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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Friday Evening Open Thread: *Everything* Is Political

Friday Evening Open Thread: *Everything* Is Political

by Anne Laurie|  February 19, 20216:57 pm| 148 Comments

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And very, very stupid…

I'd like to see some flash polling on this. Technically, the President mispronounced Meijer by pluralizing it. But it's common usage for a lot of Michigan folks who might hear it as a statement of solidarity. Ope! https://t.co/H2KxD8bux0

— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) February 19, 2021

During the fifteen years I spent in Michigan, it was never not Meijers. (I think that’s how I filled out the many, many checks I wrote there.) Twenty-four-seven, all-purpose shopping, much loved!

If there were only vaccines at one Meijer, he would have been incorrect. However, many Meijer stores have vaccines — many MEIJERS ? https://t.co/6gLW8dzL3P

— Gretchen Whitmer (@gretchenwhitmer) February 19, 2021

For the record, no comment. https://t.co/3DpRWcxFjx

— Rep. Peter Meijer (@RepMeijer) February 19, 2021

I’ll also say this:
1. Meijers is a treat. I try to go every visit back to Michigan.
2. My parents met at the Okemos Meijers, 10 minutes from MSU. I remember visiting the cashiers.
3. Can buy everything there: fruit, a bottle of vodka, a tree, a shirt, a goldfish, milk, etc. https://t.co/4nNBD0HAiL

— Mark M. (@epiphanyinbmore) February 19, 2021

If the pronunciation of Meijers becomes a partisan issue I’m moving to New Zealand.

— Crypto Blood (@Bloodytrader) February 19, 2021

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  1. 1.

    Kent

    February 19, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    I guess Trump is truly gone when this is what we have to argue about.

  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    February 19, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    @Kent:  It is a relief, is it not?

  3. 3.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    What color was his suit when be said it?

  4. 4.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:03 pm

    Cruz is like “Thank God no one will be talking about me anymore!”

  5. 5.

    tom

    February 19, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    As a native Michigander, I will say that here all businesses that are named after people are referred to by their possessives: Meijer’s, Ford’s (I work at Ford’s), Kroger’s (I am going to Kroger’s to pick up some veggies), etc. It’s the way we roll.

  6. 6.

    Bandit

    February 19, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    does anybody say “I am going to Meijer”? NO NO NO NO “I am going to Meijers”, “I got it at Meijers”, etc.

    Joe is completely in the right on this.

    Just ask Sandy the Horse.

    The appellation “Meijers” probably comes from the longer name “Meijer’s Thrifty Acres” which was in use for a very long time.

  7. 7.

    BruceFromOhio

    February 19, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    Fucker Carlson: The Green New Deal is obviously affecting the President’s speech.

  8. 8.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    Meijeri?
    Meijerpodus?

  9. 9.

    debbie

    February 19, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    Always Meijers in OH.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    I look forward to Psaki’s response to the inevitable question.

  11. 11.

    Mustang Bobby

    February 19, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    When I lived in Michigan, it was Meijer Thrifty Acres.  We dubbed it Meijer Shifty Takers.

  12. 12.

    Ivan X

    February 19, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    I am loving these slow news days.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    @Ivan X:

    This is what passes as a Friday news dump these days.

  14. 14.

    bbleh

    February 19, 2021 at 7:12 pm

    Political reporting is like finance: we could quietly lobotomize 2/3 of the people “working” in it and instead get them doing something useful — picking up trash? repairing rail beds? fixing abandoned properties? — and not only would nobody would miss them but the world would be a better place.

  15. 15.

    Benw

    February 19, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    @debbie: always Meijers in northern IL.

    #alwaysmeijers

  16. 16.

    JAFD

    February 19, 2021 at 7:14 pm

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    https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/tag/jackals/

    Have great weekend, irregardless.

  17. 17.

    debbie

    February 19, 2021 at 7:14 pm

    Current poll numbers (351 votes):

    Meijer

    41.5%

    Meijers

    58.5%

  18. 18.

