Turkey Joints candy celebrates 100 yrs

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Kathy loves Turkey Joints candy. When we were in upstate NY the last time we went to the place where they are made on Doxtator Street in Rome to purchase some to bring home with us. We knew that they were expensive, but had no idea how much more expensive they had become since we had bought them many years ago, prior to moving here to Tennessee.

At $21 a jar we found it a bit expensive to really stock up on some for future munching. Luckily if you go to the factory store, they sell broken ones, as well as many, many more sweet treats. The broken turkey joints were still rather pricey at $13 for what I think was around a pound. Their chocolates are outstanding also. It reminded us of the old Fanny Farmer stores that were always a customary holiday stop this time of year. They make a wide variety of excellent hand made chocolates also. Kathy has a sweet tooth and loves good quality candy. We went there for turkey joints and left with $60 worth of assorted candies.

I imagine that it will become another regular stop on our shopping trip that we take prior to leaving for home when we come up there. We make our rounds to Pulaski Meat Market, Chanatry's, Meelan's meat market, Holland Farms, and sometimes a Rome mucklands produce place for a braid of fresh garlic.

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Wow I haven't had any of them in many a year. I think the last time was in the 80's. I saw them recently in the Street Corner Grocery on the busy corner and yes very very expensive. I went in to buy a regular size can of Hunts Tomato Sauce a couple days ago and noticed them. I bought the sauce and a few other things and after leaving the store I said to myself wow those few items were expensive. So I checked the receipt and low a behold that can of Hunts sauce cost $2.99. I went back to the store and said to the woman working there is this really $2.99!!! She said yes. I then said I don't want it I can get the same thing at Walmart for .99 cents. Talk about a markup. I will never shop there again. I also noticed that they are closing earlier now and that Jimmy John's also changed their hours to closed on Sundays an only open to 2PM or 3PM/ I knew that would happen soon what with a very limited amount of customers. I never see more that one of two people in Jimmy Johns and I have yet to see anyone in the grocery store. I hope they both close way to many eateries and over placed fancy stores downtown. If you go to the Wisk ( formerly Bite) place on Franklin Place you pay 5 times the amount for baked goods that you can get at any of the Italian pastry shops.

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We also have our share of overpriced retail outlets PB. For FRESH baked goods, as opposed to the boxed goods at the supermarket, we pay a ridiculous price. We have only ONE bakery in Bristol, and they are very expensive. A regular donut is $1.25. Once when Kathy was recovering from one of her back surgeries, one of her girlfriends brought her pastries from there. She liked one of those pastries particularly well so I went to buy her some more of them. The gooey little square, about 3 or 4 inches square was priced at over $5. They had fancy little pastries that were over $6. You can go out for a full breakfast for less than you would pay for coffee and a couple of donuts there.

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I never knew those turkey joints were made in Rome. And yep they ain't cheap, haven't had then in quite a while.

PB, you're right on those Hunt's tomatoes. Price Chopper frequently has them on sale for $.99, otherwise they're more then double that so I stock up when on sale.

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If you like good chocolate go check out the factory on Doxtator Street in Rome. She had lots of samples out the day we were there and I think Kathy tried every one of them, haha.