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Gorjus insisted on buying a hunk of cheese that was $17.99/pound so our grilled cheeses would be upscale and exotic. However, because it was so dang expensive, there was only a sliver of expensive cheese on each sammich—the rest of it was cheddar and mozzerella.
wow. that jitney 14 panel looks like some kind of pokemon dance party. i’m imagining a soundtrack played on one of the $9 keyboards by the totino’s aisle.
and in the first panel, sally looks hotter than blondie (the cartoon, not deborah harry).
Does anybody else think that the phrase “Jitney Jungle” sounds really racist? It’s troubled me for a while. When I bring it up here in GA, people wince as if I just said “coon” or “junglebunny” or something.
it has never even remotely occurred to me that the name “jitney jungle” might be racist. i always figured the name was intended to conjure up images of lush, fresh produce. like bananas and mangos and shit.
in other news, there’s a chain of convenience stores around here called “Kum & Go,” which seems vaguely pornographic.
EXACTLY herman! th3 4th panel DOES look like a Pokemon dance party! i can see these cartoon versions of the two of them running through the store getting all the treats they want and SAYING the names of the food out loud “duritos!” “pie!”
speaking of pie, la federala talks about pie more than a twin peaks character.
I also like panel 2 where Gorj is peaking into the VCR. very cool. the funny/odd part is panel one… though not in a bad way…but gorj looks like the Archie’s version of david from Sunnydale High! heh.
i remember when i was a little girl in hattiesburg that the jitney jungle there was painted green and had a mural of palm and banana leaves all across the front. i don’t really get how it’s racist. there is still a “gay’s fruit stand” on the way into natchez. mr. gay still gives you one free piece of fruit for every 6 you buy.
Okay so lets clear this up my goyim brother and sisters.
The story goes like this. The name was supposed to be Jitney Jangle, but the Clarion Ledger ran an ad for Jitney Jungle and the name stuck. Pretty lame story and they are both terrible names.
The name is not racist. It is just plain stupid, and quite possibly the worst name for anything with one glaring exception, the Squat and Chow Old-School Deli.
“Jitney Jingle,” you mean. Which is still pretty awful. The closest thing I have to verifying that: http://www.corporatetrivia.com/archive/40.html
Although apparently it was well-known enough that when the Mississippi Business Journal did a story on the Jitney being bought by Winn-Dixie they said “no more jingle for Jitney Jungle.”
I also found a HILARIOUS typo in the Jacksonville Business Journal—seventy years too late—that said “Winn Dixie bought Jitney Jingle.” Haw!
I wasn’t saying that it WAS racist, you idiots…I was saying that it just SOUNDS like it’s some kind of racial slur. Whenever I mention it to people here, they all agree with me, but maybe that’s a product of my scarily powerful charisma.
“Jitney” sounds like some kind of 1920s epithet to me…and, well, pair it with “jungle” and it just makes me feel dirty saying it, even though I know that it don’t mean nothing.
On an unrelated but no less interesting note, competing with Jitney Jungle and Harris-Teeter for the most curious supermarket name is the chain of “Jewell-Osco”’s around Chicago, etc. Weird.
That’s the land of the Kum ‘N’ Go, by the way.
And Kum’s shoe store in Athens is pronounced Koom’s, like coons. Ha!
once JasN and i were watching a Hockey game. durning one of the breaks the mascots from various high schools came out on the ice with kids to play some game or whatever. one mascot was a raccoon, and when he did something particularly ‘great’ in the ‘contest’ they were having…well, the announcer (clearly oblivious) would start yelling “you Da COON!” “YOU DA COON!” (like “You da MAN”!). We were both pretty shocked until we realized this guy was just an idiot and it became funny.
Gorjus insisted on buying a hunk of cheese that was $17.99/pound so our grilled cheeses would be upscale and exotic. However, because it was so dang expensive, there was only a sliver of expensive cheese on each sammich—the rest of it was cheddar and mozzerella.
pretty damn good version of sally. as for you, that’s a pretty different style but still ‘on’.
