sicknasty.

i am writing this post mostly as a warning to anyone shopping at publix this week.

{and maybe as a little bit of a rant, as well}

publix has a promotion called "buy theirs, get ours free" in which you purchase the national brand of a particular item and receive the publix brand equivalent for free. normally, this is a good thing.

this week, it was not.

we needed some baked beans for our dinner. we bought bush's brand vegetarian baked beans in a 28 ounce can and received the publix brand for free. we cracked open the publix brand for our dinner tonight and i. was. disgusted.

let's compare:

publix:

looks like discolored mush and smelled horrific.

bush's:

looks like baked beans. smelled like baked beans {kind of what you expect, huh?}.

it was almost as if the publix brand beans were the equivalent of curdled milk. sicknasty.

just a warning if you had baked beans on your publix shopping list this week.

and p.s.-yes. i promptly e-mailed publix customer service...

{i think i'm turning into my grandfather. but they really do need to know about these things... really.}