I don't know Winn-Dixie's history during segregation, but they do exist all over the Carolinas, and they're definitely on the dive-y side -- so it wouldn't surprise me if it were true.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Jan 24, 2005 9:36:29 am PST #96 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2005 9:37:39 am PST #97 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Susan W. - Jan 24, 2005 9:37:53 am PST #98 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
The Winn-Dixie in my hometown is nicer than the Piggly-Wiggly, but it's a newer store. And the Pig isn't exactly what you'd call a high-falutin' upscale chain.
Kathy A - Jan 24, 2005 9:38:33 am PST #99 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For frozen pizza Chicago-style, Sara Lee makes a good deep dish pizza (I've found them at the Sara Lee discount stores in the past), with gooey cheese and flaky crust.
Kat - Jan 24, 2005 9:38:41 am PST #100 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Ah, Food Lion. When we went to the beach, that was always our shopping choice. For no good reason except cheap.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 24, 2005 9:42:49 am PST #101 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The best pizza I've ever had is the stuffed spinach pizza at Giordano's in Chicago. Runner up would be the plain cheese pizza at Little Steve's in Boston. Locally, I go with vegetarian pizzas at Memphis Pizza Cafe or Pizza Chef (Jonesboro). Which I think I will do right now, as this pizza talk has me starving.
lori - Jan 24, 2005 9:42:56 am PST #102 of 10002
Hi new thread! Love the Ani-inspired title.
And gotta love pictures of my doggies. sara, that wistful one looking out the car window was on a roadtrip through Utah in winter. She was wiling away the hours looking out the window. No doggies or cows along that stretch to get her excited. Our dogs are great roadtrip dogs.
I shopped at Winn-Dixie and Publix when I was stationed in Florida for a couple months.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 24, 2005 9:46:05 am PST #103 of 10002
What is even happening?
broccoli does not belong on pizza.I hear you, Kat. That is what I said, then I tried it. I think it was actually broccoli and garlic. It was at a dive-y little Italian restaurant and pizzaria near my college. The broccoli goes on the pizza raw, so it still has some tooth to it, after baking. It was very tasty.
Alibelle - Jan 24, 2005 9:47:17 am PST #104 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
1960: After reading Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery, J.E. Davis begins his support of black colleges. Through the subsequent years, Winn-Dixie supports Bethune-Cookman College, the National Council of Negro Women, Rust College, Florida Memorial College, the Tuskegee Institute, and many others.
This was the only tidbit that tied it to race at all, in that link. I don't think I'm crazy, but I can't remember where I got my information from. And it's not like they would probably advertise which type of store they were in a nice reflective look back, like that. But this was the deep south in the early part of the last century, and there definitely was segregation. So, I don't know.
broccoli does not belong on pizza.
Yes, it does, if it's next to chicken on a pizza from East End pizza. Other places, no, not so much.
Betsy HP - Jan 24, 2005 9:47:38 am PST #105 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I loved the name Piggly-Wiggly. Hearing genteel elderly ladies say "Oh, I must stop off at the Piggly-Wiggly for butter." It could only have been better if it had been "The Eight-Ball".