Re: [CH] Re: To the Jungle and Back

Gary Bellinger (yesgaz@itcanada.com)
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:18:54 -0500 

I may have missed it before but does Jungle Jims have a website address that
I could visit since it would be an 8-hour trip + a border crossing one way.
I'd love just to get a
virtual look at the place and savor what the aroma of the place must be.

Gary

>
> >From: Myron Menaker <myronm@bellsouth.net>
>
> >Where is this?? Just north of Cincy...near Route I-75 or I-71? I have
> >not been following the thread!
>
> The store is on Rt. 4 (the "Dixie Highway") a few miles north of the Cinci
> outerbelt.  I admit I've never measured the distance from the outerbelt to
> the store, but I would guess about six miles.
>
> Yes, they did have the table in the back with the hot sauces.  I didn't
> recognize any of the names, though, and I didn't want to get myself
started
> on a burn cycle.  Plus I had no appetite after that restaurant lunch,
which
> may explain how we got out of there for under $150.
>
> Today I was browsing in the local groceries (I should just get a job as a
> stock boy) and many of the prices in the produce setion were twice as high
> as I had seen at the jungle.  But it isn't the price that sends me to that
> store, it's the incomparable selection.  If I lived closer, I'd be buying
> more meats and fish and cheese and short-term perishables.  As it is, I
can
> make my way there once a year or so, so I like to stock up on things like
> sauces and dry goods like the excellent house-brand rice pilaf mix.  The
> city I live in has decent groceries - which I have learned to appreciate
> when I travel/camp in much smaller towns - but this place is the best.
>
> Risa, if you're a hour and fifteen minutes away from a place like this,
> you're 45 minutes luckier than I am!
>
> BTW they do not permit cameras.
>
> We will go back again - I've told my mother about the place, and if Dad
and
> I take her along, we had better budget at least three hours.  Shoot, I'd
> better get her one of those little scooter seats and let her cruise at her
> leisure.  Hmm, too bad they don't have a bar.
>
> - A
>
>
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