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re: What's your earliest memories of grocery shopping?
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:51 pm to Zap Rowsdower
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:51 pm to Zap Rowsdower
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prize egg machine with a chicken inside of it that started clucking and flapping its wings when your prize was coming out.
Damn, I can’t believe someone else mentioned this
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Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:54 pm to CatsGoneWild
quote:Denham Springs A&P circa 1978. Right about where the Tractor Supply is located now. Huge arse store (from my young vantage point).
earliest memories of grocery shopping
After that, my mom started making groceries at the new Winn Dixie (behind the old Sonic and basically in front of the current DSPD).
Several years later--maybe 1984ish--The Real Superstore opened. I was in awe at the selections. Our family stayed with Winn Dixie, but ever so often we'd have to pass through the Superstore for something.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:59 pm to FCP
My parents buying me Star Wars figures at TG&Y.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:03 pm to CatsGoneWild
Dropping off the 6 pack of 1 litre coke bottles before grabbing the buggy. I’d ride on the front of the buggy facing backwards waiting to get to the cereal aisle to see what cool toys would be in the cereal boxes.
The checkout was all entered by hand, no scanners.
That and being left in the car if my mom didn’t want to deal with my arse.
The checkout was all entered by hand, no scanners.
That and being left in the car if my mom didn’t want to deal with my arse.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:05 pm to the paradigm
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Damn, I can’t believe someone else mentioned this
Pretty sure this was it. For some reason I remember it being Flintstone/Hannah Barbera Cartoons themed with the chicken but that could have very well been a separate machine and I’m thinking of both of them.
Rumor has it that the guy who owned the building the grocery store was in still has it in storage.
This post was edited on 3/26/18 at 8:25 am
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:06 pm to Buck Magnum
Piggly Wiggly. My mother would tell us to go pick out cereal. She knew that would get us out of her hair for a while as we weighed the taste of the cereal as adjusted by the quality of the free toy inside.
Coco Pebbles (yum) with crappy stickers. Or bland-arse Alpha Bits with a cool baking powder powered submarine! Decisions, decisions.
Coco Pebbles (yum) with crappy stickers. Or bland-arse Alpha Bits with a cool baking powder powered submarine! Decisions, decisions.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:06 pm to FCP
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my mom started making groceries
I still don’t get this one. My wife’s country arse family says this and I’m like, “you ain’t made shite!”
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:12 pm to CatsGoneWild
Very young, sitting in the cart seat. Back then the grocery store was a corner store down the road from the neighborhood, not the large stores like today.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:20 pm to CatsGoneWild
Sneaking sour cherry balls from the bulk bins around 4 years old.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:23 pm to CatsGoneWild
Schwegmann's Kids Week was the shite.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:32 pm to Kafka
She usually shopped at A&P in Opelousas. Winn Dixie wasn't there yet.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:38 pm to CatsGoneWild
I remember Oak Villa with the deli and smelling the fried chicken and thinking it smelled so good, but never getting any. We also went to the Real Superstore and did they have calculators on the buggy handles? And you had to pay a quarter to use one? I could be wrong on those. I was pretty young. The Albertsons on the corner of Sherwood and Florida with the video rental, I remember if I was good my grandma would let me get a movie. I remember the Winn Dixie on Greenwell Springs, is it still a piggly wiggly? Those were all with my grandma... and then I vaguely remember Schwegmans with my parents, because we lived on the south side of town. I remember when the super Kmart opened and thinking it was the coolest thing that they had it all in one store, and that’s where I bought my first CD. Alanis Morisette, and my mom took it back when she read the lyrics in the little booklet. Then soon after that the Walmart supercenter opened on oneal, and we never went back to the Kmart.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:43 pm to tilco
quote:Yeah, it's not something we said either. I actually picked it up back when I was working on a shrimp boat out of Venice. That's a phrase the Venice/Buras folks would use for going grocery shopping. Not sure why that particular phrase came back to me tonight.
making groceries
They would go "by" the store (not "to"), and they would "make groceries" (not "shop for groceries"). Of course, that was a rather mild idiosyncrasy compared to some of their other cultural mannerisms.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:47 pm to Zap Rowsdower
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:50 pm to CatsGoneWild
Delchamps on belle chase highway with my mom in Gretna.
This post was edited on 3/25/18 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:57 pm to Zap Rowsdower
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For some reason I remember it being Flintstone/Hannah Barbers Cartoons themed with the chicken but that could have very well been a separate machine and I’m thinking of both of them.
There was one of those too. Last time I visited my mama, we went out to eat and they still had one at the restaurant.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 11:08 pm to CatsGoneWild
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earliest memories of grocery shopping?
Posted on 3/25/18 at 11:51 pm to CatsGoneWild
I used to steal cigarettes and give it to my schizophrenic uncle.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 12:18 am to Buck Magnum
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TG&Y.
Wow, the TG&Y. As a 8 year old kid there was nothing in the world you needed that couldn't be found within the walls of a TG&Y. Loved that store.
I was probably in my twenties before I realized that TG&Y was actually not an acronym for toys, guns and yo-yo's.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 12:35 am to HaveMercy
Being like 9 and mt cousin teaching me a new word to say in the Spanish supermarket.
La Migra was not a word that my grandmother expected me to shout in the produce section
La Migra was not a word that my grandmother expected me to shout in the produce section
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