yay for locally owned stores!

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Okay, there's this grocery store called Lewis Jones.  Nana used to shop there all the time, but it closed down about twelve years ago.  What I didn't know was that they had two locations, and they only closed the one.  When I discovered this I decided I would go there next time I needed a few things, even though it's a tad out of my way, simply for nostalgia.  And when I entered the store it was like walking into, into, I don't know, someplace cool. :)  They had so many things I have been searching for forever, and a much better selection of organic products than the big name places like Publix and Winn-Dixie.  

For example, tomato paste in a tube.  It's one of things that you wonder why the hell didn't they think of that in the first place, because you only use a spoonful at a time, and then you have to find a container that's not too huge that won't stain.  It's a bitch.  This you just squeeze out as much as you need, screw the cap back on and throw it in the fridge!  And organic canned tomatoes in a glass jar with a lid!  Brilliant!   And best of all, an entire case dedicated to imported cheese!  No more domestic parmesan for me!  I am in heaven!  And they even had those little marinated mozzarella balls, what are they called?  Whatever.  And I found pancetta.  Pancetta, people; I have truly searched and searched, and asked the Hair Nets behind counters and never found it, some of them didn't even know what it was.  Why did I never know that this place was still in business?  Why?  Oh, the irony!  Now that I'm not staying here I find the perfect store; great selection, reasonable prices and locally owned!  

But that's okay, because Atlanta has Trader Joe's.  :D

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