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| - I'm going to assume for the sake of this review that people still cook (and bake)... Because if you are looking for microwave meals, you will not find them here. (but I am excited to try their soup mixes, and their jars of prepared soup this fall!)
Since the peddler opened I have been singing their praises all over the neighborhood. Absolutely the best (and cheapest) deli in the area by far, the bulk spices and pantry area is insane! I have paid twice as much for quinoa at "big bird"... The bakery is home produced, (aside from some breads)... And the best part is, if you want something on a regular basis that they don't carry, or even if you just want something once, they will order it for you! My first trip there, I needed baking soda (I bake with it, clean with it, I use a lot!) and they for some reason didn't have any. I asked the guy working, who wrote it down on a notepad and told me it would be in the following Wednesday! Then, I overheard a customer a few weeks later talking to them about getting a pig for a Hawaiian style pig roast (they had it for him the next week!). What national chain orders something they don't carry for you? Order if available online, sure, but not something they don't carry! (Hell, my "big bird" wouldn't even cut me bone-in sirloin)
The food peddler is not going to completely replace every grocery store from your life, but it is really nice to go to a neighborhood market, with friendly people every week instead of fighting crowds and waiting in line for 20 minutes.
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