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00:00Thanks for checking in, Catherine.
00:01Thank you for making me laugh every morning.
00:06So I get this Instagram direct message from Kenny,
00:09and Kenny says that he was at Sam's Club the other day
00:12and noticed somebody open up a box of granola bars in Sam's Club in the cart.
00:20They hadn't paid yet and proceeded to eat one of the bars.
00:23I was shocked and couldn't believe what I saw.
00:27So I asked my wife, and she says it happens all the time.
00:31I posted it on my Facebook wall
00:33and asked my friends to vote on whether or not this was okay to do.
00:38Tons of responses.
00:40I was shocked as majority seemed to think it was okay.
00:46Be interested to get your crew's take and listeners' opinions.
00:53I mean, I was in the grocery business for years, as you know.
00:55You were a bag boy at Publix, right?
00:58Yes, for eight years.
00:59I didn't get past bag boy, but that's besides the point.
01:02But I do know.
01:03So you weren't on your way to becoming a Publix store manager.
01:06No.
01:07You know that we've talked about this in the past.
01:08They do very well.
01:09Do you know that Publix store managers, the big dog,
01:12the general manager of Publix,
01:14do you know that that is a highly coveted gig
01:17to get the actual manager job running a Publix?
01:20Because I heard that most of the Publix store managers retire as millionaires.
01:27Yeah.
01:27Yeah.
01:28The one that we had was rich.
01:30Yep.
01:31But you have to work there for like 50 years.
01:33No, no.
01:33You work for a long time.
01:34But most – I heard that Publix store managers retire from Publix as millionaires.
01:39But I will say, as a bag boy, I did notice –
01:42I remember one customer who would always come in, you know, every other day.
01:47It was an old lady, and she would eat the grapes while she was shopping.
01:51See, no, that – you can't do that.
01:53That's different because you pay for grapes by weight.
01:55Exactly.
01:55So, again, we ought to go to phones on this.
01:57I mean, there's a sample grape number, like maybe two.
02:00Hang on a minute.
02:02Let's deal with this.
02:03And I want to go to phones on this.
02:05There is – I don't have an issue.
02:06If you're in a supermarket and you've got some cookies and you want to open up the bag of cookies
02:11and kind of nosh on the cookies, or if you have a fixed-priced product
02:16and you want to open up some breadsticks while you're shopping –
02:19I've done it in the past.
02:20I guarantee you do it.
02:22I don't do it regularly, especially with COVID.
02:24I'm not sure.
02:24I'm not going to eat while I'm walking around without a mask on.
02:27So, during COVID, I haven't done it.
02:29But I've done it in the past.
02:30Michelle can confirm that.
02:31I've absolutely opened up an item.
02:34Now, there's a shady thing because if you're in a supermarket,
02:39haven't you noticed, like, opened items that are then shoved back on the shelf?
02:41If you put it back, that's stealing.
02:43That is stealing.
02:44But as I've been a supermarket connoisseur for many years,
02:48sometimes you see opened items that are, like, shoved in a whole different aisle,
02:52and that's where somebody started eating, and they said,
02:55okay, snack time's over.
02:57I'm just going to put it back.
02:58I'm not going to pay for it.
02:58Now, when I've eaten in the store, I buy the item, and it's not a buy-weight item.
03:06If you buy a whole thing of grapes and you start eating the grapes, that's stealing
03:10because when you go to a checkout and weigh them,
03:13the grapes might be half of what you started with.
03:15That's a lot of grapes.
03:16That's death.
03:17But if you buy a package of Oreos...
03:19The skew is still the same.
03:21Yeah, and you start eating the Oreos, it's not by...
03:23The price is the price.
03:24How about this?
03:25Last time I was at Publix, I saw a guy shopping, but he was mowing down Publix sushi.
03:31Like, he had it open.
03:32Oh, yeah.
03:32And he was just going...
03:33It must have been his lunch.
03:34You know what?
03:35Let's go...
03:35Hold on a second.
03:36Let's go to phones on this.
03:38800-990-1047.
03:41800-990-1047.
03:45Let's go to phones on eating while in the supermarket.
03:49Now, I'll tell you what I'd be really impressed with.
03:51So, folks, do you think it's acceptable?
03:54This guy...
03:55What was his name?
03:57Was it Kenny?
