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My closest grocery store is a Publix, and I've come to appreciate their consistently friendly and helpful staff!

With a good melon.

Ribeye! Mmm, craving one right now, actually.

For local barbecue, I love Wiley's Championship BBQ in Savannah, GA. But don't get me started on my favorites in Texas!

Right now, it's roasting.

I have a big mug with French writing on the side. It survived college and 10 years of moving around since then!

Ribeye!

Eggs & lox!

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@colossus05, you're right! Parker's in Georgia is wonderful. I was thinking about what convenience stores I've encountered on road trips and completely forgot about my in-town favorite. I picked up some broiled flank steak and curried chicken salad the last time I stopped there.

Weirdly, my favorite is nachos, now that I've left Texas. The Mexican places around my current home favor a mildly spicy cheese sauce instead of a good coating of longhorn cheddar and topped with a jalapeño slice.

I would love to have my grandmother's recipe for pickled crabapples. More than that, I wish we still had the family pea. I don't mean a recipe for peas. I mean the actual family pea that traveled through the years from Virginia to Texas by way of Tennessee and then got lost after my grandfather passed away in 1985. Now that heirloom vegetables fascinate me, it's such a shame that my own family's heirloom is gone.

I make a mean Italian cream cake, but the key lime cake that was the groom's cake at my wedding is the best I've tasted recently.