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Simply Red · 07-12-2011, 07:59 PM

...what food-items do you remember your parents or guardian carting?

I think mine was Milgram's on Seven Hwy. across from Zarda Dairy.

Mom bought Seitz Hot-dogs and Mac-n-cheese loaf.

Also, bagged cereal. We were poor like the dickens.

Can you share your story?

Thank you.

|Zach| · 07-12-2011, 11:21 PM

"United Super" in Blue Springs.

**Rain Man** · 07-12-2011, 11:30 PM

I don't remember my childhood grocery stores, but at various points in my life my "regular" grocery stores have included at a minimum National, Kroger, Schnucks, HEB, Tom Thumb, and King Soopers. I'm sure there were more when I was a kid.

Simply Red · 07-12-2011, 11:33 PM

Rain Man - were you born in Kansas City?

**Donger** · 07-12-2011, 11:34 PM

I have no idea what the name of the store was (probably didn't have one), but I do remember one of the items that my mother picked out: a very large glass container of pickled onions.

Simply Red · 07-12-2011, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

I have no idea what the name of the store was (probably didn't have one), but I do remember one of the items that my mother picked out: a very large glass container of pickled onions.

nice

KurtCobain · 07-12-2011, 11:36 PM

Are you from Independence, red?

listopencil · 07-12-2011, 11:59 PM

Piggly Wiggly. All I remember is that we were in the refrigerated section.

BoltWalt · 07-13-2011, 12:02 AM

7-Eleven no carts but most likely some snack item or ingredient for dinner.

**Rain Man** · 07-13-2011, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Simply Red

Rain Man - were you born in Kansas City?

Nope. In fact, I think I've only been in Kansas City maybe 4 or 5 times in my life, nearly all for Chiefs games.

Simply Red · 07-13-2011, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by KurtCobain

Are you from Independence, red?

No, I'm from Blue Springs from 72 - 92

blaise · 07-13-2011, 04:29 AM

A Publix. I just remember getting a free cookie from the bakery.

Stewie · 07-13-2011, 05:16 AM

A&P in the Prairie Village shopping center. I remember lobsters swimming around in a huge aquarium. I don't remember much about any food in particular.

gpsdude · 07-13-2011, 05:24 AM

A&P and Milgrams's in South KC. My worst was the old Hen House at Blue Ridge and Bannister, man that place really smelled bad

mikey23545 · 07-13-2011, 05:59 AM

Fifty years past, and I can still remember walking up and down the aisles of Sorrel's Red and White Store with my mom and grandma. Red and White's were a chain of small,independently owned grocery stores which have nearly died out...I remember there was a butcher in the rear of the store that looked like a butcher is supposed to look....Starched, pressed shirt, crisp white apron, and called his customers by name when he recited all the specials of the day.

We also shopped quite a bit at the Winn-Dixie store. I don't have any specific memories of it as a child save one. It had a long covered sidewalk which stretched from the front of the building out to almost the end of the parking lot, with parking places along each side of the walk. It looked like something an old fashioned drive-in restaurant would have. I guess it was a convenience for shoppers to carry their groceries out to the car without getting drenched if it was raining. The covered walk was torn down when I was still just a child.

Winn-Dixie would eventually become my first "real" job years later...

Oh, by the way, this was in the small town of New Smyrna Beach, Florida...

eazyb81 · 07-13-2011, 06:00 AM

Bob's IGA on 64th Street in the Northland. I think it was the nice grocery store in that area for a few years, until Hen House and HyVee came in and took over.

I think I may remember it more for the Baskin Robbins that was next to it.

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mikey23545 MVP Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $10015321	Fifty years past, and I can still remember walking up and down the aisles of Sorrel's Red and White Store with my mom and grandma. Red and White's were a chain of small,independently owned grocery stores which have nearly died out...I remember there was a butcher in the rear of the store that looked like a butcher is supposed to look....Starched, pressed shirt, crisp white apron, and called his customers by name when he recited all the specials of the day. We also shopped quite a bit at the Winn-Dixie store. I don't have any specific memories of it as a child save one. It had a long covered sidewalk which stretched from the front of the building out to almost the end of the parking lot, with parking places along each side of the walk. It looked like something an old fashioned drive-in restaurant would have. I guess it was a convenience for shoppers to carry their groceries out to the car without getting drenched if it was raining. The covered walk was torn down when I was still just a child. Winn-Dixie would eventually become my first "real" job years later... Oh, by the way, this was in the small town of New Smyrna Beach, Florida... Last edited by mikey23545; 07-13-2011 at 06:09 AM..
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eazyb81 The Illuminati Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: the road less traveled Casino cash: $9984900	Bob's IGA on 64th Street in the Northland. I think it was the nice grocery store in that area for a few years, until Hen House and HyVee came in and took over. I think I may remember it more for the Baskin Robbins that was next to it.
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