jf <3
― your voice of treason, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ We're here for you.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ended up not going to the flea market; I couldn't wake up my husband in time to get there. (However, it was the best sleep he's had in weeks.) We're going to try to get to a different one on New Year's Eve morning. We did find a big bag of cans behind the shed--we'll take that and some more copper that we got off of the house in tomorrow.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
Just ordered $155 worth of groceries for 108 bucks--thank u for promotions, grocery service that rhymes with mesh protect!!
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
- had lunch at chinese place we often eat at in the evenings- lunch = different menu, different staff, different tablecloths- felt like we stumbled into a parallel universe
- washing machine was making horrible noise, minimum repair callout charge was £80- groped around inside drum, pulled out tiny (tiny!) magnet that was stuck to the wall- machine now (fingers crossed) making only the normal noises, without spending £80- no idea where the magnet came from, hope it was not an important component of anything
- best wishes to you, jf
― brony island baby (case spudette), Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
agh. I give up. What rhymes with "mesh protect"?
― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
fresh? select? reject? erect?
― Aimless, Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
Flesh Erect
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
Creche Reject
David Koresh
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
That's it. David Koresh delivered a truck load of sale groceries to Laurel.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
he lives!
― river wolf, Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
I hope she got some Waco Bits.
― jaymc, Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Oh. We don't have that brand here. I don't think. We have one that rhymes with glee squad.
― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
best jaymc joke in some time!
― league of women voters, Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
We have Pubix--Where Fucking is a Pleasure.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Thursday, 29 December 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Superfresh - StupidfreshAcme - SmackmeKing Sooper - King Stupid
Piggly Wiggly and Harris Teeter kind of write themselves imo.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 29 December 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
When I worked at Food Lion we got a shipment of bags that said Food Loin.
― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 29 December 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
irl lols over here
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
You guys have supermarket chains called Piggly Wiggly and Harris Teeter? o_0
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
In the southern US, yup.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/wp-content/uploads/Piggly_Wiggly.jpg
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
We had Piggly Wiggly in northern Minnesota.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://agentscott.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/harris-teeter.jpg
That lady looks sad to be going into Harris Teeter.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
Harris and Teeter were the names of the founders.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
She's sadder to be wearing those pants.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
Piggly Wiggly is also found in the Midwest (and used to be in the West as well before they sold off some stores). Harris Teeter is in the mid-Atlantic.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
Also the southeast.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
What is the naughty name for Harris Teeter that comes to your mind? My people always called it "Harry Peter," but I just realized it also sounds lie "teat."
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
Piggly Wiggly was founded on September 6, 1916 at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis, Tennessee, by the American entrepreneur Clarence Saunders. It was the first true self-service grocery store, a concept patented[3] by Saunders in 1917. Because customers could choose their products directly, packaging and brand recognition became very important.
There's a replica of the first Pig at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis. When I worked for a grocery wholesaler in the 80s, one nickname was Hoggly Woggly. #uselesstrivia
― William (C), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
i have several honeymoon photos in the parking lot of a piggly wiggly in wisconsin because we forgot to pack toothbrushes and toothpaste.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/263755_10150256624544609_548884608_6964796_5466354_n.jpghttp://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/271112_10150256624714609_548884608_6964801_4973362_n.jpg
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
nbd just poppin off tomorrow for a few days to spend new year's here:
http://www.agolfingexperience.com/uploadphoto/Lough%20Erne-3.JPG
― twice banned gabbage is death (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
i will not be bringing my clubs tho ;_;
OMG Hoggly Woggly
xp nice - it looks lie you're lighting a roach in the 2nd pic
xp again - wow
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
Where is that, d? It's gorgeous.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
lough erne, up north. v much looking forward to it, renting a chalet with friends for a couple days.
― twice banned gabbage is death (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/263755_10150256624544609_548884608_6964796_5466354_n.jpg
holy christ this is awesome
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
apropos of nothing rly i just want youse to look at how str8 happy this sumbitch right here is
http://www.eatmedaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/pig-head.jpg
― twice banned gabbage is death (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 30 December 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
after the relative horror of food lion (sorry jesse) and other nc stores, my friends refer to h-t as taj ma teeter
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
In Greensboro, NC there was one VERY LARGE Harris Teeter* (at Friendly Center, on Friendly Ave.), which some friends called Taj Ma Teeter.
Food Lion wasn't bad, IMO. Some were, some weren't. There was a super shitful Harris Teeter in Greensboro (on Summit Ave.) that made Food Lion look opulent by comparison. It later became a Sav Yr Monee or something like that.
*When I moved to Chicago, I really missed the palatial, abundant Southern supermarkets. They're catching up in some parts of town, but it took some time before the feeling of austerity subsided. I don't now if Jenny (or Jeff) would agree, but I know a couple other NC transplants who did.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
You know the Southern grocery store name I really love? Winn-Dixie.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
Walmart is putting the hurt on so many of these southern chains. There's one Winn-Dixie near here, over in Alabama...couple of Pigs, one Big Star.
― William (C), Friday, 30 December 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
nbd just poppin off tomorrow for a few days to spend new year's here:
I want to go to there
― river wolf, Friday, 30 December 2011 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
The weather will not be as good as in the posted photo.
― Aimless, Friday, 30 December 2011 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know what happened, I got in a cab intending only to bypass a slow train, and found myself giving my home address. Door to door service, baby.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Friday, 30 December 2011 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
live has bowled me a few googlies this week. where is the girl advice/tmi thread please?
― N1ck, Friday, 30 December 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
<i>*When I moved to Chicago, I really missed the palatial, abundant Southern supermarkets. They're catching up in some parts of town, but it took some time before the feeling of austerity subsided. I don't now if Jenny (or Jeff) would agree, but I know a couple other NC transplants who did.</i>
The Jewel on Ashland/north of Diversey is comparable. Not as big as the super mega super megamarkets, but almost there. Too bad we always use peapod now anyway.
― Jeff, Friday, 30 December 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
I don't prefer HTML, it prefers me.
just use brackets instead of carrots, it would have worked.
― Z S, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link