You guys don't know store hygiene until you have experienced "Pechin's"
in Dunbar, PA.  This place was unbelievable, and hard to explain.  (The
name is pronounced "Peachins".)

If you lived in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern PA, you might have
shopped there.  We did, off and on, back in the 70s and early 80s.  It
is probably still there, but can anyone confirm this?

There were several businesses, clustered in a bottomland of the creek,
which flooded every spring.  The grocery store was the most amazing, and
a big draw from miles around.  This is a place where health inspectors
did not go, or at least no one shuts them down because they have an
unfinished wood floor.  Food comes in off trucks just like any normal
supermarket, but the layout is a an illogical maze.  No, the fresh
produce is not off to the right as you enter.  It was at the back, and
cereal was near the entrance.  The meat counter usually had people
waiting 4 or 5 deep for the next items to be placed in the open
refrigerated case.  People grabbed whatever came out, and were glad to
get it.  It was cheap, of course, and no one was too particular about
the cuts.

After shopping, we then went over to the "restaurant" for cheap eats or
ice cream.  Our kids loved it, the whole shopping experience was an
education.  I'll always remember the place.  Now I shop in very upscale,
or at least new, supermarkets that have all the latest fad foods.  I
enjoy all the interesting foodstores around town, but nothing will ever
compare to "Pechin's."

Ilene

P.S.  I don't think anyone ever wrote a song about Pechin's, either.