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Tob, really? *looks at their website* I always thought they were just another St. Louis jewelry store. Interesting...they have 22 stores. Their St. Louis store is at the Promenade in Brentwood.
Where did you go to school at in St. Louis?
I used to see commercials for this place called the Jewelry Factory in Bethesda, MD...it talked about what they did, showed their location, and their staff outside the store waving. I thought this was merely a local DC joint, until I saw commercials here in Philadelphia for The Jewelry Factory in Norristown, PA (set up in the same way as the one in MD). Last weekend, I saw a commercial in the Boston area for the same place (though it had a slightly different name).
In other interesting differences:
--I've never seen scrapple or pork roll in St. Louis, though many of you that have never been to St. Louis or Chicago may be baffled by the "pork steak."
--Until I went to Chicago (and we have it in Philadelphia too), I never knew that Diet Rite came in 900 flavors other than Cola.
--In St. Louis, there is a local soda company called Vess, that makes about 8000 different flavors of soda, including knockoffs like Dr. Schnee (their version of Dr. Pepper), and more unusual soda flavors, like peach.
--In DC, Dr. Pepper products are distributed by Pepsi. Here in Philadelphia, they are distributed by Coke. In St. Louis, they are distributed directly by Dr. Pepper-Seven Up.
--In the midwest (particularly places like Indiana and Ohio, IIRC), there is a popular red creme soda called Big Red. I haven't seen a red creme soda here in Philadelphia yet (though we have white creme soda, like Barq's).
--When I lived in St. Louis, the only times I ever saw Fanta sodas were generally in a Coke soda fountain. When I started traveling outside St. Louis, I saw several flavors in cans (and they make like 8000 varieties too). Now, I'm seeing it in places here in Philadelphia in 20 oz. bottles.
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