IN THE "Random stuff you find at Kroger" CATEGORY

Hmmm ... not sure about the "Bitch" line of libations ... I'd be willing to try Bitch Bubbly but I'd prolly have to pass on Bitch Wine.

Seems like a line that someone from a "Real Housewives of" show would come out with.

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BACON-TASTIC NOVELTY

On a recent trip to Richard's Variety Store (one of the greatest stores in Atlanta) I kept noticing a theme emerging ... Bacon. Lots of bacon-ish items. Strange bacon-ey items.

Gummy Bacon, Bacon flavored toothpicks, Bacon Band-aids, Bacon soap and my personal favorite, a bacon car air-freshener!

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Eating Dirt

RIP Dixie Carter - in honor of your gift of Julia Sugarbaker, I post this most eloquent of food related tirades:

(Julia, speaking to the secretary of an editor at the New York Times after reading an article about southerners who eat dirt)

" ... I have been a Southerner all my life, and I can vouch for the fact the we do eat a lot of things down here... and we've certainly all had our share of grits and biscuits and gravy, and I myself have probably eaten enough fried chicken to feed a third world country - not to mention barbecue, cornbread, watermelon, fried pies, okra, and... yes... if I were being perfectly candid, I would have to admit we have also eaten our share of crow, and for all I know - during the darkest, leanest years of the Civil War, some of us may have had a Yankee or two for breakfast. But... speaking for myself and hundreds of thousands of my Southern ancestors who have evolved through many decades of poverty, strife, and turmoil, I would like for Mr. Weaks to know that we have surely eaten many things in the past, and we will surely eat many things in the future, but - God as my witness - we have never, I repeat, [shouts] never eaten dirt!"

STELLA!

Friday afternoon happy hour on a friend's front porch - or since we're in Atlanta, a friend's veranda.

The pollen was low(er), breeze was blowing and Stella was flowing ... not a bad way to end the week!

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