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> my friends think I am extremely weird for occasionally spending multiple hours at a grocery store "browsing" How do you evaluate your investment in that? (Ju

• saurik 10y ago
  If it helps answer the question, while most people say "you don't look that fat...", I'm technically still "clinically obese", and I used to weight 30 pounds more than I do now... so, yeah: I like food ;P. I also live in California, and thereby ;p have tons of friends who have random dietary restrictions, so it is fun to be able to know about random alternative ingredients. I once bought every single kind of "alternative milk" (soy, rice, almond, cashew, etc.), trying multiple brands of each, in order to determine that the only one I like is Blue Diamond brand unsweetened almond milk. This was actually an insanely high-value investment, and one I've been able to occasionally give as recommendations to friends who were very happy. But yeah; I mean, the only thing it has classically not been considered a "geeky" thing to actually spend hours looking for is clothing, and I'd argue that, minus "most people don't see my food choices but they do see my clothing choices (which is why clothing is a "normal" thing to care about), some of the effects are the same: you get some esoteric knowledge, you can occasionally impress someone you go on a date with, and it provides some level of variety to find and try new things.