September 10, 2004
SOB of the week
Casa Peña on 17th Street betwen R and Corcoran. I bestow this weekly dishonor on Casa Peña with a heavy heart, since I once enjoyed the place. What's better for rescuing a convenience store from dreary, flourescent sameness than blasting catchy latin music at full volume? I rarely walk out of the place so much as I do a little white-boy salsa shimmy.
But yesterday, I got burned. Instead of braving the line at the nearby Soviet Safeway, I ducked into the Casa for milk. Not content to stick with the healthy stuff, I checked out the massive beer selection and ended up shimmying out with the milk and a pint bottle of Taj Mahal Lager ("brewed for connoisseurs").
Snacking at home 20 minutes later, I poured myself a tall glass of milk, only to find that it had turned. Lovely. $2 down the drain, literally.
Several hours later, I opened the beer, only to find that it too was horribly skunked.
What the bloody hell? Do they have anything that hasn't gone bad?
So until they get their act together, I'm sticking with stores that play Muzak and have relatively fresh products.
Posted by rj3 at September 10, 2004 1:05 PM
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