A last-minute scramble for a pie tin (grasshopper pie… mmmmm!) occasioned a Thanksgiving Day visit to the Good Life Grocery. The perfect excuse for a micro-interview!
Bernalwood: Anything been flying off the shelves today?
Manager Frank: Turkeys! The owners picked up these organic Willie Birds from the farm themselves. Also, bread. Our deli staff is baking fresh bread on-site now.
Bernalwood: How crazy has it been today?
Manager Frank: Not too bad. Yesterday was waaaaay worse!
Happy Thanksgiving, Bernal Heights!
Bernalwood 
I’m grateful for Bernalwood…and pie.
Love the micro-interview! And Frank, and the Good Life, and Bernal Heights, and Bernalwood!
And Frank, when are you ordering the teriyaki & pineapple meatballs?
How could I not love Frank as my dad and bro had the same name. Thank you Frank for kajuling the young pups outside your shop.
Frank is the best grocery store manager in the universe. A total freaking nut. I truly love the guy.
Arf. Frank always feeds me when I’m tied up outside. Arf.
Oh if only you could get freshly sliced deli meat at Good Life…
I second that, Rusty. I would much prefer to have my deli meats sliced to order and wrapped in paper – not plastic. Hopefully GL will read this as they have wonderful customer service and support local schools with their scrip program.
Oh but they do! Just a couple of weeks ago, I purchased a half pound of french ‘picnic’ ham, sliced before my eyes.
They always tell me the Willie Bird turkey is in the refrigerator case. And was packed 1+ weeks ago and the vacuum sealed plastic bags does strange stuff to the turkey. Today I was disappointed to see that they’re now fudging the date codes on the vacuum-packed deli meat: They had put a sticker over the original sticker saying it was packed yesterday but the original sticker said packed Nov 22nd. 😦
Maybe I will have to insist they slice it fresh for me.
Just ask them behind the counter and they’ll do it!
FRANK! Love him.
Hey! I wrote a little article about the Good life’s amazing produce. If you want to check it out… go to here! Thanks! 🙂
http://bluepearlgirlsworld.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/to-dream-of-the-produce-isle-now-this-is-the-good-life/