No way. You are still part of the south if restaurants sell sweet tea. You can get it as far north as Richmond, but north of that the wait staff just looks at you funny…
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Unless things have changed recently. I lived in Richmond 20 years ago and sweet tea was hard to find.
I used to visit quite regularly and most places had it that I went to… but could never get it in DC. But who knows it might have just been the 3 or 4 places that I went to…
It’s a grocery store?!
This craziness over a damn grocery store deserves a HUGE ‘W T (pick of your expletive)!!!’
I mean really?..tailgating for a grocery store opening?
Remember when everybody was hot & bothered when Whole Foods opened years ago, then Trader Joes, then it was Publix, Aldi, Lidl…you see where this is going?
It’s a grocery store…that’s it.
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It’s all part of the spectacle of consumption. A necessary component to the promise of meaning and human connection through the buying of more stuff.
It’s sad.
I need my tissues.
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I’m with Leo. I don’t get the excitement personally, but I’m all for those people finding joy in it. It’s not hurting anybody else and especially not you or me. so who cares?
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One way to avoid this phenomenon is for Raleigh entrepreneurs to organically start all of these enterprises. That will eliminate the mania when regional and national chains finally arrive in Raleigh.
One person’s grocery store is another person’s … (Fill in the blank). People like to get excited for some reason.
This is truth. When I’d go back home to NY for visits and order sweet tea, they just shrug and bring back a regular iced tea with a few sugar packets 
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You are lucky. I get raspberry flavored dishwater up North. All the sugar packets in the world can’t fix that mess. At least in Florida or NoVa I get decent unsweetened tea.
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You can get sweet tea all over the country at McDonald’s. I just had it the other day at O’Hare in Chicago.
On that note, my son is off of school and I took an early day. So we are headed to the Alamo for a movie later. Since we had some time to kill, he said he heard Wegmans was open. So here I am in ground zero. I don’t think I’ve felt this type of energy in a crowd since I was at Disney last year. It seems surreal all this for a grocery store. Though I guess it’s like a food hall too. Also the chicken sandwich at the burger bar is the truth.
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It really is Raleigh’s newest Food Hall. Definitely get a Danny’s Classic sub next time you go. It is (also) the truth!
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I feel you on this. I remember when Chick-fil-A opened in my town and the drive through was backed up around the corner for WEEKS. I don’t understand it, since I don’t actually like Chick-fil-A but, there’s no denying that people LOVE that place and get extremely excited. People feel the same way about certain grocery stores (especially the ones you mentioned). Again, I don’t understand it, but I’m also glad people are excited. We live in a society where some people think it’s cool to trash things that others get excited about, like we’re all in some giant middle school.
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When I am in Canada, they bring me hot tea. 
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In my small town, every new restaurant that opens is slammed for a min. of two weeks till everyone in this part of the county has eaten there. I’d never experienced anything like it before moving here. I don’t get it, but I don’t begrudge it either.
So my wife and I vacationed in Chamonix, France earlier this year…beautiful place in the Alps, lots of skiing/hiking. But we found this really cool activity—the Chamonix Luge—that I thought would be perfect for Dix Park. It’s basically a combination of a luge and a roller coaster (that’d be relatively low-maintenance compared to most coasters). It’s represented by the yellow line on the map below.
Each cart carries up to two people, and you’re dragged up to the top just like any other coaster. But the cool thing is that it’s a very slight elevation change, and once you’re at the top, it’s all gravity. You get going just fast enough to make it a great ride, but you have hand brakes for going into turns. I could totally see this being built into one of the hills at Dix without any towering, ugly structures. It just kind of glides low to the ground through the trees. I think it was a couple euros to ride, and we were scrambling to get back in line once we’d finished. It was one of our favorite activities on the trip!
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They also call them Alpine coasters or mountain coasters. It’s an attempt to include the whole family because there’s always that one kid who hates skiing. They’re at nearly every resort in CO now and see tons of activity. I was at Beech Mountain outside of Boone this weekend doing some downhill MTB and they are building one also. It’s hard to see but towards the top left of the photo.
Dix could start one near the old hospital portion and end near the greenway trail.
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Okay, so now that looks like super fun! I’d definitely be up for one of those!!!
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It was incredibly fun, good in most weather, and very kid-friendly. I could also envision this running down those hills and through the trees that slope southward in Pullen Park (from the RR tracks down toward the pond/carousel area).