Hey now!
I will argue this to my last breath: “It’s not New, and it’s not Mexico.”
Tripler
Proud transplant.
Their web site says, “Despite their small size, they competed against the national chains.” So, that’d be my guess.
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.
Those are pickled. Jarred Hatch chules aren’t.
I agree fully! But I never underestimate the intelligence of corporate management.
Overestimate, yes, but never underestimate. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Basically, yes, and it has extra sweetener and spices, generally cinnamon and cloves.
Yep. You need apple butter for a 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.
I would like you please to go back, buy that, and try putting it on everything.
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”
I’m agreeing. For science @hajario , please.
I need the exact % of added sugars, please.
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!
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.
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?
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”.
It’s one of those things, along with Apple Butter, I see in the overpriced Vermont Country Store catalog.
Pepperoncini is more of an Italian thing than hot peppers.
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.
Yeah. It’d be weird to put pepperoncini in a burrito or on nachos. They belong on hoagies with salami and mustard.