Land 0'Lakes Butter lady: It's amazing how my perspective changed once I learned some facts

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38. My mom used the Betty Crocker and A&P cookbooks.

A&P has a special fondness to me, it used to have a stamp book program that once the book was filled with stamps handed out with purchases, a person got sizeable discounts on the next purchase of groceries. I was a tiny boy, but I remember that.

More importantly for a Black southerner, A&P was the only grocery chain where I was raised that served everyone, regardless of race. It was in it's stores, tagging along behind my mom, that I first saw White people close up. Eventhough I was really young, I remember A&P and W.T. Grant, the only stores that served Black people without making them feel inferior, if they were served at all. Although they were gone before I started elementary school, I remember the "Whites Only" drinking fountains and toilets. A lot of people that never saw that have no appreciation for how dramatically life has changed for the better.