Pink & White?

Is the name of the grocery store a reference to something? Help us out, Texans!

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[email] wrote:

] Is the name of the grocery store a reference to something? Help us out, ] Texans!

Well, I don't have the honor of being a Texan, but I do have an old Rio Grande Valley Phone book, which may well not be representative of the Arlen Area. Two of the names that appear a fair number of times in the Yellow Pages are Circle K and C Mart. There's nothing obviously like Pink & White, but there is one listing for Piggly Wiggly, which may be a possibility if that is a chain that has more stores in the Arlen area.

Well,first off,R.J.,Arlen is not here in the Valley,although I have thought so myself.Up until the "6 hours to Wichita" line,because it takes that long just to get to Austin from here,unless you have a lead foot,then you can do it in 5 hours. I'm not sure what "Pink and White" is supposed to be,so I'll guess it's the chain of grocery stores called HEB,which stands for Henry E. Butts.HEB stores are all over Texas,and their logo is red and white.In fact,it's the only grocery store I go to.Piggly Wiggly's are still around,but they are dying fast.There was a PW in my little town years ago,guess what it is now? An HEB.

Jessi

Jessi Cuellar wrote:

] Well,first off,R.J.,Arlen is not here in the Valley,

Um, okay. But then that's what my "which may well not be representative of the Arlen Area" was all about. The posting was a stopgap until someone closer could come up with something better. Can you?

] although I have ] thought so myself.Up until the "6 hours to Wichita" line,because it ] takes that long just to get to Austin from here,unless you have a lead ] foot,then you can do it in 5 hours.

Well, okay again, but you don't want to put too much emphasis on any particular "fact", because Arlen seems to float around. Arlen is also 4 hours from Port Aransas, three hours from Houston, maybe two hours from Dallas, within bicycle radius of Willie Nelson's golf course, and within easy commute of an Army "base" big enough to support a general (which is to say one a lot like Fort Hood, though Fort Sam Houston and maybe a couple of others are possible real-life models). It's a lot like Garland and Arlington. There are constant hints about Albany. It is certainly in Texas, and probably southeast of the very center, but that's as close as we can get from the evidence on the show.

] I'm not sure what "Pink and White" ] is supposed to be,so I'll guess it's the chain of grocery stores called ] HEB,which stands for Henry E. Butts.HEB stores are all over Texas,and ] their logo is red and white.In fact,it's the only grocery store I go ] to.Piggly Wiggly's are still around,but they are dying fast.There was a ] PW in my little town years ago,guess what it is now? An HEB.

Could well be. They tend to have references mighty close to reality, yet different enough for deniability. You say there was a PW in your little town years ago? And there's a Pink & White in Arlen today? Hmm.

My father's place is in Harlingen, so that's not representative of the Arlen area in many respects, and yet Arlen isn't all that different from where I live in Maryland.

In article , [email] says...

Not a Texan but a Tar Heel, but when I was a kid growing up in small-town Wilson, North Carolina our neighborhood grocery store was the "Red and White". I've seen them in small towns throughout the south, but I think many were bought out by Food Lion or Winn-Dixie.

I still have a plastic gallon pitcher with "Wilson Red and White" on the top.

JD (we had a Piggly Wiggly too)

"Red and White's" were once all over the place, even where I grew up in Crofton, B.C.