Does anyone use the green tops of leeks? Anyone? I've never seen a recipe that calls for them. Why do grocery stores cut off just the tips of them and sell you the rest? The leek doesn't fit in the crisper, and you end up throwing half of the leek away.

It's probably just that they want to make more money, of course, though I've seen their strategy backfire. Once my sweetie noticed that a leek spanned the edges of the scale while the bulk of it wasn't resting on the scale itself, cheating Safeway out of about two-thirds of the leek's weight.