I gots me a Piggly Wiggly t-shirt!!!

[MonkeyFunk]

A friend from the deep, dark reaches of the American south sent me a care package today. It contains a Piggly Wiggly t-shirt!!!

You see, to those of us who've only lived in the Union states, the Piggly Wiggly is a mythical place. I first heard the name in "Driving Miss Daisy" and thought it was a joke. It gasted my flabber to learn it was real.

So now I have proof that I can wear proudly.

I also got a duct-tape wallet and some sort of home-made foodstuff in a jar. I think it's either fig preserves or possum livers.

[Parche]

1. Piggly Wiggly

There was one near Minot AFB when i was stationed there.....
they even had.........................QUISP


yum

:woohoo:
:woohoo:

:hi:

[blockhead]

16. when you were here, there were three of them.

:)

[skygazer]

2. Mmmmm..... possum livers

I shopped at Piggly Wiggly when I lived in Mobile for a year - I couldn't resist the name. :rofl:

[stuntcat]

11. their Random Organs Department

There's a Piggly Wiggly down the street from my Grandma's old house and the last time I was in there I found a section at the end of the refrigerator'ed wall that had the pigs' feet and some other gory stuff I couldn't even look at :scared:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Aw, I ain't been in a Piggly Wiggly in 42 years

:(



The coolest-named store in those parts, though, was this:







That's no Photoshop. I've been in that sumbitch. :D



Okay, technically not. That one's in Dumas, Ark. and I was in the one in Warren. But the sentiment's the same. :P

[darkstar]

4. Howdy Neighbor!

:hi:

[PeaceNikki]

5. I shop The Pig SEVERAL times per week.

I am there at the deli for lunch, deli for dinner and every grocery trip. They know me by name there. I quite literally JUST got home from there.

I deserve a personalized parking spot.

I'd have gotten you a shirt eons ago had I known the mythical nature it represents to you. I can hook you up with Piggly Wiggly canvas shopping bags if you're hankering for more Pig nostalgia.

Piggly Wiggly... SHOP THE PIG!! :patriot:



OH... and did you know Chicago area has "Moo & Oink"?

[stuntcat]

17. It used to be my place!

Where I grew up, it was a few blocks away. I go there every time I go back to my old town now.

[Sequoia]

6. Hey, I just saw one for sale

http://www.stylinonline.com/pigglywiggly.html

[MonkeyFunk]

7. nice!

Does the pig mascot have a name? I'm considering building a shrine. He has replaced Hello Kitty in my dreams.

[malta blue]

8. he would be Mr. Pig

http://www.pigglywiggly.com/cgi-bin/customize?pigwig_characters.html

[TheCentepedeShoes]

9. Piggly Wiggly

boy, that was a long time ago.

[YDogg]

10. the funniest sign i ever saw was in front of the piggly wiggly near where i lived during college

someone had spray painted a sign outside the door to read: "Pig Pricks / 39¢ a Pound"

Lame, but I still laugh about that.

:rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

12. That's funny

everyone knows you can't find pig pricks for under $1.50/lb

[Taverner]

13. What is Piggly Wiggly?

Is it a burger joint?

[unsavedtrash]

14. Southern grocery store

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHtOo7YMMUw

[Taverner]

15. Ah - kind of like Winn-Dixie

Or Chik-Fil-A or Whattaburger - a Southern Chain that doesn't represent in California :)

Do you have Trader Joes out there?

[abq e streeter]

18. Had P-W supermarkets in New Mexico when I first moved here in '72

Hank and Lewie Wickham, who later became friends of mine( played with Hank for awhile in the 90's) did a local commercial singing what I assume was an original song extolling the virtues of shopping at Piggly Wiggly while standing in the aisle at one of the stores. I wish to hell I had a copy of that commercial. Wonder if Hank or Lewie have one somewhere...(they probably wouldn't admit it if they did)

[eyesroll]

19. We can shop the Pig in Wisconsin, believe it or not.

http://www.shopthepig.com/

[NC_Nurse]

20. We've got them. They seem to mostly inhabit small towns...like Family

Dollar does. There used to be a joke around here that three of our groceries ( Big Star, Harris Teeter, and Piggly Wiggly)
had been bought and merged into one by Dolly Parton. The name of the new stores was:

























Big Wiggly Teeters. ;-)

[Captain Angry]

21. Esoteric...

Every time I see Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I smile. One of the trucks that the military hid their stuff in, was a Piggly Wiggly truck. I seem to remember seeing the store when I was younger and lived in Alabama. So since then, the movie brings back the memories.

[Maddy McCall]

22. My dad calls it the "hoggly woggly."

In case you wondered.

:P

[MonkeyFunk]

23. That's what my dad calls my mom!

Mean old bastard, he is.

[AngryAmish]

24. There are Piggly Ws in Wisco

One in Sparta if I recall correctly.