<p>Yes, we have Whole Foods, Fresh Market, farmers markets and lots of individual organic food stores. We even have indoor plumbing and electricity in some of the bigger cities.</p>
<p>*** by the way, Whole Foods is based out of Austin, Tx.</p>
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<p>There IS a Whole Foods in Winston-Salem…and Fresh Market too.</p>
<p>Isn’t Whole Foods actually <em>headquartered</em> in Texas?</p>
<p>I agree with Thumper: a lot of New England is rural and has little or no public transportation.</p>
<p>LOL-- we are all cross-posting. Bottom line to Pierre. There are organic food stores, gas-powered motor vehicles, plumbing, electricity and more than 2 TV stations in the South. Rumor has it they will be getting the internet one of these days…</p>
<p>Pierre <em>is</em> planning to go to Clemson, so presumably he has nothing against the South. :)</p>
<p>ok sorry sorry sorry</p>
<p>my experience was just based on a 10 day trip to the south and I didn’t see a Whole Foods during that time, just lots of Walmarts haha</p>
<p>don’t make me feel stupid by listing that the south has plumbing, TV stations and electricity…</p>
<p>Pierre, If you are a rising college student…you probably can’t afford to shop at Whole Foods anyway. My grad school son didn’t shop there (except for tea…he bought his tea at Whole Foods). BUT he was a regular at the Super Walmart (which by the way carries organic products also, including produce).</p>
<p>Just FYI…we don’t have a Super Walmart anywhere near where I live (also we don’t have public transportation), and the nearest Whole Foods is 25 miles away. </p>
<p>Rural is rural regardless of whether it’s north, south, east or west.</p>
<p>There is a Whole Foods on Magazine, near Tulane, no doubt to satisfy all those Yankees that go there.</p>
<p>There’s also a Whole Foods out here in Metairie, the suburb of New Orleans.</p>
<p>Oh, and what an outcry there was from the Garden District crowd in New Orleans when a Wal-Mart was proposed there. It never occurred to them that their maids might want to stop for reasonably priced laundry detergent on the way home from work. </p>
<p>We also have a Target now out here in Metairie. It is full of Tulane students shopping for their dorms. So they don’t have to stoop to going to Wal-Mart for their trash cans.</p>
<p>Whole Foods began in Austin and has locations all over the south, either through new stores or acquisitions. Thank God.</p>
<p>Montegut - I know LOTS of local New Orleans folks who go to Whole Foods - not just the transplanted Yankees. It was a bus barn for many of the years I lived nearby, but when it became a WF, it was considered quite a welcome change.</p>
<p>wow that’s interesting, I’ll have to tell my parents that Whole Foods was started in the south :)</p>
<p>because they constantly use that as an example of how unhealthy southerners are in their diet.</p>
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<p>aw geez…guess I’ll have to stop shopping at the local farmer’s market and go pick me up some fried pork loins!</p>
<p>Talk about stereotyping a whole region of the US! So - why on earth are you heading to the south for college?</p>
<p>Whole Foods has PLENTY of unhealthy foods in stock. I find that northerners eat every bit as much crap as southerners do. It’s just different crap.</p>
<p>haha again that’s not me, that’s my parents</p>
<p>I’m gonna get a list of all my parent’s stereotypes (what they’ve been teaching me) about the south tonight and you can help me tell the ones that are true and which ones aren’t ok? Cuz I don’t wanna head south for college and appear to be as ignorant as I am right now…</p>
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excellent idea! Will be happy to help confirm/deny any stereotypes for you!</p>
<p>MomofWildChild (that name fits me as well!) - the thing makes me NUTS about visiting my inlaws in the north is that they cook with NO SPICES!!! Salt, pepper, parsley and MAYBE a little garlic - that’s it! Maybe that’s just western PA - but it makes me really long to get back to my own kitchen!</p>
<p>We live in CT. We have a ton of spices we use every time we cook.</p>
<p>There ARE rural towns in the north.</p>
<p>There ARE rednecks in the north.</p>
<p>There poor folks in the north.</p>
<p>There are folks without internet in the north.</p>
<p>There is even SWEET TEA in the north (thank you McDonalds).</p>
<p>Glad to hear about your spices, thumper!!! My MIL has gotten used to how we cook (when she visits), but I just can’t get used to the blandness of the food they cook! My DH takes a travel-size bottle of Tabasco on our trips up there…and it’s HIS family!!! :)</p>
<p>I dislike Whole Foods intensely. Anytime I go in there, I feel like I am paying twice as much for the privilege of having brown spots on my produce. I do like my local farmers’ market, though. And spices.</p>
<p>If I lived in the South, I would have a vegetable garden for sure, and never set foot in a Whole Foods.</p>
<p>Do y’all (yes, I’m pandering) consider Austin the South? That’s a place I find really attractive.</p>
<p>When I went from the northeast to UVa law school many years ago, I was in culture shock for a semester. The main reason: my northern directness was considered rudeness. I figured it out eventually and changed my ways a bit and all was well. Of course this was back in the early 80’s and things could be totally different now. I loved UVa and it was well worth a semester of culture shock. I certainly would not discourage my midwestern daughters from going to a southern school, and there are several I will encourage them to apply to.</p>