Piggly Wiggly

I have been with my family in McCalla for a while now and I have to say that I have really enjoyed my time with them. I really thought that I would miss the farm but there have been so many, new and exciting things to experience that I have hardly even thought about the farm. I also know that Frank is doing a great job handling all the daily chores. He called me yesterday and told me just how great my favorite cow, Betsey, and her new calf were doing.

My cousin asked me today what my favorite thing about the city was. I did not even hesitate to say “The food!” The city has so many different types of, everything from cupcakes to candy to frozen pizza. Apparently, all the food comes from the grocery store here. On the farm, we made most of our food and what we could not make we would make trip to the small grocery store in town. So, on this cloudy day, the family decided it would be the perfect day to go to the grocery store, the Piggly Wiggly. I was very interested to see the city’s grocery store. I knew the store had to be big to house all these amazing foods, but I was not prepared for how huge it was. There were so many aisles. In my little town’s grocery store there were only five aisles. The Piggly Wiggly in McCalla had at least twenty aisles and the most food I had ever seen in one place. However, some of it was pretty strange. The Piggly Wiggly sold the carrots in plastic bags that did not have an opening. How did they get in there? And what happened to the stems on top of the carrots? It was pretty strange, but not as strange as the “Egg Beaters”. These were eggs out of the shell and in a milk carton. They were just baffling. Why would you want pre-cracked eggs. Cracking them open is the best part! 

The best part of the grocery store was the cupcakes. They even had giant cupcake statue in the store, but it was one of those things that is not for sale. I have the biggest sweet tooth and cupcakes are my favorite sweet. The grocery store is great. I keep trying to convince the family to go back tomorrow, but they keep telling me that we do not need anything. Maybe I can convince them to go later on in the week.