    West of the Rockies

    February 19, 2021 at 7:14 pm

    OT, but FSM I wish Zergnet would stop showing a picture of Trump cramming a forkful of food into his gaping pie hole.  That ad shows up a lot here.

  19. 19.

    Benw

    February 19, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    @Baud: “aviator jacket grey”

    What color was his suit when be said it?

  20. 20.

    Faithful Lurker

    February 19, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    I spent 30 years in Michigan. We called it lovingly Meijers Shitty Acres. No one calls it Meijer. We should be pleased that that is the only thing they can find fault with Biden.

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 19, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    Lived in Michigan for nine years. Meijers. Always Meijers.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    February 19, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    This is like that time whe VP Biden got criticised for speaking of “Bosniacs” — which turned out to be the correct way to refer to the people of Bosnia.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Good memory.

  24. 24.

    dexwood

    February 19, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    @Elizabelle: ​
     
    Too late to the last thread, but saw your dog toy request. My terrier/weasel cross can chew pieces off the fluff and tuff toys in about 3 minutes. No stuffing, true, but I still ended up taking small pieces away from him. He loves the Ruff Dawg Peanuts. They really hold up to his teeth and you can put treats inside them. They’re soft and flexible, but strong.

  25. 25.

    Juliet

    February 19, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    Grew up in western Michigan going to meijers thrifty acres or just meijers. Received my bachelor’s at MS U. What a dumb thing to criticize him for.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    February 19, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    @West of the Rockies

    Stress eating – Valentine’s Day love note from Kim never arrived.

  27. 27.

    Elma

    February 19, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    They moved into Wisconsin over the past 5 – 8 years.  Definitely Meijers here.

  28. 28.

    Catherine D.

    February 19, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    @Baud: OTOH, Fly Me to Cancun

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    February 19, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    Michigander Rs also got their panties in a wad because he didn’t praise the height of the trees?

  30. 30.

    Abnormal Hiker

    February 19, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    @Baud: or is it Meijerpodes as in octopodes?

  31. 31.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:23 pm

    @Abnormal Hiker:

    That’s what I meant to type.

  32. 32.

    Kattails

    February 19, 2021 at 7:24 pm

    I have so much stuff to catch up on and really gotta get off line but just ran across this adorable doggie helping her human make a snowman, thought the juicers would enjoy it.

  33. 33.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 19, 2021 at 7:25 pm

    I definitely always thought it had an S but I grew up in CO, land of the King Soopers

  34. 34.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    February 19, 2021 at 7:26 pm

    I lived in Ohio, and yes, it was “Meijer’s” for me – I saw it as an adjective of the implied noun. “I stopped by Meijer’s (store).”
    I knew of people were were a bit snobbish about it – they were probably hung up on “less” versus “fewer”, too – but I’m all but certain I remember TV ads speaking of great specials at your local “Meijers”.
    I worked at one for a while – my only union job so far. Of course, I was working two jobs and sleeping when I dared, so I don’t remember much difference between that and any other service job.​

  35. 35.

    Mezz

    February 19, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    @Mustang Bobby:

    That’s the official name of the store, and I’m pretty sure their advertising jingle included it in that specific phrasing — i.e. “… at Meijer Thrifty Acres … Why Pay More.”

    I worked at one for a winter when I was a kid, I lived in Michigan for 22 years. NOBODY every fucking said “I’m going to Meijer.” Because you’d sound like a clown. Still called it “Meijers” when I was there this summer.

    I agree though in general: great news dump.

  36. 36.

    Mezz

    February 19, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    Also shout out to all the Juicer Michiganders!

  37. 37.

    Just One More Canuck

    February 19, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    @Baud: Psaki: “Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?”

  38. 38.

    debbie

    February 19, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    @Kattails:

    ?, especially wiping his paws off when entering the house.

  39. 39.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    It’s pronounced like “major,” right?

