It's true. I just remember growing up that you could find all sorts of that stuff at the grocery store, but now all the Piggly Wigglys and whatnot have closed down, at least in the greater Raleigh area. I mean, I know a few places that I can find it, but it's not nearly as ubiquitous as it used to be. And there are many, many barbecue/fried chicken places all around, but, in my mind, that hardly qualifies with the odd stuff you used to see. (I used to eat lunch at least twice a week in a cinderblock shack that served basically nothing but those two items.)

Then again, the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) and the Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and ... High Point?) are very different from much of the rest of the state (Charlotte included), so I might just be a little isolated these days.