03:57Hang on.
03:58Let me open my phone again.
03:59Yeah, it was Kenny.
03:59Yeah, it was Kenny.
04:00So, it's Kenny French.
04:01Hey, Kenny.
04:02Hopefully, you're listening.
04:03So, Kenny...
04:04He's not of an idea.
04:06What?
04:06Hold on.
04:08Hold on to that thought.
04:09Hold on.
04:10So, Kenny is appalled at this.
04:13Kenny can't believe that somebody would open up food and eat it in the supermarket.
04:17If you then have it in your cart and you check out and pay for it, there's no problem.
04:23Listen, the checkout clerks, they see this all the time.
04:26They don't care.
04:27All right.
04:27Let's go to phones on this.
04:28What is your take on eating while you're in the supermarket?
04:32All right.
04:32800-990-1047.
04:35Let's go to phones.
04:37800-990-1047.
04:41800-990-1047.
04:44All right.
04:44Froggy, what do you...
04:45All right.
04:45So, without Froggy even saying it, I know the idea.
04:48All right.
04:48So, this is going to be...
04:49You know, my last hit was a manatee video.
04:51All right.
04:51Froggy wants to go to supermarkets.
04:53No.
04:54I want you to go to supermarkets.
04:55Froggy wants to do it himself.
04:57No.
04:57He wants to go to supermarkets.
04:58He wants to go with, like, a save a lot and just open up a pack of their off-brand
05:02cookies and just plow them down.
05:04And let's think bigger than that.
05:05You send Fesher to the grocery store.
05:07Yeah.
05:08And you have him buy a tire chicken, a bunch of bags of chips.
05:13And then, while he's buying it all, he just eats it.
05:16And then he goes to the cash out with just empty stuff.
05:20The whole thing of empty stuff.
05:21So, the whole cart is just...
05:23He's just eating a whole chicken.
05:24Do you think...
05:24Now, that would be funny.
05:26If Fesher is eating a whole rotisserie chicken...
05:29Or the fried chicken bucket.
05:31Or just, like, humongous foods.
05:34Wait, wait.
05:34You just throw the bones out of the conveyor belt.
05:37What if I incorporate my kids and I have them in the cart eating chicken as well?
05:44Huh?
05:44And I open up, like, the potato salad and everybody has a fork?
05:46Yeah.
05:47You have plates.
05:49You've got to get, like, a head-strap GoPro.
05:51Oh, you've got to have plates, all kinds of stuff.
05:53You're just mowing down an entire rotisserie chicken.
05:56You just bought yourself a new Fester video.
05:58Put it on the list.
05:59Listen.
05:59So, when the pandemic struck, the supermarket stopped giving out cookies at the bakery.
06:05Yeah, because Publix would give away cookies to little kids, right?
06:08Oh, I think every supermarket does it.
06:09Anyway, that's the only reason why my kids want to go to the store.
06:12We go there, first thing they say is, can we get a cookie?
06:13Can we get a cookie?
06:14We get a cookie.
06:14And now they stopped giving them out.
06:16That's not cool.
06:17We would get the cookies from the bakery, open them, I'd give them the cookies while we're in the cart,
06:22and then buy the pack of cookies.
06:24Okay, that makes sense.
06:24All right, let's go to phones now.
06:25What are your thoughts about people eating as they're shopping in the supermarket?
06:31And I'm talking about legitimately you eat, but then you pay at the end.
06:35You put your open package on the conveyor belt at the checkout stand, so you're paying for it.
06:41So, what are your thoughts on that?
06:42Because Kenny, the listener, he's appalled.
06:45All right, 800-990-1047.
06:48Fire up the phones right now.
06:49I want to get your opinion.
06:50What have you seen?
06:52What have you seen in the supermarket?
06:53Has Kenny been in prison?
06:55Has he been under a rock?
06:57Has he never seen this?
06:58This is very common.
06:59It is.
07:00I mean, I've done this probably a couple dozen times over my lifetime.
07:04All right, let's go to phones.
07:05800-990-1047.
07:08So, your thoughts, and then also, do you have any things you've observed with people eating in the supermarket?
07:13All right, let's grab Ashley.
07:15He's in Clearwater.
07:16Ashley, you're on the MJ Morning Show on Q105.
07:19Hi, Ashley.