  40. 40.

    satby

    February 19, 2021 at 7:30 pm

    Meijers. As it was originally Meijer’s xx. And I called the the reporter an ass on twitter for such inane dumbfuckery, because he lives there and knows that’s what everyone calls it.

    The cult of the savvy will kill us all.

  41. 41.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:30 pm

    @satby:

    He got retweeted. That’s all they care about.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    February 19, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    Have folks from Kansa or Massachusett chimed in?

    Really, why is this mishegass a story at all?

  43. 43.

    Brachiator

    February 19, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    I’d like to see some flash polling on this. Technically, the President mispronounced Meijer by pluralizing it.

    I’d like to see some flash polling on “who gives a shit?”

  44. 44.

    Alison Rose

    February 19, 2021 at 7:33 pm

    Just found out that my parents’ GP finally has the vaccine, and they’ll both be getting their first shots on Monday! I’m really glad…the roll-out in our county has been a mess and it was so confusing figuring out if they were both eligible yet or not, and where to go if they were, and which locations even had appointments. Mom is 73, Dad will be 79 in a few months. They haven’t gone anywhere since March except the grocery store (where only my mom goes inside) and a few trips to the doctor’s office. But this will make me feel a lot more comfortable about that!

  45. 45.

    Mary G

    February 19, 2021 at 7:35 pm

    Vaccines are getting canceled all over because of deliveries not showing up due to weather. Disneyland in Orange County has been shut until Monday, possible longer, and Anaheim Convention Center, where I was re-routed to, may not open at all next week. I know it’s not “four weeks and not a minute longer,” but it still feels stressful.

  46. 46.

    satby

    February 19, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    @Mary G: Shipping is a nightmare right now. All over the country, and all carriers.

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 19, 2021 at 7:40 pm

    What a refreshing (and pointless) thing to be debating!  I need green beans, sponges and salsa.  Time for a trip to Aldi.

  48. 48.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:40 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Aldis.

  49. 49.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 19, 2021 at 7:42 pm

    @Baud: And Target’s and Jewel’s! :P

  50. 50.

    Ken

    February 19, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    @Just One More Canuck: I was thinking more “sawed-off shotgun or machete”.

  51. 51.

    Delk

    February 19, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    @Brachiator: isn’t that flush polling?

  52. 52.

    MagdaInBlack

    February 19, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: New recipe?

  53. 53.

    Delk

    February 19, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: the jewels

  54. 54.

    Elizabelle

    February 19, 2021 at 7:45 pm

    @dexwood:   Yea!  Ruff Dawg peanuts.  Available locally.  Looks perfect.  Thank you for the suggestion.

    On this page of technicolor toys. https://ruffdawg.com/play-ruff/

  55. 55.

    RSA

    February 19, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    @tom: As a native Michigander, I will say that here all businesses that are named after people are referred to by their possessives: Meijer’s, Ford’s (I work at Ford’s), Kroger’s (I am going to Kroger’s to pick up some veggies), etc. It’s the way we roll.

    Nordstrom’s, here.

  56. 56.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 19, 2021 at 7:47 pm

    @Mary G: Did you get the Pfizer? If so…

    Two positive developments this week could potentially expand access to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a time when nations around the world are trying to ramp up vaccinations.
    A study in Israel showed that the vaccine is robustly effective after the first shot, echoing what other research has shown for the AstraZeneca vaccine and raising the possibility that regulators in some countries could authorize delaying a second dose instead of giving both on the strict schedule of three weeks apart as tested in clinical trials.

  57. 57.

    Gravenstone

    February 19, 2021 at 7:47 pm

    Fuck, I worked at one in the 80s. It was fucking Meijers!!

  58. 58.

    Ken

    February 19, 2021 at 7:48 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I need green beans, sponges and salsa.

    Worst Chopped basket ever?

  59. 59.

    mali muso

    February 19, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    Wow, if this is the best Friday news scandal our media betters can come up with, 2021 is shaping up to be pretty boring. And I love boring.

  60. 60.

    Brachiator

    February 19, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    @Delk:

    isn’t that flush polling?

