Why We Stan Grocery Stores

Eater's Digest

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Chances are, you've got a favorite grocery store. Whether it's the employees, the childhood nostalgia of a hometown market, or the unique products that make yours great, everyone seems to have that one grocery store they're obsessed with. Stores all over the country have built cult followings, and we wanted to know: what is it about the grocery store that we love so much? Jaya Saxena joins us to lay out her theory, and then we hear from Eater's editors about their favorite places across the country. Did yours make the list? Then, we get into the biggest food stories of the week, from the "chicken parm bro" phenomenon, to an ill-advised take on poutine and how Amanda found herself deep in Daniel's credit card receipts and more. Stories: • How Chicken Parm Became an Aphrodisiac • Are Alt-Milks Taking Out Big Milk? • An Arby's Tried to Ban Children Featuring: Jaya Saxena (@JayaSax) James Park (@JamesyWorld) Meghan McCarron (@MegMcCarron) Erin DeJesus (@asteriskerin) Rebecca Jennings (@rebexxxxa) Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater Produced by: Martha Daniel (@martha_c_daniel) More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.0	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.0	They don't last forever.
0:18.0	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.0	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.3	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe
0:29.6	Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.0	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. From the newsroom at Eder, I'm Amanda Cloot.
0:45.0	And I'm Daniel Janine.
0:49.0	And this is Eder's Digest, a show about all things food and dining.
0:52.0	With a little help from the biggest names in the world of food and the journalists
0:57.2	here at Eater, we try to understand what's happening right now in kitchens, restaurants,
1:01.2	and dining rooms around the world.
1:02.8	Today on the show we're looking at grocery store obsessions and how brands across the country
1:07.3	turn shoppers into loyal fans.
1:09.3	Yeah, and then we're going to get into the biggest stories of the week from a questionable new
1:14.3	poutain to a little too much intimacy in credit card transactions at restaurants to
1:19.9	chicken parm bros bet you want to know what that is and some shakeups in the big milk
1:26.5	industry. Before we get started today we need your help have you ever had a
1:30.4	Thanksgiving mishap like kitchen catching on fire or a badly
1:34.0	behave relative we want to hear about it because we are putting an episode
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