The Midway Trading Post, a convenience store that was situated just down the road from our neighborhood, was torn down before I retired and moved to Southport, North Carolina.
Among other things, it sold coffee and bait, and was generally known locally as the "Worms and Coffee" place. That name really caught on, and the owner even put it in one of the windows...
Here's an article about the place from August of 2010 (it closed in 2016).
H/T: Mrs. Paco
Everyone was glad it wasn't the "Worms in Coffee" place.
ReplyDeleteKlaus Schwab: Und vhat iss wrong mit vorms in coffee? It iss ze easiest vay for you people to get zem down, nein?
ReplyDeleteYou vill eaten ze vorms, und like zem!
ReplyDeleteFlorence King one wrote that she hoped future students would be as puzzled by the "Treaty of Nice" as she and her compatriots were by the "Diet of Worms."
ReplyDeleteThere's a place like that on Rte 73 near the town where my kids and grandkids live. It has gas pumps, a bait station, sells firewood and ice, and serves as a convenience store/diner/taproom where you can get growlers of really good craft beer. The place is always busy from dawn until the wee hours. Everybody calls it "B&B", not as catchy as "Worms and Coffee" of course, and the chicken dinners are excellent.
ReplyDeleteRebecca: I love little places like that. There was one in Cary, NC, where I grew up, where I would buy gas and beer. I would walk in, sometimes, smoking a big cigar (you could do that back when), and the friendly old clerk would say, "Hello, cigar, where's your buddy?"
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