Blooper

Agreed, but I have started buying the Kirkland stuff from Costco because, while it used to suck pretty bad, I think they made some changes to their recipe because it’s now quite good.

Also OP - in case nobody already said it, you gotta shake the hell out of your carton of oat milk each morning. The yummy heavy thickening stuff tends to settle to the bottom.

Wait, don’t you have insurance for the burning down thing?

I agree with this, but also want to point out that gas stations are a poor substitute for a corner grocer or bodega. They are simply too large and require too much land for the function they are serving. Zoning rightfully mandates that they can’t be on the bottom floor of a larger building due to the dangers posed by gasoline and they require lots of space for cars to park.

Essentially, we have forfeited a lot of valuable space to dispensing gasoline and significantly diminished the best features of corner stores by making them serve both functions. I would be curious to see what would happen if gas stations were forbidden from serving anything other than gas in high density areas. I would assume there would be much fewer of them, and each one would be optimized for efficiency to take up as little space as possible. We would also likely see the reemergence of neighborhood bodegas and corner grocers to fill the gap.