I remember Atlantic City's Steel Pier and my favorite, the Million Dollar Pier. I loved that place & hated when they tour it down to put up that cruise ship shaped mall with all the dreck for sale.

- Jake

I've never really understood the necessity for a mall on every boardwalk in NJ. We have a plethora of malls away from the beach. Do we really need them at the beach as well?

I guess they make money, and they're an alternative to the casinoes on rainy days, but why can't they be nice malls?

- Jake

If you build it, they will shop. Clearly, it doesn't have to be nice.

Doesn't even have to involve shopping. Do you know Philly has a Mummers' Museum? :shocked:

- Jake

Yea, because i'm sure I even want to see them on New Years Day. I detest the Mummers Parade. A museum is NOT necessary.

I am rather interested in going to the new National Constitution Center that opened up last July. I have to do that soon but I'll most likely need to drag an unwilling and uninterested particpant so I don't have to go on my own :laugh:

A group of friends and I are planning to hit museums every week this summer. And this fall the Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to the Museum Of Natural Science here. That I'm looking forward to.

- Jake

I looooove the creamy French dressing that Kraft puts out. :xoxo:

That's really awesome. So I take it there are a ton of museums in Houston then?

I hate Trader Joe's and I hate Whole Foods even more.

Whenever I go to Trader Joe's, they always have crappy cheap wine and really weird foodstuffs- which I buy and then never eat.

Whole Foods is so f**king full of snobby vegetarians!! Can't STAND it!!!

Oh, sorry- I forgot.....

My favorite salad dressing is Bob's Big Boy country ranch. That or Marie's creamy Italian.

:shocked:

Yeah, there are some incredibly snobby people that shop at those stores, but I still love them. Anyways, if someone were to be snobby towards me, I'd be just as rude and would probably call them a beeotch. So there. :p

I don't drink (Liquor? I hardly knew her!), so the two-buck chuck can stay on the shelves. Even though I must say that the Mick Fleetwood wine looks mighty tasty. :rolleyes:

But the whole foods are so good. So, so good. :nod:

I find it a bit bland for my taste, but I like some Kraft dressings.

- Jake

There are some good ones. A close friend is a curator in Baltimore, and I know she's partial to the ones on the east coast.

- Jake

I agree. And I'm not one for wholly organic shaving cream.

- Jake

A lot of ranch fans here, evidently.

- Jake

Everyone I work with is obsessed with dipping their food in ranch dressing. My boss likes to order those personal pizzas...they sell ranch. It actually wasn't bad but I don't think it's something I could eat all of the time.

Same here.

- Jake

I've been to a few in Baltimore and some up north as well. What can I say? I like museums :shrug:

You can say you know the mummies don't wear thongs underneath.

Actually, I like museums quite a bit. But I can't say I'm much for modern art, which has been big down here in the past year.

- Jake

:rolleyes:

Ugh. Not my favorite. I like the Philadelphia Art Museum but there are a few sections I need to skip...

I don't remember going there when I lived back east, but my mom says they took me a lot when I was little. When I lived in Chicago I used to go to the Art Institute a lot.

- Jake

I've been there a few times. There is a room on the top floor all the way in the back. It's basically black scribbles on a huge white canvas. People were guarding that room. I know it's "art" but seriously....c'mon now... :distress:

Like I said, can't say I'm a fan. :shrug:

- Jake