Challah, the Christmas treat...

There are many good things about the local (is it a chain, I don't know for sure, but it is
"employee-owned") grocery store. It has a great selection of many many things, it's kind of like
the nicest, spiffiest suburban grocery store- or like Market District Giant Eagle. It's way nicer
than the craptastic Giant Eagle I shopped at in Pgh.
Also you can buy wine there. Have I not stressed this already? Perhaps, the novelty of this will wear off eventually, although I could devote an entire entry (and later, likely, I will) to the joy that is the Hy-vee Wine and Liquor store... It's attached, to the very same store. And is open all sorts of "crazy" hours, like on Sundays. Wild. You know, after living in the strange PA/state monopolized liquor store-land with it's oddly restrictive rules, it is almost unsettling to walk into not just the grocery store but Target, Walgreens, etc. and see lo and behold, Cases of beer for sale. A-M-azing... And I'm not even really a beer drinker.

Okay but back to the topic at hand... Although at some point I will have to talk about the cast of characters who work in the Hy-vee Wine and Liquor Store (hereto will be abbreviated as HWLS)...including... 14 yr old girl, Kenny, and Talon.

This is a second-hand story... but still worth telling. Cory apparently asked someone who works at the grocery if they had any challah. The worker gave him a perplexed look and he tried to elaborate by explaining/describing the sweet yummy Jewish bread. The guy said he had "never heard of that in his entire life"
But, if nothing else, Iowans are very helpful and they do seem to all take their jobs seriously. Honestly. Almost every person (except for that disgruntled girl at Wendys) who I've encountered is very cheerful and nice.
So the guy called his manager to inquire about this mysterious bread- and was told
"We only carry it around Christmas".

Um, yes... all the challah we eat to celebrate Christmas...

On the plus side, also, they have Brueggers here! So you can get bagels. But only til 3 p.m., as I found out the other day. Seriously folks... if you have any bagel cravings post 3 p.m., you're out of luck. Gotta plan carefully.