C & J’s Food Pride

One thing, the address is wrong, it’s 2901 which puts it across the road from 2900. 2900 is the location of that awful sunoco.
They’ve been here for many years. The father, I think, has retired and the son has taken over it. The son used to be somewhat of a brat when he worked in the store. He got married and I guess a couple of two-​year olds ran the attitude out of him. And, he likely realized with running a store comes responsibility and a store needs customers to come back to make a go of it.
Smaller, old-​time establishment that’s more of a neighborhood store than a big box, generic, no name, no relationship with the customer type store.
For their size, they have a decent fresh produce section, at a price higher than say Warmart but that’s the breaks, everyone’s a little higher than the big box, behemoth. They are the only store that I know of in the area that sells kaolin dirt. It’s packaged on a Styrofoam tray, wrapped in plastic and looks like white chocolate.
For those who don’t know, some people, mainly women crave this dirt which is more of a white clay/​dirt during pregnancy. It’s one of those old timey things that a few still keep going. They used to carry pork sausage seasoning in a bag that made 25 pounds of sausage but stopped carrying it. While I’ve never made pork sausage, that seasoning made a surprisingly good seasoning for beef and chicken on the grill.
Nice selection of meats and basic selection of most stables that one needs around the kitchen.
This is also one of the few places in town that sells one pump of NOT alcohol based gasoline. Whle gasohol might be better for a car, it’s not so good for small engines like weed eaters and it’s said to be hard on the seals and tubing. That alone will get several people in just to buy a gallon of gas. If you spend two hundred dollar plus on a weed eater, why shorten the life of it with gasoline that wont’ stay as fresh as long and not as good a quality for these small engines?
Other extras, pay phones. Yes, you might want to bring your kids here for a history lesson of how people communicated before cellphones came along. Also mail boxes. If you don’t want to make the trip to the main post office and have something that you don’t want to take the chance of someone stealing out of your box overnight, this will save you a lot of time.
The prices are a little higher but for the time you save and mileage, it all evens out.