07:20Hello, good morning.
07:22Good morning, Ashley.
07:23So, yes.
07:25I actually worked at a grocery store as well and see this all the time, especially, like, public subs.
07:34A lot of times people would steal those, you know, eat them in the store.
07:37You'd see the wrappers.
07:38Or I've had people come up to the cash register with just an empty sub wrapper and say, hey, sorry, I was hungry,
07:44and just, you know, scan the code that was on the sub wrapper.
07:47Yeah.
07:48All kinds of stuff like that.
07:48Yeah, see, but there's nothing wrong with that because they're paying for the sub that they ate.
07:54That they consumed, but they're paying for it, exactly.
07:58So, I see nothing wrong with that, but there was a lot of stealing, you know.
08:02Yeah, the people that eat the food and then put the empty wrappers or half-eaten wrappers back on the shelf.
08:09Now, that sucks.
08:10That sucks, yep.
08:12And then be able to clean up after it, and that is stealing.
08:15But, no, I've done it myself.
08:16If I'm hungry and I'm in the supermarket, I've picked up some items, ate them while shopping, and then just paid for it.
08:24Thanks for the call, Ashley.
08:26Yes, yes.
08:26Have a good one.
08:27Have a good one.
08:28All right.
08:28Robert is in Tampa.
08:29Hello, Robert.
08:30You're on the MJ Morning Show.
08:31Welcome.
08:32Hey, welcome back, guys.
08:33Glad you're back.
08:35Thanks, Robert.
08:35Hey, Robert, how long have you known that we were back on the air?
08:39Oh, my God.
08:39Since you got back, I think it was last, obviously, last year, over a year, I think you've been back.
08:44I'm glad you found us from the beginning, because, you know, people are still discovering us all the time that we're back.
08:50All right, Robert, go ahead.
08:52Oh, my God.
08:52I go to Sam's Club.
08:53My wife goes shopping, and I go there for lunch.
08:56Are you kidding me?
08:56I hit all the little stations, and then I don't have to have lunch.
08:59Okay.
08:59But I got to tell you.
09:00But that is.
09:03That's different.
09:03Those are samples they're giving out.
09:04Yeah, you're eating the samples.
09:06That's different than.
09:07Oh, yeah, no, but here's what happens.
09:08Then I go, and I open up the crackers and the cookies, and I stuff my face with them, but I do go, and I pay for them.
09:13Yeah.
09:13Now, that's what we're talking about.
09:16So, you're, like, double dipping.
09:17You're getting the free samples, but then you're also noshing on the stuff that you're going to check.
09:20How hungry are you, sir?
09:22Yeah.
09:22I don't eat the grapes and all that stuff, and then that's kind of like stealing.
09:26Yeah, that is stealing.
09:27Only cookies.
09:28You're eating the weight.
09:29Hey, Robert, thanks for the call.
09:30You really should work some fruit in your diet, sir.
09:32Amy.
09:33Amy is way out in Claremont.
09:35Hello, Amy.
09:36You're on the MJ Morning Show.
09:37Hi.
09:38All right.
09:38So, this is really funny.
09:39My dad used to do this when I was little, and he would show up to the register, the checkout,
09:43with, like, an empty Hershey's bar, a bag of chips, an empty soda, and he would get groceries, too.
09:48And it was just, like, a normal thing for us.
09:51So, when I grew up and had my own daughter, like, she would be in, like, the front of the cart, like, feeding me Cheetos while we were shopping and eating all sorts of stuff.
09:59And I just thought this was, like, a normal thing.
10:00And I told friends about it, and they're appalled.
10:02They're just appalled to do that.
10:04So, I didn't know.
10:05So, the whole cart is filled with, he's having a whole meal as he's shopping.
10:11That's what grocery-eating man has to do, but with a bunch of rotisserie chickens.
10:15We got to do that.
10:16Fester is, Fester is, Fester is, Fester is grocery eater.
10:21We'll come up with a good day.
10:22Each of his kids has a drumstick in their head.
10:25I need Macs.
10:25I need your boy for this.
10:26We'll need everybody's kids.
10:28What is the macaroni, like, the Bob Evans macaroni and cheese?
10:30Just have spoons.
10:31You're just eating everything out of it.
10:32Or you can just make sandwiches with bologna and deli meats and hand them out.
