<p>emeraldkity4 --</p>
<p>A medical marijuana dispensary bubble!! Gotta love that.</p>
<p>The ad at the top of my page is for Orkin pest control. God knows why it’s displaying that as I don’t think I’ve every searched for anything relating to pests.</p>
<p>Just curious, in our area 95% of the nail salons are operated by Asians. Is that true in other parts of the country?</p>
<p>In my city, there are waaaay too many cupcake places. A bubble in the making. Speaking of cupcakes, I don’t get the fad. The cake is never moist or that flavorful, and the icing is always icky… they look pretty, I grant that. But I just don’t get the fad… and I’m a huge fan of sweets and baked goods.</p>
<p>Aqua… I’m prettty sure being Asian is a requirement to work in the nail industry ;)</p>
<p>“A long time ago there was a Seinfeld episode about fro yo and the product still exists. I think fro yo lovers are ok.”</p>
<p>And they all got gained a lot of weight.</p>
<p>There are so many nail salons & rarely do I know anyone who goes to one,that you have to wonder what else is going on.
[Phillip</a> Martin: Nail Salons and Human Trafficking](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Nail Salons and Human Trafficking | HuffPost Impact)</p>
<p>I LOVE Red Mango.</p>
<p>What I don’t get about the cupcake places is they are sooo expensive. I don’t understand how they can stay in business.</p>
<p>We seem to have an overgrowth of those 1 hr foot massage places. I’m making it a personal mission to quality test each one several times 
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<p>And yes, medical marijuana dispensaries. Good thing there are two pages of ads in the weekly free newspaper with numbers one can call to get an immediate over the phone diagnosis and prescription for said medication.</p>
<p>Maybe they should move the marijuana point of sales into the foot massage places…seems like a match made in heaven.</p>
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<p>Count your blessings with the pizza parlors. You’re in Connecticut. The pizza is GOOD.</p>
<p>I moved to Maryland 15 years ago and haven’t had a decent slice since, except when visiting New York or New England. It would almost be worth living with your winters again just to be able to have good pizza on a regular basis.</p>
<p>We have lots of frozen yogurt places and banks, and there’s a CVS in almost every shopping center, where you can get everything from flu shots to passport photos. I would rather have pizza.</p>
<p>Timely and funny! Visiting S in San Diego, his grad school town, he commented on the endless number of frozen yogurt places, and wondered if this was new. Unlike his dairy intense home state, no ice cream was visible outside of grocery stores. In a moment of inspiration, I realized, there is ice cream in San Diego, but it is called gelato! </p>
<p>However, 30 or so years ago in AZ, there was a frozen yogurt place in every strip mall, and his dad lived on the stuff. Not sure if they still exist in great numbers in the Phx area. </p>
<p>My impression is that being Vietnamese is a requirement to work in the nail industry. At one point NPR or the Atlantic did a piece on it, and I think there is a Vietnamese nail school in LA.</p>
<p>Most nail salons are fine.
Ths a story on NPR two yrs ago.</p>
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<p>You can’t get a prescription for medical marijuana in the same place that dispenses it in my state.
Drs or other medical providers have to write the prescription, which is good for one year. i go to the same N.D. who has been treating our family for 25 years.
Its written on special paper and the dispensary checks it & your id, every time you need more medicine. I generally just buy the butter & make my own.
The Dr. should be comfortable with the diagnosis, in case they need to testify, in court.</p>
<p>Or so that was the way it was before it was legalized for recreational use in my state, but I don’t expect anyone has been arrested for marijuana for awhile, unless they were flagrant about using in public.</p>
<p>We don’t really have frozen yogurt places that Ive noticed. ( I stay out of malls) there are a couple gelato places in our neighborhood & a cupcake place. Also " artisan" doughnut shops & chocolatiers. Actually, my neighborhood could be picked up and set down in the middle of Portlandia & noone would know the difference. ( except we have more new buildings)
:rolleyes:</p>
<p>VeryHappy - Do any of those 30 pizza places serve mashed potato pizza? I interviewed at a grad school in Connecticut and they insisted that I had to try it and that it was a Connecticut thing. I have to say, it was really delicious. </p>
<p>We have one strictly froyo place around here, but we’ve talked about the trend in my lab. A fellow grad student and one of the undergrads were scheming to open a froyo place but were sad to learn that the name they had been inspired by, FroYOLO, was already being used elsewhere. :)</p>
<p>My town never got the obligatory cupcake place - it seems like the bakeries around here are pretty traditional, or so I gather from my experiences at bridal expos. My undergraduate college town though had a cupcake place and I loved it. The cake was so-so but the frosting was great and they put all sort of filling and topping combinations out in the case. It was a few bucks for a huge cupcake, a dollar for a giant cookie so it actually seemed pretty reasonable. They’re still in business several years later. </p>
<p>I ditto whoever mentioned CVS. I can easily think of 5 CVSs with in 10 minutes of my apartment and I think there are actually more.</p>
<p>Emilybee, yeah. You are right.</p>
<p>What is with this Red Mango?
Why is it so good?</p>
<p>Apparently there is one a few miles from me. I will have to check it out.</p>
<p>Processed food is often yummy dstark.
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<p>Emeraldkity4…oh no…</p>
<p>I had frozen yogurt at two different shops today because of this thread…</p>
<p>What can we trust?</p>
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<p>I’m gonna open a super-shop that does all of these, plus pizza and foot massage. 20% off to all CC posters.</p>