Scrapple. If they have it.
(I’m done mentioning scrapple. For a while, anyway. ;))
Scrapple’s in the freezer section near the frozen breakfast sausage type stuff. Yum!
My dad went bonkers for scrapple near the end of his life and spent a year trying different store-bought and butcher formulations, then various recipes he wrote away for, etc. Never was sure why. Never could like the stuff much, myself. 
Fellow Floridian! We must get together and split a slab. And make everybody else watch. 
It’s a benign obsession. Uh…gotta go; grocery shopping! (…near the frozen breakfast sausage type stuff.)
At one store I go to it’s actually with cheese. At another it’s by the lard in the baking aisle.
The thing I hate is my family will use it at most once per year, exactly 1 pound in a recipe. We wouldn’t use it for anything else, and that’s just something made once for a family tradition thing. However, several times I have only been able to find 2 lbs. So I waste money and “food.”
That’s really my biggest beef with most food shopping - if you can find something it’s often in weird or uneven quantities. I need 16 oz of something for a recipe I’ll never make again and it’s only sold in 9 3/4 oz jars, or whatever.
Well, that’s the thing, it is on a shelf, but it’s the shelf on top of the refrigerated case, so often you’re looking right at it but don’t actually see it. Because it’s not in the case, if you know what I mean… Another thing: pepperoni is in its very own display case (unrefrigerated), packets and sticks, somewhere around there. Then there is sliced pepperoni in plastic containers elsewhere, refrigerated. Then there are sealed packets in the Italian food section on the shelf near the jars of artichoke hearts. Quite an adventure shopping, sometimes. Going to a whole different grocery store can be a real treasure hunt, nothing where you expect it to be.
Or the reverse: you need 1 Teaspoon of baking powder for the one time a year you bake a cake and who needs Clabber Girl in a 3 lb can?
Yep, exactly. I don’t even want to think about how many different expired oils, spices, and every other baking thing I’ve gone through for something made once per year.
I’ll bring the Karo syrup!
When I’ve seen it (which, I admit, is in its home area of Pennsylvania), it’s been at the deli counter, by the sausages and slab bacon and things of that nature (“charcuterie,” I guess if we’re using fancy terms.)
It’s worth noting that grocery stores don’t just move stuff around to keep the staff busy or because the manager has a great idea. Keeping the customer interested/intrigued/engaged or (your choice here) off-balance/searching/confused is called “product news” or “shelf news,” and the players, practices and purpose make investment banking look like a kid’s game.
My wife sent me to Fred Meyer with a list, and one of the things on there was “Kevita Lemon Cayenne drinks.”
After wandering around the drink aisle, then the organic aisle, I finally gave up and asked someone. He had never heard of it and looked at me like I was crazy, or possibly from the future (“Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range”)
He finally called in the big guns, the woman who knew where everything in the Fred Meyer Universe was, and she took me to a single fridge buried at the end of the bakery aisle that had nothing in it but Kevita.
Velveeta in my local store is on small wire stand next to the butcher’s window. On that stand is sliced packaged pepperoni and velveeta products. It’s just around the corner from the breakfast meats and right in front of the ground beef. I ponder this on occasion.
Coconut aminos. It’s a sub for soy sauce with a little less sodium and no soy. I found it on the store’s app. Aisle five. I faced an area approximately 4 feet wide and 7 feet tall with various Asian sauces and oils. I found coconut milk. Coconut water. Every stir fry sauce known to man. I checked the app to make sure I had the right store (I go to two different ones depending on whether I go after work or from home). Nothing. Finally, I decided they just hadn’t updated the app. I’m walking away and at the end of the aisle, fifteen yards from the Asian foods section, I spy it. It was with the Walton’s Farms dressings, shelf stable nut and soy milks, and gluten free stuff.
I confess also to having spent 20 frustrating minutes trying to find raisins in Walmart. Snacks. Unless you’re a really gullible toddler, you KNOW raisins aren’t a snack.
The Velveeta at my store is on an endcap by the dairy case next to the yogurt. I only know this because I buy yogurt almost every week and I stand there by the Velveeta display while deciding what yogurt flavors to buy.
Someone upthread mentioned Hershey’s syrup. It’s with the tea and hot cocoa between the coffee and cold cereals at my store, because that makes perfect sense.
I had an adventure just today trying to find baking soda. I figured it’d be in the baking supplies aisle with the flour and sugar. Nope… it was in with the oils and vinegar and salad dressings. 
I only found it because the bright orange box caught my eye.
What it won’t tell you is if the associate put the stock out or in the right place.
I think my store arbitrarily splits raisins between the baking section and the snack section based on the size of package. Come to think of it they also do that with nuts.
Any New Duncan Imperials fans?
Gizzards, Scrapple and Tripe!
The corollary to this thread is, which favorite product did your store just stop carrying?
I’m sure we’ve done this before, but I’m still grieving the loss of Edy’s Espresso Chip!
Speaking of Velveeta…
We used to have a locally made brand of salsa called Senor Stan’s. It was in the Mexican aisle with all the other salsas and picante sauces. Then the owner died, and there was some indecision as to whether the rest of the family would carry on, and Senor Stan’s disappeared from the shelves.
Then a few months later, it was back! They had apparently decided to go back into production. But then a few months after that it disappeared again, and I assumed they had shut down for good.
Cut to a few months later, when I decided I was going to make some rotel dip for Super Bowl Sunday and needed to buy some Velveeta. The Velveeta is on an end cap near the dairy section, along with the grated Parmesan and some other stuff. And what do I see on the shelf above the Velveeta but a whole array of Senor Stan’s! Why the hell they decided to stock it with the cheese, on the other side of the store from the rest of the salsas, I have never figured out. But at least now I know where to find it.
Lard- 4 different store people were reasonably sure that they had it somewhere. No one was exactly sure where.
Also wonton wrappers. No one seems to know where they live (dairy/eggs? pasta? asian food aisle? some other place? Last time they were with the mushrooms - the store people didn’t know that one either, though someone must have put them there at one time or another)
Exactly the same thing happened with Woody’s Cookin’ Sauce. When it went out of production, I went around to every nearby store in the chain and bought the last six or so bottles I thought I’d ever see. By the time I was down to the last, the family had started up again.
Great sauce - not BBQ, but spicy black pepper smokehouse.