    Ha! Pretty much.

  61. 61.

    Warblewarble

    February 19, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    If I buy two lamps at Aldi ,would they be aldis lamps.

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 19, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    @Just One More Canuck: this is what she sounds like when she does that

    Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 5h
    Jen Psaki on AF1: “I can assure you that with millions of people in Texas still suffering, we are not spending time, energy, or breath analyzing Sen. Cruz‘s whereabouts or his group chat.”

    (also a way of making sure that a good story on her non-reaction includes an explanation of the leaked group chat, which leak indicates Ted Cruz’s friends don’t like him either.)

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    February 19, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    Good (short) thread:

    Boebert is essentially the apogee of the Republican Party’s long transition from governing to being a financial institution that controls a secondary market in white grievance. And it turns out that’s much easier than governing!

    — Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) February 19, 2021

  64. 64.

    PPCLI

    February 19, 2021 at 7:52 pm

    @Amir Khalid: You’ve touched a nerve with me. I remember the smug face of Cokie Roberts on PBS (I think it was) after the Biden-Palin debate, while she said (roughly; I quote from memory) “If Sarah Palin had said “Bosniaks” people wouldn’t let her forget it.”)

    And of course, it Roberts didn’t know what the f*ck she was talking about, but that didn’t keep her from exercising the droit du villageur and smugly dismissing someone who did know what he was talking about.

    In fact, Roberts was wrong for a significant reason, that of course she couldn’t bother to ask about before blabbing. The people who live in Bosnia are called Bosnians. There are three principal religious groups: Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic and Muslim. There are three corresponding ethnicities: Serbians (overwhelmingly, but not universally, Orthodox), Croats (overwhelmingly, but not universally Catholic), and Bosniaks (Overwhelmingly but not universally Muslim).

    Since the parties to the negotiations were the different ethnic groups, it wouldn’t be correct to refer to the Bosniaks as “the Bosnian Muslims”, though many people did, somewhat inexactly.

    Since Biden was careful in his use of diplomatic language, since he had played a crucial role in the negotiations, he of course knew all of this. Roberts didn’t have a clue. But she couldn’t resist acting like the clever kid on the schoolyard, savvy villager wise to the ways of Washington.

    When I hear the name “Cokie Roberts” (RIP) I always think first of that infuriating moment.

  65. 65.

    CliosFanBoy

    February 19, 2021 at 7:54 pm

    @tom: same in Ohio.  (sorry, but yes, OHIO)

  66. 66.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    @CliosFanBoy:

    Ohios.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    February 19, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    I will take this opportunity to repeat that “Czechia” is now the approved short name for the Czech Republic. I am trying to make it a thing.

  68. 68.

    Mary G

    February 19, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I got the Moderna, but I’m sure it’ll be fine even if it’s a week or two late. Just a first world problem – housemate took the day off, I made other doctors’ appointments, really nothing compared to what people in Texas are going through.

  69. 69.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 19, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    @Delk: LOL Stop it.

  70. 70.

    PPCLI

    February 19, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    I look forward to reading Oosting’s Tweet if Biden ever visits NYC and refers to “Sixth Avenue”.

    “Well, aktually, its name is Avenue of the Americas”

  71. 71.

    Baud

    February 19, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    Czechias.

  72. 72.

    Kenneth Krasity

    February 19, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    Yup, 50+ years in MI and it was always Meijers. And Ford Motor Co is usually ‘Fords’

  73. 73.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 19, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    @MagdaInBlack: Salsa-braised sponges with green beans!

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    February 19, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, i nearly laughed out loud earlier when I got to the “group chat” mention.  I thought that slipped the shiv in nicely, with a smile.

  75. 75.

    Brachiator

    February 19, 2021 at 8:00 pm

    @Mary G:

    Vaccines are getting canceled all over because of deliveries not showing up due to weather. Disneyland in Orange County has been shut until Monday, possible longer, and Anaheim Convention Center, where I was re-routed to, may not open at all next week. I know it’s not “four weeks and not a minute longer,” but it still feels stressful.