10:36Amy, thanks for the call.
10:38Kimberly's in Valrico.
10:39Hello, Kimberly.
10:40You're on the MJ Morning Show.
10:41Hi.
10:42Hey, good morning.
10:43How are you guys this morning?
10:44We are well.
10:45Tell us about supermarket eating.
10:47So, my husband and I and my daughter, she's about 10 years old then, we were in a Walmart,
10:52like one of those little family Walmarts.
10:55It's like a marketplace.
10:56Yeah, it's called the Neighborhood Walmart.
10:58Yeah, yeah.
10:59And right there in Valrico.
11:00So, and a lady was walking around eating raw hamburger meat.
11:05She had the hamburger meat up where, like, you would put your kid, and she had it ripped
11:10open and she was just shoving it in her mouth.
11:12Oh, my God.
11:13She's a vampire?
11:14No.
11:15I'm serious.
11:16And they actually ended up, and I looked at my husband, I said, am I really seeing this?
11:20And he was like, yeah.
11:21My daughter was like, oh, my gosh, that's gross.
11:24And they actually chased the lady out of the store.
11:28Oh, my God.
11:28Never mind that.
11:29We got to do raw meat, man.
11:30I'm going to have ground beef tartare while I shop at Walmart.
11:36Tape worms by the time she gets to their bar.
11:38That is nasty.
11:39I mean, if you like your meat really, really rare, it's not that nasty.
11:43Well, listen, I like, for instance, I cooked a steak.
11:48Chloe wanted a steak.
11:51Was it earlier this week or late last?
11:53Anyway, Chloe wanted a steak.
11:55So, I hopped up to Publix, and I got a Green Wise ribeye, two pounds, a 32-ounce bone-in ribeye.
12:02It was $40.
12:03It was $25.
12:04It wasn't bad.
12:05It was phenomenal.
12:07It was incredible.
12:08And, by the way, it's on my Instagram.
12:11And I, you know, what I do is I've got, you know, carbon steel pan, and I brown in butter.
12:16I brown each side of the ribeye for, like, two minutes, and then I finish it in the oven.
12:21I put it up to, like, 450, 475, and then I cook it about five, six minutes each side, depending on, you know, to get medium-rare.
12:27So, I cooked this amazing medium-rare steak.
12:30I did an Instagram Live.
12:33So, you can see the steak sizzling, and, like, 100 people, like, sign on it.
12:37I saw it.
12:37And 1,000 people, over 1,000 have now watched the video.
12:40And then I showed a picture of the final product, and I sliced the ribeye, and it is perfect.
12:46A crispy outer brown crust with a beautiful medium-rare.
12:49And people are like, that thing is mooing.
12:51No, it's perfect.
12:52It's perfect.
12:53How do you eat yours?
12:54Well done.
12:55This lady in Valarico, she thought yours was well done.
12:58I like medium-rare.
13:00Yeah, really.
13:00I love medium-rare.
13:02That's the way it should be.
13:03And, look, I like steak tartare, but I don't want to eat ground beef raw.
13:07But, uh, thanks.
13:09Supermarket munch, man.
13:10Supermarket muncher, man.
13:12Oh, that's something.
13:13Yeah, we've got to chew the video with Fester.
13:14Hey, thanks for the call.
13:16That's crazy.
13:17I'll take a few more calls on this.
13:19By the way, if you want to see my sizzling steak and you want to see perfectly cooked ribeye, it's on my Insta.
13:25Again, give me a follow.
13:26My personal Insta is at CertifiedToddSchnitt.
13:30The word certified, and then T-O-D-D-S-C-H-N-I-T-T.
13:34And you'll see all kinds of stuff on my Instagram.
13:37You'll see personal stuff, video shot in my house, in my bedroom, all kinds.
13:40Whoa, whoa, whoa.
13:40So, I love it.
13:42Hey, Coop, just let me clear this board.
13:44No more, because I've got to move on.
13:45Let me grab, uh, oh, Julian's calling in.
13:50My son Julian is on the phone.
13:53Hey, Julian.
13:54Hello.
13:56Good morning.
13:57Hey, how much snow do you guys have up there?
13:59Oh, no, uh, maybe, maybe an inch tops, but the, they already started plowing it off the
14:04pathway.
