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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