    I am counting on a rollout of the vaccine to neighborhood pharmacies. But this too may be delayed.

    It is also curious that Kaiser has not received a larger allotment.

  76. 76.

    Cacti

    February 19, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    For some quality internet trolling:

    Instagrammer @Quentin.Quarantino has raised $400,000 for Planned Parenthood in memory of Rush Limbaugh.

    He made the first donation of $100, with the caption of “It’s what Rush would have wanted”.

    LOL

  77. 77.

    Delk

    February 19, 2021 at 8:02 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I was using my native south-side accent.

  78. 78.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 19, 2021 at 8:02 pm

    @Brachiator:

    It is also curious that Kaiser has not received a larger allotment.

    Kaisers.

  79. 79.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:03 pm

    Has anybody posted ToneDeaf Ted returning from Cancún yet? This is really good.

    Tone Deaf Ted sup @tedcruz? Really? ?#ToneDeafTed pic.twitter.com/IMOrPY9CR4— Reesus Patriot™ (@ReesusP) February 19, 2021

  80. 80.

    Ken

    February 19, 2021 at 8:04 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): It will always be CZ to me.

  81. 81.

    MisterForkbeard

    February 19, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    @Alison Rose: So cool! My folks had the same news: They’re getting the vaccine on Thursday.

    I’m really, really happy about it. They’ve been isolating (at my initial insistence) since mid-March of last year.

  82. 82.

    WhatsMyNym

    February 19, 2021 at 8:07 pm

    In Seattle it’s Fred Meyer’s, which is now by Kroger’s.

  83. 83.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 19, 2021 at 8:08 pm

    @PPCLI: Thank you for adding that clarification to Amir’s post. Bosniaks are an ethnic subset of Bosnians.

  84. 84.

    Brachiator

    February 19, 2021 at 8:09 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I will take this opportunity to repeat that “Czechia” is now the approved short name for the Czech Republic. I am trying to make it a thing.

    Check.

  85. 85.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    February 19, 2021 at 8:09 pm

    @Ken:

    České země or go home.

  86. 86.

    Don K

    February 19, 2021 at 8:12 pm

    @tom:  True. Forty-two years in the Detroit area here. The former paramount department store in Detroit, formally J.L. Hudson (later the Dayton-Hudson Department Store Company), was always Hudsons. The envelopes for credit-card payments were addressed to Hudson’s.

    Funny, but I’ve never heard anyone say they work at Chrysler’s. It’s only, “I work for Ford’s.” Joe had this one right – it’s Meijer’s, goddammit!

    Now if he had a meeting or a fundraiser on Lahser Road and called it “Lasher”, I’d call him an honorary Detroiter!

    P.S. It’s really not just Detroit. I grew up near Philadelphia, and the John Wanamaker department store was “Wanamaker’s”; Strawbridge & Clothier was “Strawbridge’s”. Even New Yorkers turned R.H. Macy into “Macy’s”, to the point where that’s what’s on the store now.

  87. 87.

    Ken

    February 19, 2021 at 8:13 pm

    Baud, I admire your effort, but I think you’ve got it backward. Rather than add the nineteenth letter to every word, the right-wing will more likely completely eliminate it from their repertoire, like in that lipogrammatic book by Mark Dunn, “Ella Minnow Pea.” Which now that I’ve tried it, I realize can be quite difficult. Good thing I didn’t pick ‘E’ or ‘T’.

  88. 88.

    MisterForkbeard

    February 19, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @Brachiator: My Czech colleagues have been calling it that for years. It’s official now? Neato.

  89. 89.

    Formica

    February 19, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    Born in Detroit; moved to SF in 1983. Kroger’s was for groceries, Meijer’s (Thrifty Acres, as noted above) was for most everything else. Always thought the “ij” was a “y” as a kid.

