I found out the other day that my neighbor's wife has family from Dunn, my hometown. After we chuckled over the fact that it truly is a small freaking world, he said to me, "her family one time brought us some stuff from this one bakery ..."
I knew exactly what bakery to which he was referring. "Oh, Sherry's Bakery, I bet," I said.
"Yeah, that's the one!" His eyes were wide and his grin was big as he reminisced on the baked goodies he got from the so-called "Sweetest Smelling Corner in Town."
This got me thinking: With all due respect to other long-time, established places, Sherry's Bakery is "that place" in Dunn that most people first think about if they have lived in Dunn, visited Dunn or even heard of Dunn. Heck, the Governor visited Sherry's a couple of weeks ago.
So whether you are from Dunn, Raleigh, Hickory, Waynesville, Duck or wherever, what is "that place" in your hometown? What's the one signature place that people think of when they think of your hometown?
2 comments:
In Smithfield it would have to be either Crickets Hotdogs or The Little Brown Jug.
For Rocky Mount, until Hurricane Floyd, it was Bob Melton's Barbecue. After that, it is either Central Cafe or Anne's Donughts.
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