Home on the range

Give it a good name, and people will even buy "dust".  No, it's a spicy rub not real Texas dust.  

The company, Texas Pete, is really a North Carolina brand.  Started in 1929 they used the name to invoke thoughts of Tom Mix out on the range.  (see here for a history)

 

Football season at the grocery store

These semi-scary displays were ready at the grocery store for all the chips, pretzels and cheese balls that make up football season.  

 

Strong to the finich

'Cuz I eat my spinach

I found Popeye's secret in the canned vegetable aisle.  Who knew it was still available!

Our past is our future

We found this "new" product in the grocery store yesterday.  I remember (probably about 1960) how excited my mom was to buy wax paper bags for our lunches so that she didn't have to fold up the wax paper every morning.  Now they're a new product with stickers to keep them closed.

After the latest climate change report came out, I've been thinking about how our lives will have to change.  Maybe the clue is to look to our past.

Good bye Kroger

Raleigh has more grocery stores than I've ever seen.  Too many it seems, Kroger is closing all of it's stores in Raleigh, laying off over 1600 workers.  We visited a few weeks before closing and found many empty shelves and very depressed employees.