    Also too, clearly our Beltway Village Overlords are returning to their natural place as our betters, criticizing the President for using a local idiom correctly because it is ostensibly grammatically incorrect, which is why we must destroy Obamacare and stop taxing hardworking billionaires.

    Shorter:

    Trump: Storm the Capitol! Stolen election! Stop the steal!

    Village: What is the harm in humoring him for this little bit of time?

    Biden: Meijers!

    Village: IMPEACH!

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    February 19, 2021 at 8:17 pm

    @Baud:

    The Czechiaks.

  91. 91.

    rikyrah

    February 19, 2021 at 8:19 pm

    I call it Meijers.

    That’s not its name???

  92. 92.

    Ken

    February 19, 2021 at 8:20 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): I have to disagree with “Boebert is essentially the apogee”.  Like any claim of peak wingnut, it doesn’t recognize all the GQP out there now saying “Hold my beer.”

  93. 93.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:20 pm

    Rap battle between Don Jr and Mitch:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BUKpkQXlTo

  94. 94.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:22 pm

    @MisterForkbeard:

    I don’t seem to be able to do a capital C-hacheck, even with my Czech keyboard, but the traditional name for the Bohemian part of Czechoslovakia was Cechy (with a hacheck on the first C), so I’ve always called it Czechia too.

  95. 95.

    rikyrah

    February 19, 2021 at 8:22 pm

    @PPCLI:

    I will never forget her calling 44 going to Hawaii.for Christmas vacation- his birth state-Exotic??

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 19, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    GOD his Mitch is good!

  97. 97.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    It drew my husband from the next room to laugh.

  98. 98.

    TheOBP

    February 19, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    I don’t even know what a Meijer is, but here in Austin all the people I know buy their liquor at a chain called Twin Liquors, and everyone without fail calls it Twin’s

  99. 99.

    Alison Rose

    February 19, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I might have just watched that three times in a row.

  100. 100.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    February 19, 2021 at 8:32 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Č? I did that on my phone by pressing and holding c. But you’re probably on a computer.

  101. 101.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    It’s addictive.

  102. 102.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I probably am.

  103. 103.

    Ken

    February 19, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I google for the character and cut-and-paste it.

  104. 104.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    @Ken:
    Čechy

  105. 105.

    Delk

    February 19, 2021 at 8:39 pm

    ě š č ř ž ý á í é
    Czech keyboard on iPad.

  106. 106.

    Brachiator

    February 19, 2021 at 8:41 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    but the traditional name for the Bohemian part of Czechoslovakia was Cechy

    Hmm. “A Scandal is Cechy” is not quite as catchy as “A Scandal in Bohemia.”

  107. 107.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    @Delk:

    I have the letters but I can’t capitalize them. It’s okay!

  108. 108.

    rivers

    February 19, 2021 at 8:43 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I am laughing so hard. I’ve now watched it four times.

  109. 109.

    Delk

    February 19, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I use the Polish keyboard everyday and sometimes forget to switch back to English and all my words are either marked with the red squiggle or auto corrected to some weird word. Lol

  110. 110.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    @Delk: Misspelling things in Polish is no joke!

  111. 111.

    zhena gogolia

    February 19, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    @rivers:

    You won’t stop!

  112. 112.

    Delk

    February 19, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    @zhena gogolia: ha! I kept writing ‘zs’ instead of ‘sz’ until I finally figured out that my last name starts with a ‘sz’!   Lol ?

  113. 113.

    NotMax

    February 19, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    @RSA

    Macy’s.

    (And for the true oldsters, Gimbel’s.)

    ;)

  114. 114.

    SFAW

    February 19, 2021 at 9:05 pm

    @Delk:

    I use the Polish keyboard everyday

    At least you’re not using a reverse Polish keyboard.

  115. 115.

    NotMax

    February 19, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    @Steeplejack

    Would be easier for people to remember if they’d split into Czecho and Slovakia.

  116. 116.

    West of the Cascades

    February 19, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    Can’t wait for Glenn Kessler to give this Four Pinocchios. His and Politifact’s Safaris of Inanity over the last four weeks are insufferable.

