# So, they had a "Southern Food" section in the Giant Eagle. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966 "2009-01-12T20:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966/21 "2009-01-13T03:23:11Z")
That’s the thing - it weren’t. It was the Happy Negro Fish Fry section. ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966/22 "2009-01-13T03:53:46Z")
I’m pretty sure that the Meijers in Michigan have “Southern Food” and “British Food” sections in the “Foods of the World” aisle (as my mom calls it). I’ve never really given it a second thought. I guess I’ll have to pay more attention to that part of the aisle. ---
**Author:** ![MizTina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966/23 "2009-01-13T04:00:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I’m beginning to think that Halsey was right… > _eggs?_ 😕😕 Who’d they get to take a shit on that burrito?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966/24 "2009-01-13T04:02:06Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > When I stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in Wales, the menu included an “American breakfast”. Apparently we like beans with breakfast. (shrugging) I do. And on buttered toast, though I had no idea that was a Britishism until fairly recently. I’ve heard that you can win bar bets in Britain claiming Heinz is an American company. A store by me has a British food section and, along with cans of curry and spotted dick, I saw (cue The Who) Heinz baked beans. Thanks, kids, but I’m not paying $2.50 for a can of beans just because you shipped them back here from Old Blighty. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966/25 "2009-01-13T04:18:15Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > If they want to have a \*\*relevant \*\* ethnic foods section here in NH, it ought to consist of poutine and Tim Hortons. You know, I’ve lived in NH over half my life, and went to college with a lot of Canadians. Not one person has ever offered me any Canadian cuisine. Sorry. I mean Canada cuisine. ---
**Author:** ![Momofgirls](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/momofgirls/32/21798_2.png) [@Momofgirls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Momofgirls)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966/26 "2009-01-13T05:40:17Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > We have GE stores here too and while I’ve been amused at their selection in the ethnic aisle, I don’t think I’ve seen a Southern section. They have Mexican, Hispanic and Asian, plus a little kosher section (not marked, I don’t think) and all of that is across from the pasta (or un-marked Italian) section. > > Here’s a secret, tho - there’s an entire spice rack in the Mexican section that has most, if not all, basic spices. They’re about 1/4 the price of the spices in the spice aisle! > > I’ll have to see tonight if there’s a Southern section now. We also have GE stores (Frederick County, MD). Our stores have the ethnic sections, but no “Southern” area. I discovered the cheap spices! I needed crushed red peppers, and they wanted something like $3 or $4 for a little McCormick bottle. I got three times the size in the Mexican section for about half the price. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966/27 "2009-01-13T06:33:22Z")
> [@MizTina](#): > > Who’d they get to take a shit on that burrito?! :eek: It was an experience, believe me. The 4/5 of the menu that had nothing to do with the avowed “Southwest” theme was bad enough. The “Southwestern” dishes were even more poignantly risk-fraught. The “burrito” sauce is some close cousin to Japanese curry (which, if you know it, is pretty tasy, but not like Indian curry, and certainly in no way related to Mexico). The “jambalaya” was even further afield albeit on a similar theme, even minus the egg. My personal appellation was curryesque fried rice with egg on top. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966/28 "2009-01-13T06:42:45Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > One of the things that amuses me about the awesome grocery chain known as Wegmans is their “ethnic cuisine section.” In addition to a “Southern Food” section, they have a Goya section. Not a Hispanic or Latino section, a Goya section. If you’re talking about a Weggies in WNY, I think it’s because there’s very few Mexican Latinos in the area; instead, it’s Puerto Ricans and the stray Dominican here and there. Goya is their brand. Sure, there’s Mexican-oriented Goya products, but where I live now, in Austin, one will find very few Goya products on the shelves even though the Mexican-American community here is huge. I’m pleased that the two supermarkets near where I live have fairly decent Kosher sections, even though I’m nowhere near the Jewish section of town. (I’m in the northeast; the Chosen Austinites live towards the northwest.) Nowhere near as nice as the GE stores in South Euclid and Lyndhurst, Ohio or the “Jewish Heinen’s” in University Heights, but still pretty decent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-had-a-southern-food-section-in-the-giant-eagle/480966.md?page=1)