I think this is/was the main grocery in Asbury Park, though I could be wrong. It no longer has signs like “BEEF LIVERS $6.99/LB” in the window, so I don’t know if it’s still open.
April 10, 2007
April 10, 2007
I think this is/was the main grocery in Asbury Park, though I could be wrong. It no longer has signs like “BEEF LIVERS $6.99/LB” in the window, so I don’t know if it’s still open.
April 10, 2007 at 2:03 am
i understand the ‘meat’… but what is the ‘more’?…
April 10, 2007 at 8:05 am
More, more, more….well done?
Meat and freezers?
Hey check out Ming’s New York DP. I swear it’s Beth.
April 10, 2007 at 11:00 am
mgilpin- Damned if I know. I’m vegetarian, so this store has never been a real concern of mine.
BDPH- The last time I saw Beth, she didn’t have a blue wig and sunglasses, so it’s a little tricky for me to tell. I was going to say, no, she’s got different eyebrows, but I checked her Facebook picture, and the eyebrows are pretty similar. Maybe it is she! Ask her.
April 10, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Nice B&W shot, I like the reflections in the glass.
April 10, 2007 at 11:53 pm
mgilpin: I’d guess the “more” means nonmammal meat. To me, any animal flesh is meat, but to most Americans, it seems only beef and pork are meat (except when talking about light or dark portions of poultry). But the main reason to call an establishment “Meat ‘n’ More” is simply that a store named only “Meat” would be silly. E.g. “Hey Jimmy, go pick up some meat at Meat, and I’ll meetcha later.”
(Though it kinda reminds me of a dollar store named “A Dollar”, which is sadly not in Monmouth County.)
April 11, 2007 at 12:25 am
Paul- Thanks! That’s a BP across the street. Thankfully, in black and white, the green and yellow and red of the gas station aren’t overpowering.
John- You’d know as well as I. Instead of calling the store “Meat,” though, they could always call it “The Meat Store,” “The Meat Place,” “Fresh Meat,” or any number of alternate names (preferably planned by a marketing person who could actually come up with GOOD alternatives).
April 11, 2007 at 1:16 am
Whoa. I just have to point out this link to a CD called “Meat ‘n’ More”, featuring cover art that will look quite familiar….
April 11, 2007 at 8:10 am
i thought i left a big meaty comment here?!
i like i like i like
April 11, 2007 at 10:01 am
John- ::laughs:: That’s it, all right! If you go to “CLICK HERE for Meat ‘n’ More… info about the album,” you can see the cover larger, and you will note that it says “Main Street, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 2001″ along the left. So, yep, those are the kinds of specials you USED to see in the window.
Pod- I LIKE YOUUUUUU
April 11, 2007 at 10:38 pm
bright ‘n’ shiny, meat ‘n’ more … gotta love the apostrophe-n-apostrophe. it’s so diverse, isn’t it? i once lived near a cigarettes ‘n’ subs. and if that isn’t brilliant use of the ‘n’, i don’t know what is.
i like this a lot. very, very cool. nice shootin!
April 12, 2007 at 12:03 am
I don’t know, I’m partial to “an’”. As in, “Meat an’ More.” ‘Cos I don’t know about your pronounciations, but that’s the way I say it.
April 12, 2007 at 12:50 am
My vote is with “‘n’”. Both because I say it with too little of a vowel sound to be worth devoting a whole letter to its spelling and because, in this case, it is really nice to preserve the symmetry. The “More” balances the “Meat” so nicely that it would kind of be a shame to ruin it with a lopsided conjunction.