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On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 10:17:15 -0400, jmcquown >
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>On 6/5/2021 8:42 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 23:20:19 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> Meanwhile, Food Lion, which was on the other side of the old Publix
>>> building, is closing up shop. They've moved to a new location in what
>>> used to be a Bi-Lo, which declared bankruptcy. (Never shopped there).

>>
>> Bi-LO was across the parking lot from where I lived in the hotel in
>> Greenville. Hated it. I'd go in there pretty much every night
>> after work and left empty handed nothing most nights. There was
>> just nothing there I wanted to buy, cook, or eat. I did eat a lot
>> of rock shrimp, though. That's all I remember from Bi-Lo in 2
>> months.

>
>Right before the Bi-Lo closed the man I work for told me they were
>having a clearance sale so he bought a lot of meat there. "Select" or
>"Choice" grade. IOW, cheap crappy meat.
>
>> Then I moved to that "luxury apartment" (@ $2,800/month -
>> ****ers) was halfway between Publix and Bi-Lo, so Publix it was.
>> Fried chicken, cottage ham, Taylor pork roll, uglyripe tomatoes,

>
>Publix does make good fried chicken! I've found the produce selection
>to be very good, even if (at one point) no one seemed to know what a
>leek is.
>
>> ... Oh, those horrible Florida avocodos.

>
>They sell avocados from Mexico these days. Haas/hass?
>
>> And that's reemember about
>> Publix. Other than there was Fox's Pizza Den in the same complex
>> and that was pretty good. And that's all the food memories of I
>> have of S.C.
>>
>> Oh wait - I "gave" the butcher at the Fresh Express(?) grocery store
>> a heart attack because the fat-ass chased me out of the store with
>> a knife

>
>There's got to be more to that story!
>
>Jill

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