who had a PhD (in a subject unrelated to building). The lead carpenter and the contractor also had PhDs, and there were a couple of guys with master’s degrees. I was the least educated guy with a mere (and brand new) bachelor’s degree.
"Nobody's drank 8 fizzy waters and got a dui or discharged a firearm on their neighbor" lmao 🤣
that guy staring during "condescendingly lectured by a college student with a septum ring who can explain to you how to think and behave and police your language" looool crying 💀
I always make my tea at home because usually the bottled teas have citric acid or something in them that makes them taste weird and I just prefer the pure taste of tea
Also it’s definitely cheaper lol
Also I used to work at a store kind of like this in the health and beauty department and it blew my mind how many different products had coconut oil and/or activated charcoal in it, and most of them you’re just like “why though?” You’d think they’re like miracle elixirs or something but they’re really not lol
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world.
@@jibblyhaus7562 So... pretty much the same as before then.
Based and ted pilled
Nah it's fine. The 00s were a fuckin disaster. Participation awards, anti bullying, grade curves, no child left behind. People think they're special just cos they exist. None of you, or I, or anyone from president dingus right down to alleyway Johnson matter. Expendable. Every last one. People used to know that and act accordingly, now they fuckin get hospitalized when someone's mean or proves the dumb shit they say makes no sense.
Let's get back to industry and relax some safety laws. That'll whip em back into shape.
preach it ted