  117. 117.

    Bobby Thomson

    February 19, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    Literally no one in Michigan says “Meijer.”  Fuckin’ coastal elitist carpetbaggers.

  118. 118.

    Brachiator

    February 19, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    @SFAW:

    At least you’re not using a reverse Polish keyboard.

    I thought I was using a reverse Polish keyboard, but I had to double Czech.

  119. 119.

    Emma from FL

    February 19, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    For twenty years I visited Grand Rapids for Thanksgiving. It was always Meijers. As in “damn it, it’s Wednesday night and we ran out of (each year it was something different). We gotta go to Meijers!”

  120. 120.

    Brachiator

    February 19, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    @NotMax:

    Would be easier for people to remember if they’d split into Czecho and Slovakia.

    I thought that Czecho was the forgotten Marx Brother.

  121. 121.

    Marc S

    February 19, 2021 at 9:57 pm

    @Juliet: then, Juliet, you also know there’s no such place as Okemos! Meridian Twp., if you please.

  122. 122.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    February 19, 2021 at 9:58 pm

    I grew up in Michigan but moved out around the time they moved into my section of the burbs. For what it’s worth, I always heard it as Meijers. People add the “s” to a lot of store names like that.

    Having said that, this is like a milder version of the fucking tan suit bullshit.

  123. 123.

    aliasofwestgate

    February 19, 2021 at 9:59 pm

    @RSA:  i concur as a michigander myself. Though i’m now in Wisconsin, and even over here they call it ‘meijers’.  Because that’s the way the ads call it too.

  124. 124.

    StringOnAStick

    February 19, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    Husband was born and raised in Michigan; it’s Meijers!

  125. 125.

    satby

    February 19, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    @Delk: I was using my native south-side accent.

    Then it would have been “da Joowals”

  126. 126.

    something fabulous

    February 19, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    @Delk:

    What up, my Chicagoans?! Represent!

    I can’t remember for sure but I *think* my mom didn’t take it as far as “The A & P’s”– but always definitely with the “The.”

    And when we ultimately got Meijer’s (in The Niles :) , where my dad moved for assisted living), DEFINITELY with the possessive, always, even brand-new with no history.

  127. 127.

    NotMax

    February 19, 2021 at 10:13 pm

    @something fabulous

    When it came to supermarkets, NY had Bohack’s and Gristede’s and Waldbaum’s.

    Department stores? Nobody said they were going to E.J. Korvette, it was always Korvette’s.

    And might as well point out the book and the movie aren’t Breakfast at Tiffany.

    ;)

  128. 128.

    Butter Emails

    February 19, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    Born and raised in Michigan. Worked for Meijer 5 summers and holidays at the checkout lane. Always referred to it as Meijers as do probably 90% of people in Michigan. I’m assuming that will change now that this has become a partisan issue.

  129. 129.

    something fabulous

    February 19, 2021 at 10:22 pm

    @NotMax: Good point! Take that, coastal elitists!

  130. 130.

    Dan

    February 19, 2021 at 10:30 pm

    It’s always Meijers… The reason is that the original name of the store was “Meijer’s Thrifty Acres”.  It was later shortened to “Meijers”.

  131. 131.

    tam1MI

    February 19, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    @Bandit:The appellation “Meijers” probably comes from the longer name “Meijer’s Thrifty Acres” which was in use for a very long time.

    A picture of the very first Meijer supermarket ever built.

    Note name on sign.

  132. 132.

    jonas

    February 19, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    So was this like saying “Wegmans’ses” or something while visiting Central New York? What a foucks packs.

  133. 133.

    Ruckus

    February 19, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    @debbie:

    Lived in OH for 11 yrs, never heard anything but MeijerS.

    Never said it any different either, and it’s spelled out on the front of the building.

  134. 134.

    Ken

    February 19, 2021 at 11:41 pm

    So basically we’re agreed on the historical tidbit that virtually every store was named after its owner, so is X’s store?

