Sculpin $8.99 at Jewel?

Is this a question or a statement? What is this?

 

I was thinking the same thing.

 

My local jewel doesnt carry Sculpin at all

 

6 packs? Sure it wasn't bombers? I'd actually buy this stuff finally at that price for a sixer.

 

Yeah we have everything you mentioned except Ballast Point. I've found some decent deals there too, 4-pack of GI Christmas Ale for $2.49, for example.

 

Jewel sometimes has good clearance deals. Gotta check the bottling dates/codes though. Some are o-l-d.

 

Headed to jewel!

 

Are you all from out of town? It's "The Jewels," not Jewel!

 

Never heard a single person say this until now.

 

Git yer cahr out of da gahrach and drive et to da jewels to pick up some sculpin.

 

Yeah, they call it Jewels when u get closer to the city. They don't call it that in the burbs.

 

Mostly southsiders that have lived in the city their whole life. Same people say "soldiers field"

 

It must be a south side thing. Grew up in the burbs, and have lived on the North and West sides for 10+ years. I've never heard Jewels.

 

It's not a south side thing; it's a generational one, with some degree of blue collar-ness to it as well.

My ancestors hail from the Wicker Park-Bucktown Polish enclave of the '40s, '50s and '60s; I grew up in Lyons in the '70s and LaGrange in the '80s. My dad and uncle (a USPS employee and city cop, respectively) have ridiculously old school Chicago accents and are prone to remark that they're "going to the Jewels to buy a couple two tree things." As do/are all of their friends from childhood.

But friends of mine from Libertyville and Waukegan recall this usage, as does my wife, who is from NW Indiana (okay, that's basically the far south side, though her dad was a Cubs fan).

Of course, a friend who lives in Beverly says people still talk that way in her neighborhood....

 

Never heard of "Jewels" until now. Been going there since I was a wee lad- 50 years ago (5 years old. About the same time I had my first unforgettable sips of beer!)

 

My Dad grew up in Stickney. Down by the sanitation plant, over by there. He has 3 brothers (or perhaps I should say brudders). When the 4 of them get together it's straight out of an SNL sketch. I have an uncle who've we've called "Uncle Moose" since childhood for Christ's sake. Most of my extended family speaks fluent "Chicago-esse." The Jewels is one of the more acceptable phrases uttered during normal family conversations.