"Nuts To You From Kars"..."Detroit" things in odd places

**douglasm** · May-31-10, 12:41 PM

My wife an I are celebrating Memorial Day by doing yard work. Yippee. But this morning at the hardware store here in my Central Washington town, I saw a display of Kars nuts, which blew me away.

Now Vernors is fairly common out here and about 10 years ago, some guy was distributing Faygo to C-stores. No Better Made, though. So the question I ask of Detroit area ex-pats is have you found any unexpected Detroit-ish items? What, and where?

**jiminnm** · May-31-10, 06:57 PM

It's not from detroit, but one of the groceries here in NM carries Schuler's cheese.

**xphillipjrx** · May-31-10, 11:24 PM

Faygo and Better Mades are in many of the neighborhood stores in Chicago. Now I only need to go a mile from my house to get a bag of goodness.

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...BetterMade.jpg

This is the grocery store on 63rd E of Cottage Grove.

**kahnman** · June-01-10, 01:23 AM

Well douglasm, on the "wet side" of the mountains here in the Northwest corner of Washington state, this ex-pat has located Uncle Ray's potato chips in some of the "scratch and dent" food stores...pretty crazy!

**mikefmich** · June-01-10, 02:53 AM

Im pulling Sanders Hot Fudge off the shelf in southern OH. Before I moved, I brought it down here to my uncle for years.

**douglasm** · June-01-10, 05:59 AM

Kahnman.....
.....we get some Meijer branded stuff at the local Grocery Outlet sometimes.

Where are you? I'm outside of Wenatchee....

**mtm49269** · June-01-10, 12:54 PM

When we were living in No. CA, years ago, we actually discovered a Lafayette Coney Island in s shopping mall! Apparently and brother or cousin of the Lafayette owner here in D, moved out there and opened his own version. Was a WONDERFUL flash from home.

**iheartthed** · June-01-10, 01:08 PM

They sell [[or sold) Faygo products in the K Mart at Penn Station in Manhattan.

9mile&seneca · June-01-10, 01:14 PM

Once every blue moon some Vernors at the Publix on Wilminton Island Ga.

**Wintersmommy** · June-01-10, 01:17 PM

Not sure that this counts ...or that Detroit even really wants to claim them as a product of the D

but
on a very late [[and drunk night) I came out of a bar in a small town in New Jersey to find a group of teenagers wearing ICP tee-shirts and freaked out because [[besides being drunk) I didnt know anyone out side of Detroit knew who ICP was...turns out they have a whole cult following thing going on.
the guys wanted me to send them faygo, which I said I would [[again I was not in my right mind) but never followed through with ...not one of my better nights

**DetroitPlanner** · June-01-10, 01:29 PM

I was out in California and saw a lot of Ford F-150s made in Dearborn and Foci made in Wayne, does that count?

**douglasm** · June-01-10, 01:34 PM

9Mile&Seneca.....
......if you can find out who distributes 7-Up/Dr. Pepper in your area, you might be able to get Vernors through them. Vernors is part of the Dr. Pepper-Snapple group.

BTW, is/was that the Baskin-Robbins corner?

**kahnman** · June-01-10, 03:38 PM

douglasm, I'm near Bellingham. I'll have to pester some distributors for Vernors. Although I just torture myself by sneezing every time I try to drink a sip of it out of a glass! Am I the only person that's carbonationally challenged? Serious, those bubbles spray out of the top a good 3 inches or more...