# Grocery product placement **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [November 1, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568 "2024-11-01T22:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/41 "2024-11-02T18:17:07Z")
Hey now! I will argue this to my last breath: “[It’s not New, and it’s not Mexico.](https://youtu.be/CrqItNh6rRI?si=x_1eTjBUM5RTRs5e)” Tripler Proud transplant. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/42 "2024-11-02T18:17:29Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I used to work for Tom Thumb, and nobody could tell me where the hell that name came from Their web site says, “Despite their small size, they competed against the national chains.” So, that’d be my guess. > **[About Us | Tom Thumb](https://www.tomthumb.com/about-us.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/43 "2024-11-02T18:26:15Z")
Ah, there you go. Man did that bring back memories, I worked for them for almost a decade. Also > Saunders’ reason for choosing the intriguing name “Piggly Wiggly®” remains a mystery; he was curiously reluctant to explain its origin. One story says that, while riding a train, he looked out his window and saw several little pigs struggling to get under a fence, which prompted him to think of the rhyme. Someone once asked him why he had chosen such an unusual name for his organization, to which he replied, “So people will ask that very question.” Regardless of his inspiration, he succeeded in finding a name that would be talked about and remembered. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/44 "2024-11-02T19:53:09Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > So explain the presence of pepperoncini and jalapenos to me. Those are pickled. Jarred Hatch chules aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/45 "2024-11-02T20:50:50Z")
I agree fully! But I never underestimate the intelligence of corporate management. Overestimate, yes, but never underestimate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/46 "2024-11-02T21:02:59Z")
I just stopped by the very fancy grocery store near my house to pick up a couple items and for all of you I checked out the situation. Apple butter was with the peanut butter. Peanut butter was was in the prominent area with the almond butter. At the bottom was cashew butter and other lesser nuts (it’s the Dope we all know that peanuts are actually legumes). On the top was something called everything butter which is a blend of a bunch of different nuts and apple butter and pumpkin butter. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/47 "2024-11-02T22:16:36Z")
Another vote for not thinking apple butter is seasonal. For some reason we bought it quite often when I was a kid. Haven’t had any in decades. I think it’s just not a popular product, regardless of time of year. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/48 "2024-11-02T22:18:27Z")
I used to eat apple butter on rice cakes, when rice cakes were still a popular thing. It was the only way I’d ever use up all the apple butter I made. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/49 "2024-11-02T22:20:21Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Another vote for not thinking apple butter is seasonal. I suspect that some people _use_ it seasonally, since it’s apparently used as an ingredient in some baked good recipes, like muffins and cakes, and the apple flavor probably lends itself to autumn-y kinds of recipes. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/50 "2024-11-02T22:23:17Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > If you have trouble bending to get it, ask and any employee will help you. Grocery store employees are very helpful. I was browsing the dog food aisle and an employee asked if he could help me. I said, I’m looking for something my fussy dog will eat. He replied, the steaks are in the meat section. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/51 "2024-11-02T22:24:26Z")
Basically, yes, and it has extra sweetener and spices, generally cinnamon and cloves. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/52 "2024-11-02T22:25:30Z")
Yep. You need apple butter for a [stack cake](https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/appalachian-apple-stack-cake). I always make my own as well as peach and grape butter. I’ve never seen those last two in the grocery though I’ve seen them in specialty stores. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/53 "2024-11-03T01:28:04Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > On the top was something called everything butter which is a blend of a bunch of different nuts and apple butter and pumpkin butter. I would like you please to go back, buy that, and try putting it on everything. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/54 "2024-11-03T01:39:55Z")
Mad Butcher always tickled me. Crazy mad Butcher with a clever…gah!! My sister lives in Texas, they call it H E B, not _Heb_, like I would’ve. Wow, those are nice stores. They have everything. We call our Piggly Wiggly “Pigs” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/55 "2024-11-03T01:44:31Z")
I’m agreeing. For science @hajario , please. I need the exact % of added sugars, please. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/56 "2024-11-03T01:45:42Z")
I used to make apple butter. I’m not a huge fan and I’ve never purchased it, but I couldn’t bear to waste all those apples my trees produce. (Now I just let the deer eat their fill.) The best use I found for it was to stir it into maple syrup. Heat and serve over pancakes. That’s pretty yum! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/57 "2024-11-03T01:49:49Z")
I have made it. My kids loved it on biscuits. I always never wanna go past the applesauce phase, before you add all the spices and sugars. I love plain applesauce. Little salt and I’m good. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/58 "2024-11-03T02:16:54Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I had an odyssey trying to find tahini to make hummus at my local grocery not so long ago. I looked everywhere I figured it was likely to be- areas with other nut or seed spreads, the ‘ethnic goods’ aisle, etc. etc. I asked a few employees who thought they had it but had no luck either. Finally an employee remembered where it was- in a clip-on rack on a door of a refrigerated goods section. Just a total random place for it. At my store we stock it with the peanut butter. I presume because it’s a thick, savory spread. Perhaps your store put it where it was because there were other “Greek” ingredients in that refrigerated section? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/59 "2024-11-03T02:38:48Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Has the popularity of apple butter substantially declined? I remember it from when I was a kid, but not since then. Or is this popular only in certain regions of the country? IMHO and iirc, it is more popular in the East, and occurs more in boutique stores. I think Whole foods carries it, for example. I tried it, and voted “meh”. > [@fedman1](#): > > what, nobody eats navy bean soup anymore? It’s one of those things, along with Apple Butter, I see in the overpriced Vermont Country Store catalog. > [@Chefguy](#): > > So explain the presence of pepperoncini and jalapenos to me. Pepperoncini is more of an Italian thing than hot peppers. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > You giggle at Schnucks but not at Piggly Wiggly? Piggly Wiggly, altho not out here on the West coast, is pretty famous. IIRC it was the first self service grocery store, and made history that way. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568/60 "2024-11-03T02:44:34Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Pepperoncini is more of an Italian thing than hot peppers. Yeah. It’d be weird to put pepperoncini in a burrito or on nachos. They belong on hoagies with salami and mustard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grocery-product-placement/1009568.md?page=4)