Big local news: Piggly Wiggly opens a new store in my Hometown McCalla, Alabama today. Piggly Wiggly has always been a uniquely Southern grocery store and I must say I’m glad they are here. Piggly Wiggly is a Southern icon. It’s almost as big as grits and cornbread. Maybe it’s because “The Pig” is has references in the movies like Driving Miss Daisy, and Steel Magnolias. Maybe it’s an icon because of it’s goofy name or maybe it’s because, it’s always been here as long as I can remember, which by the way was… last week I think.
It saddens me that a Southern Icon like Piggly Wiggly is run by a company in New Hampshire these days, it just seems weird to me. The good news is that the nice folks in New Hampshire have managed to keep the down home Southern flavor of “the Pig” intact. I think it’s because most of the Piggly Wiggly stores around here are locally owned, and that’s important too.
These days, everyone I know in Alabama loves Publix, and I do too. Publix is great store, but I think it’s healthy for our little town to have a choice. It seems funny to me that the Piggly Wiggly is now a New Hampshire company and Publix is a Florida based company that feels like it should be from New Hampshire. Go figure??? Maybe it’s because most of Florida isn’t really in the South. An old man in Pine Hill, Alabama once told me that the Panhandle of Florida was in the South and the rest of it was in the North. He also said that anyone that lived North of Montgomery, Alabama was a Yankee. So I guess by his definition I’m a Yankee (Southern Yankee). Where is New Hampshire anyways?
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