  135. 135.

    Adam Geffen

    February 19, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    As a born and raised and current Michigander this is the best post ever. I do most of my grocery shopping at the Meijers on 8 mile (yes that 8 mile). And during my undergrad days grocery shopping was always 2am at Meijers. My roommates and I would all go together and load up on like a months worth of crappy food. ?

  136. 136.

    Anne Laurie

    February 19, 2021 at 11:56 pm

    @Marc S: Chief Okemos erasure!

    (In my day, the Michiganders were very proud of him…)

  137. 137.

    lige

    February 20, 2021 at 12:11 am

    I can’t remember what I called it when I lived in Michiana.  I just thought of it as the place with good deals on produce that tried to make you go through self check with a double whammy of not having enough checkers and seemingly training the ones they had to go as slow as possible (not to mention the most convoluted inefficient checkstand I have ever seen).

  138. 138.

    Ida Slapter

    February 20, 2021 at 12:18 am

    Lifelong Michigander. Meijers all the way!

    For those who wonder, it’s pronounced like Meyer. Frederick Meijer came from the West side of our Lower Peninsula, which was home to a lot of Dutch immigrants. Van Andel and DeVos (Amway founders) are also of Dutch descent. I’ll have to find a pic of their original Dutch boy (not the paint one!) logo.

    Also, a onetime boyfriend worked at Chryslers. We all shopped at Kmarts and Krogers too. I had never heard of Meijers until some of my friends went to Michigan State University in East Lansing. I came up to visit for the first time, and they took me to the Meijers Thrifty Acres in nearby Okemos as a special treat. The drinking age was 18 then, and I was dazzled by the liquor department alone!

  139. 139.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    February 20, 2021 at 1:15 am

    @Kent: It’s quite possible Trump lost of the vote in the Nevada because he is insisted on pronouncing the state name in the stupid, Angelized East Coast  way and not the proper Spanish way then lecturing the locals about it.

  140. 140.

    evodevo

    February 20, 2021 at 7:35 am

    @debbie: ​
     Yep…Meijers in KY also…the ads say “sale at Meijers” or whatever…what is WRONG with these people?

  141. 141.

    Steeplejack

    February 20, 2021 at 9:32 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Actually, it’s the reverse. Trump said “Nev-ah-da,” which is close to the Spanish pronunciation, but the locals say “Nev-ad-uh.”

  142. 142.

    Cereal

    February 20, 2021 at 9:33 am

    The plural of Meijer is actually Meijeren. Just saying.

  143. 143.

    Miss Bianca

    February 20, 2021 at 10:11 am

    Fuck no. Ex-Michiganian here, and it’s always been Meijer’s. As in, Meijer’s Thrifty Acres, or Shifty Takers, or whatever stoner soubriquet takes your fancy. And yes, I miss Meijer’s and wish they were here (in CO).

  144. 144.

    JoeC

    February 20, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    When my in-laws used to live in Michigan, we would visit most Thanksgivings and part of the fun was to go to Meijer. We would usually buy goodies, ugly Christmas socks, wine, etc. It was always fun. I think they often referred to it as ‘Meijers’ but I may be wrong. The big store where I live is Wegmans, which was started by a ‘Wegman’, we often call it Wegs. Anyway, who cares ?

  145. 145.

    The Other Bob

    February 20, 2021 at 1:57 pm

    Michigander here.  We say “Meijers”.  Maybe I mean Meijer’s.  Not sure.  I never say “work at Fords” though.  I say Ford.  Not that I ever worked there, but have owed a couple.

  146. 146.

    The Other Bob

    February 20, 2021 at 1:58 pm

    @Cereal: I believe that is:  “We’re goin’ Meijerin.”

  147. 147.

    brantl

    February 20, 2021 at 3:31 pm

    @Mustang Bobby:  Yep

  148. 148.

    brantl

    February 20, 2021 at 5:33 pm

    @Baud:  No, Myers

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