#Heb

[puffball920]

Okay...... I caved, and I blame myself for listening to time machine many times again-

I'm only like 3 years too late finally drawing them, I mean what

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The them! The boys!

1/2

Unsure about Heart's design, but I'm loving Mind's turtleneck hehe

[scwambledeggs]

GGEZ................ *nonchalant*

[hamletthedane]

extremely niche meme for the five Texans who follow me

[floralcavern]

Everytime I try to explain HEB to my non-Texan friends, they don’t understand the hype. THIS IS FOR YOU.

[yourfavaschips]

dean winchester from supernatural !

couldn't help it. i had to add the boys™

[pinkbirddiaries]

This is going to sound stupid and maybe I should go to bed but… where do you grocery shop?

See I’ve only ever lived in Texas and Italy so I’ve never been to an American grocery store that wasn’t HEB or Walmart and if you live in Texas you don’t go to Walmart if they sell it at HEB.

So where does everyone else buy their groceries from? Not including Walmart. This is a serious question

[zaza-art]

Stores!

Publix | Walmart

Safeway | Target

Kroger | HEB

Sam’s Club | Costco

I’m going to Reblog with versions with the store name :) feel free to request more! I’ve got a few more I’m going to make soon

[bittyfromquotev]

Back in the US!

There’s some random guy at this HEB who looks more like Steve than Jack Black ever will

[mannyblacque]

🏳️‍🌈

[supernaturalkickparty]

Here we go again

At the heb in Sinton.

Unfuckingbelievable

[jadeestebanestrada]

I'm in H-E-B's coffee aisle, and a white woman, late 60s, is in an electric cart in front of the coffee I'm thinking about purchasing. She looks up at me, then sighs.

Me: So many choices.

Lady: No kiddin'! I don't know whether to get small box of these [Hill Country Fare] Dark Roast K-cups or a big box of [Café Bustelo K-cups] these. I mean aside from the quantity, I don't know difference.

Me: Would you like an opinion?

L: Yes, I would!

Me: Well, Café Bustelo is an espresso-style coffee. It's a quick boost. I've seen it in most hostels and economy hotels across Europe. It gets you up and out of the hotel so you can go see the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa with lots of energy. Grab a second or third shot throughout the day as needed.

Hill Country Fare's Dark Roast Coffee is a rounder, more continous arc of alertness from like about 9:30 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. So a quick boost or about three hours worth of heighted alertness. To me, that's the difference.

[She grabs the Bustelo]

L: Well, ya don't have to tell me twice!

Me: They also have the instant packets around here somewhere.

L: Oh, I like the instant! The less work the better.

Me: Same. Here they are. I use these packets when I'm traveling. Again, it's that nice boost.

L: Thank you!

Me: My pleasure.

[A pause]

L: I don't suppose you know where the cream cheese is?

Me: (Laughing) I think it's over here in the next aisle. I'll check and come right back.

[When I return, her cart is facing the opposite direction]

L: I'm coming! I just have to figure out how to turn this thing around!

[Later]

Thank you so much!

Me: No problem!

L: Can I tell you something? Oh, this might be too much information.

Me: Sure.

L: Well, you know how you can have the worst day ever, and then later on, it turns out to be the best day ever?

Me: I know exactly what you mean.

L: Well, earlier today, I was at Sprouts, and I'd gotten all my groceries, and when I got to the cashier, I tried to use my SNAP card, and it wouldn't work. Something about the numbers were off. And I told her, "Nothing has changed on this card! It should work!" Well, they sent me to customer service and they got it figured out.

When I got back in line, there was a woman in front of me with a fair amount of groceries, and she offered to let me go ahead of her. I told her, "No, it's OK. She's got all my items totaled up. I can wait, but thank you very much." Then, the woman turns to the cashier and says, "Put this woman's grocery bill on my bill."

I couldn't believe it! This woman put my $71 grocery bill on her tab! That was the best thing that happened to me today!

Me: That's amazing!

L: Isn't it? And now you're the second best thing to happen to me today. 'Cause now I have a new coffee to try.

[This encounter totally made my day.]

