South Carolina’s tourism office has cataloged a dozen different restaurant takes on the deviled egg. Not one of them stops at paprika. These are the strange ingredients South Carolinians add to eggs that turn an ordinary carton into something worth bragging about. 1. Duke’s Mayonnaise Duke’s Mayonnaise skips a step every other major mayo brand…
A crew of volunteers walks a stretch of Florida beach one last time before summer’s official sea turtle nest tally closes. Not far away, an angler checks the calendar for the first legal day back on the water. These are the things Floridians can’t wait to stop doing once August ends. 1. Hunting Deer With…
H-E-B holds about a quarter of the grocery market in Houston. Kroger holds another fifth, and Walmart trails close behind. Nobody has a strong majority. That fight for your cart helps keep grocery prices lower across the nation’s fourth-largest city. But that’s not the case everywhere in Texas. These are the cities where groceries are…
Eight former Harveys supermarkets started ringing up as Winn-Dixie this summer, from Jacksonville to Ocala. Other Winn-Dixie buildings changed hands too, and not every one of them kept the name. These are the Winn-Dixie changes Floridians are still adjusting to. 1. Winn-Dixie’s New Map Winn-Dixie doesn’t cover nearly as much ground as it used to….
A neighbor two doors down photographs something in your backyard and emails the HOA about it on the spot. The board opens a file and mails a notice to you within the week. These are the things that California neighbors try to report people for even though they’re totally legal. Note: This is general information,…
A shopper at the Aldi off Route 22 near Allentown watches the cashier fly through a full cart in under two minutes, then realizes she’s holding exactly zero bags. That’s the Aldi trade. Aldi backs that speed with shelf prices many Pennsylvania grocery stores can’t touch, but no discount grocer, Aldi included, spells out every…
Toss a dead car battery in a Henderson trash can, and Nevada calls that a crime. State law sets the fine at $100 or more per violation, and it covers every county, not just Clark County. These are the household items Nevada residents legally can’t put in their trash can. Note: This is general information,…
A buyer in Cary spends an hour touring a four-bedroom colonial, flipping every light switch and running the garbage disposal. Her home inspector spends three hours on the same house and never touches either one. He’s underneath it, behind the siding, and inside a termite report nearly every sale in the state requires. These are…
A driver in Sacramento pulls her pickup to the curb on recycling day, eyeing a neighbor’s blue bin stuffed with flattened boxes and aluminum cans. She figures trash day makes everything fair game. California law says otherwise the moment those cans hit the bin. These are the things California residents should never grab off someone…
Think a $300,000 estate costs every heir in Pennsylvania the same tax bill? It doesn’t. A child owes $13,500 on it. A friend named in the will instead owes $45,000, and a surviving spouse owes nothing at all. These are the Pennsylvania inheritance tax rules that catch families off guard. Note: This is general information,…