Everything is pretty dead-on, especially the fact that I have potatoes for feet.
wow. that jitney 14 panel looks like some kind of pokemon dance party. i’m imagining a soundtrack played on one of the $9 keyboards by the totino’s aisle.
and in the first panel, sally looks hotter than blondie (the cartoon, not deborah harry).
Does anybody else think that the phrase “Jitney Jungle” sounds really racist? It’s troubled me for a while. When I bring it up here in GA, people wince as if I just said “coon” or “junglebunny” or something.
it has never even remotely occurred to me that the name “jitney jungle” might be racist. i always figured the name was intended to conjure up images of lush, fresh produce. like bananas and mangos and shit.
in other news, there’s a chain of convenience stores around here called “Kum & Go,” which seems vaguely pornographic.
there’s a Kum’s shoe store in Athens. The jitney jungle has always irked me too.
EXACTLY herman! th3 4th panel DOES look like a Pokemon dance party! i can see these cartoon versions of the two of them running through the store getting all the treats they want and SAYING the names of the food out loud “duritos!” “pie!”
speaking of pie, la federala talks about pie more than a twin peaks character.
I also like panel 2 where Gorj is peaking into the VCR. very cool. the funny/odd part is panel one… though not in a bad way…but gorj looks like the Archie’s version of david from Sunnydale High! heh.
jesus, kum shoes? awful!
i’ve had some ppl say it sounded weird but it never souned remotely racist to me.
I’ve always liked Piggly Wiggly though.
and remember in West Point? the Refer Washout sign? haw! i took a picture last time i was there!
i remember when i was a little girl in hattiesburg that the jitney jungle there was painted green and had a mural of palm and banana leaves all across the front. i don’t really get how it’s racist. there is still a “gay’s fruit stand” on the way into natchez. mr. gay still gives you one free piece of fruit for every 6 you buy.
“Jungle” offends me about as much as “rainforest” does.
Y’all are all anti-semites.
Okay so lets clear this up my goyim brother and sisters.
The story goes like this. The name was supposed to be Jitney Jangle, but the Clarion Ledger ran an ad for Jitney Jungle and the name stuck. Pretty lame story and they are both terrible names.
The name is not racist. It is just plain stupid, and quite possibly the worst name for anything with one glaring exception, the Squat and Chow Old-School Deli.
And yes, Sally, they all are anti-Semites.
“Jitney Jingle,” you mean. Which is still pretty awful. The closest thing I have to verifying that:
http://www.corporatetrivia.com/archive/40.html
Although apparently it was well-known enough that when the Mississippi Business Journal did a story on the Jitney being bought by Winn-Dixie they said “no more jingle for Jitney Jungle.”
I also found a HILARIOUS typo in the Jacksonville Business Journal—seventy years too late—that said “Winn Dixie bought Jitney Jingle.” Haw!
Look at this old ad!
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/jitney.html
Jangle/Jungle…Jingle/Jungle would make more sense. Thanks! I am such a shmendrik.
I wasn’t saying that it WAS racist, you idiots…I was saying that it just SOUNDS like it’s some kind of racial slur. Whenever I mention it to people here, they all agree with me, but maybe that’s a product of my scarily powerful charisma.
“Jitney” sounds like some kind of 1920s epithet to me…and, well, pair it with “jungle” and it just makes me feel dirty saying it, even though I know that it don’t mean nothing.
On an unrelated but no less interesting note, competing with Jitney Jungle and Harris-Teeter for the most curious supermarket name is the chain of “Jewell-Osco”’s around Chicago, etc. Weird.
That’s the land of the Kum ‘N’ Go, by the way.
And Kum’s shoe store in Athens is pronounced Koom’s, like coons. Ha!
once JasN and i were watching a Hockey game. durning one of the breaks the mascots from various high schools came out on the ice with kids to play some game or whatever. one mascot was a raccoon, and when he did something particularly ‘great’ in the ‘contest’ they were having…well, the announcer (clearly oblivious) would start yelling “you Da COON!” “YOU DA COON!” (like “You da MAN”!). We were both pretty shocked until we realized this guy was just an idiot and it became funny.
Shvieg, all of you.
Nothing makes me laugh more than Weiner’s. I don’t care if it’s pronounced whiners. It will always be weiners to me.
didn’t skrewdriver write the jitney jingle?