The Texas Legislature made chili the official state dish in 1977, by House Concurrent Resolution 18. That settled the paperwork and nothing else. Nearly every dish Texas is known for carries an assumption that falls apart the second it crosses a state line. These are the Texas dishes out-of-staters almost always misunderstand. 1. Chicken-Fried Steak…
There’s a Civil War cemetery in the parking lot of a Publix in Orlando, fenced off and kept up under a condition written into the land sale. Publix opened its first store in Winter Haven in 1930 and runs nearly 900 across Florida today. Many of those stores follow the same blueprint. These are the…
Most Ohioans aren’t trying to make a cashier’s job difficult. But some of the things they do at the register create extra work without them realizing it. These are the customer habits that make an Ohio grocery cashier’s shift harder. 1. Skipping the Order Divider For an Ohio grocery cashier, a thin plastic bar on…
Piggly Wiggly’s corporate office sits in Keene, New Hampshire, and belongs to C&S Wholesale Grocers. Most of the more than 500 stores flying that banner don’t answer to it. A Tennessee Piggly Wiggly runs on decisions one owner makes in one building, which is why two of them a county apart don’t match. These are…
Winn-Dixie pays one rewards point for every $2 spent, and 100 points come to a dollar in groceries. That’s a slow way to earn anything. A faster way exists. These are the secrets Winn-Dixie employees wish Floridians knew. Sale Tags’ Rewards-Card Requirement Winn-Dixie hangs the same yellow sale tag over every weekly special, and the…
Every ShopRite belongs to Wakefern Food Corp., a cooperative of independent operators sharing one banner and one Price Plus system. Your Price Plus card scans at all of them. But what it does at the register depends on steps you take before you get there. These are the ShopRite Price Plus traps that cost New…
Shoppers 55 and older made an average of 10 cash payments a month in 2025, against two for shoppers 18 to 24, according to Federal Reserve survey data. WinCo doesn’t take credit cards at all. But the places where that model lands hardest on an older shopper aren’t the ones anybody warns you about. These…
Three elected trustees run each of Ohio’s 1,308 townships, the Ohio Township Association told state lawmakers in February 2025. No county commissioner sits in that room. These are the decisions an Ohio township trustee makes without asking anyone above them. Note: This is general information, not legal advice. Ohio Revised Code provisions covered here are…
Order breakfast at a landmark spot near Erie, and the sign out front spells the word D-I-N-O-R. That’s not a typo. These are the things a Pennsylvania diner will do that a chain restaurant hardly ever does. 1. The Handwritten Ticket Most Pennsylvania diners run on a handwritten ticket. The cook changes that order however…
Meijer’s app puts more than $1,000 in mPerks savings in front of shoppers every week. There’s work you need to do on your end, though. mPerks can help you save money, but no rewards program is perfect. These are the mPerks rules we think cost Kentuckians the most at Meijer. 1. Skipping the Digital Clip…