[elalyn]

Okay, I’m here to complain about something niche and kind of stupid.

So, I’ve lived in Texas my whole life, which means I’ve shopped at HEB for most of my life (since we transitioned away from the Commissary, but that’s a whole other story). Along with that, I’ve also been a vegetarian a large portion of my life, for medical reasons; and that, in combination with having lived in Texas, can make finding good, relatively cheap, fast(ish) food really hard.

Some time ago, HEB released a line of Texas-themed sushi rolls, including the roll in question, the Lost Maples Roll. See, I tried this roll a couple of weeks ago on a road trip, and I thought it was really good. It’s not, like, life-changing or anything, but it’s filling and it tastes good. The inclusion of a vegetarian option is actually super rare, especially in sushi, but also in any Texas-based establishments, which makes this roll actually really special for a number of reasons.

Which brings me to today’s issue. I recently came across this Reddit post while looking at food options. It really kind of pissed me off in a way that’s hard to describe. I can’t respond to every comment here, but I’d like to address some of the big ones I saw.

This is just Korean gimbap: Kind of, yeah. I’m Korean, we don’t mind. Weird that you do, though.

I asked for sushi, where’s the meat?: On every single other option in the store. HEB is in Texas, there is not a universe in which you walk into the store and don’t find 80 more meat options of whatever you’re looking for. You might want fish, but not everyone can have that. Don’t get pressed because there’s a singular option for people with varied diets.

This is just a salad: Have you ever eaten a salad? A collection of vegetables a salad does not make. Believe it or not, there are actual salads at this same store, all but one of which have some form of meat in them.

And the one that was the closest to being reasonable:

This is too expensive: See, this is where it gets kind of tricky, because “expensive” is a relative term. For some people, myself included, a nine dollar sushi roll is fairly expensive to buy consistently. However, this is not the kind of thing you pay for consistently, it’s a treat. You get it when you feel like you deserve it for some reason or another, not every day. Yeah, it’s pretty expensive for a consistent purchase, that’s why it’s not.

There was another variation of this comment, which was slightly less understandable and more so rude:

I’m not paying nine dollars for no meat: If you’re not willing to pay nine dollars, that’s entirely valid, but don’t put it on vegetarianism. While it is a fact that the vegetarian and vegan diets spend, on average, less money than an omnivorous one, that fact does not hold true with eating out. Most restaurants with vegetarian options either: A. Price them higher than most standard options, or; B. Give a smaller portion of food. This is especially true in the fast food space. For example, there is one place within 15 minutes of me that has a veggie burger any cheaper than 10$, while the standard burgers are normally 7$ or less, with substantially more options. Along with that, most vegetarian and vegan exclusive restaurants have higher prices because of low demand, so they need higher prices to keep themselves afloat with what they have. As a vegetarian I can confirm that going out to eat is a massive debacle, and way more expensive than it has to be. All of this circles around to say, it’s not fair to say “this is too expensive for meatless” when it’s takes like this that make meatless options so expensive as is.

Now, just to explain why I’m so pressed about all of this instead of just letting it go, is that it’s not fair to us. Although there is a loud portion of us that do, the majority of vegetarians and vegans don’t really care what you’re eating. You can have meat all you want, as long as you don’t overstep boundaries. However, when people go on the internet and bash one of the very few options we have , it isn’t fair to us. Our diets are not entirely our choice; I know mine, specifically, is medically correlated, but plenty of us have personal, philosophical, or religious reasons.

TLDR: please don’t insult other people’s limited food options. If it’s not for you, walk away, but don’t take away options from people who don’t have many anyway.

[geraldthebroccoliman]

this bottle of rosemary is older than all of my brothers

holy shit it expired 5 years ago 💀💀

[yourfavaschips]

Yorick from League of Legends

Yorick from League of Legends would be H‑E‑B Thin Ghost Pepper Ranch Potato Chips!

[fireheartedpup]

Haven't been able to get tortillas from HEB for a WHILE, so I asked someone when they sell out.

Apparently they stop at 7, and he said to come Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday because they're usually less busy.