Jungle Jim's

After a breakfast of bagels at Panera, today Kelli and I adventured to where ever the wind took us. It blew toward Jungle Jim's, an international food mart, that is located in Fairfield, Ohio. It's about 45 minutes from my apartment. When she first told me about Jungle Jim's on the day that we drove the I-275 loop, it sounded cool, but I did not understand exactly what it was. Today, months later, after getting directions from Kelli's sister, we finally went there.

Basically its six acres of grocery store. From the time you pull into the parking lot if feels like an amusement park! There is a "normal" section, like your local Kroger or Ingles. But the rest of the store is comprised of a huge variety of both familiar and unfamilar national and international foods.

International specialty sections include Asian, German, Hispanic, Indian, English, and European. Most of these sections are labeled by specific countries. It was awesome to see food from Japan and Thailand there. The Japanese stuff looked pretty authentic from what I remember, so hopefully the rest is as well. In the English section there were tons of teas. Germany had lots of cookies.

Yes, you read correctly! Jungle Jim's has the cleanest bathrooms in America!

They were pretty nice! This is not the real potty! However the outside doors into the restrooms looked like Port-a-Potties. Kelli and I looked at each other like, "Are you serious?" Then we opened the door to discover the cleanliness of a lifetime.
I found this both funny and disgusting!

Have you gotten your butter roll lately?

There were also some foods with really fun names. This was one...
And here are hot sauces with others. Now, there were other hot sauces with names that I took pictures of that I decided are inappropriate for this blog. So if you want to see them, let me know and I'll email those pictures to you.