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