Subj : Chicken Salad
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Fri Jun 16 2023 17:29:02
Hi Dave,
DD> Maybe it's just me but I like something with a bit of "tooth" or
DD> crunch in my chicken/tuna salad. That's why I usually add celery diced
DD> small.
RH> We do too, but I'd not picked up any celery when we did some grocery
RH> shopping earlier in the week. Just got basics, figured celery would
RH> wait until we do a full trip (yet to come).
DD> I've got a celery heart in my cart for a grocery pick-up later today
DD> at Hy-Vee. There is tuna salad in my near future Bv)=
We did some grocery shopping a couple of days ago; a bag of (2) hearts
caame home with us. The remains of the chicken will be made into salad
and stock, with celery going into the salad. Also picked up a couple of
kimmelweck rolls and some sliced roast beef for an easy do supper (beef
on 'weck) with a bit of kale crunch salad.
RH> We usually get the 2/for and a side of fries. We each have a sandwich
RH> and I have a few fries. Steve will have probably 90% or more of them.
DD> I like the Arby's curly fries. Their chicken-bacon-ranch fries can be
DD> a meal by itself. Bv)=
RH> Ranch isn't a flavor either of us care for. The other day Steve picked
RH> up some chicken strips at PDQ; the only sauce they put in was a ranch
RH> dill. It got binned when he got home and I unpacked the bag.
DD> I, otoh, like ranch dressing. It's right up there with bleu cheese
DD> dressing AFAIAC. Diff'rent strokes and all that.
Steve likes bleu cheese dressing but I don't. I'll eat small quantities
of it but for salad dressing, I'd rather have 1,000 Island.
RH> Only grocery store in the town I grew up in was taken out by Hurricane
RH> Irene in 2011. It's in a floodplain, at the headwaters of a NYC
RH> reservoir, serves several smaller towns in the area. NYC was a real
RH> bear about them rebuilding so the local Dollar General and mini
RH> mart/gas station started carrying more basics. It took quite a while
RH> but the grocery store was finally rebuilt--in the same location. At the
DD> We've got some villages around here that have just one grocery/general
DD> store - usually a long established Mom & Pop. The big grocery
DD> operations in Springfield all have a location on the exit routes from
DD> town. They
DD> do a good business in supplying the bedroom communities. But the folks
DD> who live and work in and near the villages are loyal to their "home
DD> town" stores.
We've got several chain stores in/around Wake Forest. When we came,
Lowe's was building their second store in town, also had Harris Teeter
and Food Lion. Latter moved outside of town several years ago--nicer
building but further away from us. Aldi and Lidl built in the last few
years, W-M and Target also have good sized grocery sections. Publix came
in 2016 and was our main store until a couple of years ago. Wegman's
opened up a couple of years ago, basically around the corner from us so
it's our "go to" for 99.5% of our grocery shopping now. We also still
frequent the weekly farmer's market--need to make my list for that when
I finish Fido.
DD> (Niemann Foods) put an new stupormarkup in that inner city area RH>
.... it's busy all the time as it's near two senior high-rise DD>
apartment buildings and much "affordable" DD> housing. And on two DD>
different bus routes.
RH> Good for them for meeting a need!
DD> And turning a tidy profit whilst they're at it.
Gotta make a living somehow. (G)
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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