Clean Your Plate!
The other day (Friday, September 11, 2009), we were returning from Altoona, PA; and we stopped at the mighty Williamsport Weggers (Wegmans).
It’s our first contact with quote-unquote “home.”
The Williamsport Wegmans is much like other Wegmans, laid out pretty much the same, so it’s easy to find stuff.
Head to the right for produce. Take four local Pennsylvania peaches, then head for bananas.
I let our fruit run out before going anywhere, so it doesn’t spoil while we’re away.
Then back to the milk refrigerators.
The Williamsport Wegmans hasn’t yet seen fit to put milk up front like the Rochester Wegmans, but we’ve been there enough to know that.
The Rochester Wegmans, and other local supermarkets, put their skim under light blue caps, but apparently not the Williamsport Wegmans.
Grab a gallon jug of light blue capped milk, but it’s not skim.
I didn’t discover this until I got home.
It’s “Schneider Valley Farms” 2%; apparently a local supplier.
UGH!
We have been drinking skim for years.
After that, anything else is too creamy.
But we can’t throw it out.
My parents survived the Dee-preshin.
“And don’t you ever forget it.
Little children are starving in China.
Clean your plate!”
• “Altoona, PA is the location of Horseshoe Curve (the “mighty Curve”), by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. (I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child.)
• “Wegmans” is a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. Wegmans first dominated the Rochester grocery market, but has since branched south; e.g. Williamsport, PA.
It’s our first contact with quote-unquote “home.”
The Williamsport Wegmans is much like other Wegmans, laid out pretty much the same, so it’s easy to find stuff.
Head to the right for produce. Take four local Pennsylvania peaches, then head for bananas.
I let our fruit run out before going anywhere, so it doesn’t spoil while we’re away.
Then back to the milk refrigerators.
The Williamsport Wegmans hasn’t yet seen fit to put milk up front like the Rochester Wegmans, but we’ve been there enough to know that.
The Rochester Wegmans, and other local supermarkets, put their skim under light blue caps, but apparently not the Williamsport Wegmans.
Grab a gallon jug of light blue capped milk, but it’s not skim.
I didn’t discover this until I got home.
It’s “Schneider Valley Farms” 2%; apparently a local supplier.
UGH!
We have been drinking skim for years.
After that, anything else is too creamy.
But we can’t throw it out.
My parents survived the Dee-preshin.
“And don’t you ever forget it.
Little children are starving in China.
Clean your plate!”
• “Altoona, PA is the location of Horseshoe Curve (the “mighty Curve”), by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. (I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child.)
• “Wegmans” is a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. Wegmans first dominated the Rochester grocery market, but has since branched south; e.g. Williamsport, PA.
posted by BobbaLew at 5:59 AM
2 Comments:
Two signs of "home" we always look for when we're driving up from VA to NY: Wegman's and Kwik Fill. We drive by that Wegman's in Williamsport three times a year, but we've never stopped in. Always wondered if they have the same products we could find in Canandaigua.
Close but different.
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