This is not a joke.  The above photo of corn was taken from my local Walmart Grocery Store. I also note that this wasn’t a fall holiday display. This corn was for sale for consumption.

Even though it’s been close to a decade that I’ve been living in Arizona it’s still a lot of culture shock to me when I see food like this at the Supermarket.  Where I grew up on the east coast the produce displayed was always fresh, bountiful and beautiful. I also don’t remember purchasing expired food there like I accidentally do here from time to time.  I don’t know if things have changed since I’ve been living in Arizona but that is the way it was.

Supermarkets in Arizona just leave the old rotting produce out instead of placing the stuff on a clearance cart for quick sale or donating the less than perfect produce to charity.

Nearly all the cauliflower was starting to turn rotten from my local Safeway Store. All but a very few have many small rotten spots.

Maybe it’s easier to see here.

Fresh herbs don’t seem fresh and are wilted.

Peppers are in need of botox because they have wrinkles.

Sadly a bad apple spoiled the bunch……in every bag.

I got these beauties from Costco. Every forking onion had a rotten center. How the Fork does that happen? Usually onions rot from the surface?

How about some dried out purple asparagus for $4.99 a pound?

Rapini looks almost dead.

Salmon looks awful. Fish is almost always awful and always taste off here. That’s why I try to eat fish out when I go to a restaurant…because I can’t purchase any forking fresh fish.

Lettuce looks unappetizing.

Avocados are moldy

Two weeks later the same or similar avocados were on sale for 44 cents each.

It’s not just once in a while. This corn is from another time from the same store. (Walmart Grocery)

This is the corn from Safeway. My picture doesn’t show how truly bad the corn is. It’s dried out and rotten at the same time.

It’s not just produce ……….I found something FORKING Weird in my cottage cheese.

I don’t know what it is and I’m afraid to touch it.

I contacted Kraft Foods and told them it’s looks like a forking gooey ear in the cottage cheese and asked them what it was.

Eric from Kraft Foods swiftly contacted me back.

He said that Kraft is very careful about their production of food. He said it looked like a problem of the product going threw temperature change during handling and might be some sort of mold. Ummm mold oh yum…….

It’s just another spoiled or bad thing I picked up at my local Phoenix AZ Market.

I note I don’t know if all of Metro Phoenix AZ Markets have these problems or if it’s just the ones conveniently  located near my house. I also do note it’s not this terrible all the time. It just happens often and I don’t understand why. I wonder if the stores are managed by a manager?  Do the stores pay a manager? I would think management would either not accept the less than desirable produce during delivery. Maybe the produce gets spoiled by improper storage in the Grocery Store….?  When spoiled produce is placed on shelves the management should tell the help to remove the spoiled produce……..I would think.

But no…that doesn’t happen….

I also note that I haven’t come across these problems from the small sized grocery stores like Sprouts and Trader Joe’s. But these stores are small and don’t carry everything you need so you have to do some of your shopping at some other store.

I come across TOO MUCH FORKING BAD Food at Phoenix Grocery Markets.