How long do you figure it takes to stop looking like you just moved to North Carolina? Longer than you’d think. New neighbors unpack, learn the back roads, and still out themselves at the first dusting of snow. These are the everyday habits that mark a lifelong North Carolinian, and they trip up everyone who…
Think you can’t be fooled about junk food? Don’t bet your last Dorito on it. In honor of National Junk Food Day today, here’s a two truths and a lie game for you. Each round below serves up three statements, two of them true and one of them a lie. You tap the fake. How…
Think that old red gas can in the corner of your garage is just taking up space? It’s doing worse than that. Gasoline goes stale in months, and a few other things in your garage surely slipped from being junk to being a problem. These are the things sitting in South Carolina garages that you…
The best time to shop at Publix in Florida is a weekday morning, ideally a Wednesday or Thursday before the after-breakfast crowd rolls in. Weekends are the worst, especially a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, when half your zip code has the same idea. Timing is everything. Shop the empty window, and you get first pick…
A hopeful tourist leans over the counter at a Midtown bodega and asks the guy at the register the question every New Yorker has heard a thousand times: “Do you know anyone famous?” He rings up her coffee without looking up. He heard it yesterday, and the day before, from somebody who’d just gotten off…
Publix added new labels across its stores this month, and they’re stopping customers in their tracks. These are the new Publix finds Floridians are filling their carts with. Note: Inventory varies among stores, so you might not find some of these products at your Publix. 1. Guava and Cheese Pastry Frozen Yogurt Publix took a…
Nobody at the clubhouse in The Villages thinks of themselves as offensive. Florida boomers say please, they hold the door, and yet they still drop phrases that make their kids wince across the dinner table. These words felt neutral for decades. So, they’re understandably caught off guard when a younger relative winces. These are the…
Think you know how to work a Georgia yard sale? The regulars circling a front yard in Macon know a dozen things you don’t. They see a payday where you see a pile of junk. These are the yard sale mistakes that cost Georgians the best finds. 1. Cast Iron Hides Its Value At a…
South Carolina’s piers reach so far offshore that you can hook a king mackerel at the far end and a whiting at the rail on the same afternoon. The two anglers who catch them follow completely different rules. Get those rules wrong, and someone may or may not call you out. Either way, the regulars…
Your hand drifts to the candy rack at the Kroger on Cobb Parkway, reaching for the snack your childhood ran on. It’s not there. Georgia kids grew up on a whole shelf of snacks that stopped showing up, and you still miss them by name. These are the snacks Georgians grew up with that vanished…
