No. She’s ruined the show for a lot of people. She’s only a favorite of Andy. Hopefully she’ll be gone next year.

i give costco a bump because they were one of the first chains i was aware of that paid its workers well above the unusal standard in grocery, which is generally garbage, having worked in grocery for a while. so while i really do not have one close, i respect them for being good to their workers, aldis apparently also…

Most of the people I know who watch RHONY do NOT consider Leah a “fan favorite”.

Are they made in store? Here’s the thing, if it’s a privately owned company, they could be using some other well-known brand relabeled as their own and not have to disclose it. Aldi, for example, just rebrands Lays as their own potato chips. Costco’s Kirkland ground coffee is Starbucks. Hell, Girl Scout Thin Mints are…

RHONY has long been far and above all of the other franchises in my mind but last night I was not feeling it. At all. I think what worked for so long is you got the sense that they were all friends or you could believe at least that they COULD be friends. Last night clearly just looked like a cast of people forced to…

I’m half an hour in and can’t stop almost screaming every time people rip off their masks and sit/stand much closer than 6 feet. 

Whole Foods is my go to for produce (I even spring for delivery!) for this exact reason. The walkable market in my city to where I live is equally expensive for produce, with less selection. I’ve done Aldi and it is a gamble every time. I don’t have a car, so TJs and other stores that don’t deliver aren’t an option…

Stew Leonard’s is about as pretentious as a Cracker Barrel, and emulates a farm stand about as much as one. Like straight up down to the crazy crap on the walls.

I’ve never been. Too crowded.

I’ve heard stories about Hartford that will make your skin crawl and while I’m sure there are plenty of nice areas in Connecticut, those ones were so striking that they tainted my impression of the state altogether.

I get that Whole Foods is overall considered to be expensive, but nevertheless, I spent a month with a friend in small town Massachusetts and Whole Foods was the ONLY place I could afford fruit.

Whole Foods is the truly ridiculous grocery store price wise, you'd go to Stew Leonard's to spend less. Also Costco is great and people from all different backgrounds appreciate it. It's bulk stuff, but it's pretty good quality wise. Going to Costco isn't quite the oh poor me situation this article implies. C-Town…

Is this a generational thing, too? People who don’t cook for leftovers? I, too find your roommates behavior puzzling. Growing up a white and comfortably middle class, I definitely recognize the stores you’re talking about. Steeles Market in Ft. Collins, Co., New Seasons, Portland, OR. But with few exceptions, mom…

Or Yonkers. Sure, we have some nicer sections but most of Yonkers is virtually indistinguishable from the Bronx. 

I grew up near there, when the whole area was basically full of the children of Italian and Irish and Jewish immigrants from the early 1900s.  It was a regular place.  We considered Greenwich, Westport, New Canaan, and Darien to be the expensive and elite areas.  Recent reports are that the entire southwest corner of…

Sorry, but have you ever been to a Publix? They are SUPPOSED to be mainstream and accessible, but even their processed, non-organic, “cheap” shit is expensive. One example... their organic, anti-biotic free flank steak at SL is $8.99 per pound currently. Publix is selling their cheaper, non-organic version for $8.49…

They’re both in Connecticut. And everybody seems to think that Connecticut is only rich hedge fund guys who live in Greenwich. It’s definitely not true. There are very diverse towns in CT, both economically and in every other way. The Black Panther HQ used to be in New Haven and there was a massive trial there…

The original Stew Leonard’s was in Norwalk, CT. It really did grow out of a dairy farm, and the prices there in the 80s were lower than they were in the regular grocery stores.

Yeah the myopia is strong here. Also, “New York has to reflect the way New York looks today.” Erm, New York also looked that way in 1998 when the show premiered. They just can’t ignore it now without being (justifiably) called out.

Caitlyn was one of those dads that abandon their first family and then go on to dote on their new kids. Hurtful for the older children.