14:05Oh, but then the pathways actually are now, like, kind of covered again.
14:08Okay.
14:08We'll get a weather report later.
14:09Didn't you guys have, like, eight or nine inches of snow in the past week?
14:13I'd say we got, like, six.
14:14It really depended, because there was a lot of wind, so it either got, like, three inches
14:18somewhere.
14:19And did your chicken nuggets, my buddy who works for a major food company, he's sending you,
14:25like, 200 pounds of chicken nuggets.
14:26Have they arrived yet?
14:28I wasn't able to check mail yesterday, but I'm going to check today.
14:31Yeah, you better check, because it's perishable.
14:33Yeah, it's going to be a big box on dry ice.
14:35All right, so Julian, why are you calling in?
14:38Um, because I used to be embarrassed to go shopping with you, because you would sometimes
14:42open up, like, a big thing of, like, pretzel sticks, or, like, um, honestly, it would be
14:49pretzel sticks, but you would, like, open up the pretzel sticks and start munching down
14:53while we're shopping, and I would just, like, walk quicker away from the cart, because I
14:56just did not want to be seen.
14:57It's an animal.
14:58That's an animal.
14:58Julian, was it the little pretzel sticks, or was it the big pretzel rods?
15:02No, it was, like, the little, it was, like, the four-inch, maybe, pretzel rods or whatever,
15:06like, the little thin ones.
15:07I got you.
15:08All right, Julian, have a great day at school, buddy.
15:10All right.
15:11Will do.
15:11All right.
15:12Later.
15:12Thanks for the weather report.
15:13Two more.
15:14David is in Trinity.
15:16Hello, David, MJ Morning Show.
15:17Hi.
15:23Oh, man, I think it, in your words, it's grotesque.
15:28People walk into the grocery stores, and they don't wash off the carts.
15:34They put their hands on there, then they go and grab a bag of Cheetos with the powder
15:38cheese on their fingers, and they're sticking their fingers in their mouth.
15:42It's utterly disgusting.
15:44Yeah, by the way, when I get a shopping cart, I absolutely, I bring usually my own sanitizers.
15:51Michelle has those, like, hospital-quality ones.
15:57What's the name?
15:58You know, she's got, like, the purple top container, and then, but Michelle has, seriously,
16:03these hospital-grade sanitizing wipes, and I always clean the handles.
16:07I don't know about those, but I know that Cheeto dust is actually called Cheetle, sir.
16:12It's not called Cheeto dust.
16:13Yeah, seriously, sir.
16:14Get with me.
16:15All right.
16:15Thanks, David.
16:16All right.
16:16One more call, then we're going to move on.
16:18Catherine in St. Petersburg.
16:19Catherine, you're on the MJ Morning Show.
16:22Final word on supermarket shopping and eating while you shop.
16:26Good morning, MJ.
16:27How are you?
16:28Morning, Catherine.
16:29We're well.
16:29Thanks.
16:30Okay.
16:31This is going to top everything.
16:32I'm in the store.
16:34I hear this dog going crazy.
16:36I'm like, for one thing, why is a dog in the store?
16:38But anyway, so I had to go over there.
16:40I see this little, like, Taco Bell Chihuahua dog all wrapped up where you would put a baby.
16:46Right.
16:46And the mommy is feeding it a banana.
16:51And she said, oh, this is my little Chiquita.
16:54She loves her nanas.
16:57She's a nut.
16:59Feeding the Chihuahua a banana.
17:01Yes.
17:02That's crazy.
17:03I'm not kidding you.
17:04Sounds like something Fesha used to do with his Chihuahua.
17:06Wow.
17:07Did I just, Coop, what do you have?
17:09Oh, Coop.
17:10A little Taco Bell.
17:12Yoquiero banana.
17:13I love it.
17:16Hey, thanks.
17:17Yoquiero taco, baby.
17:20Thanks for checking in, Catherine.
17:22Thank you for making me laugh every morning.
17:25Spread the word that the MJ Morning Show is the best radio morning show in the market, okay?
17:30I will.
17:31All right, thanks.
17:31I appreciate it.
17:33You should have told that to the lady feeding the Chihuahua her banana.
17:36Banana?
17:37Ma'am, you listen to the MJ Morning Show on Q105?
17:40All right, supermarket munching man.
17:41All right, thank you.