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Taste of the Jungle One of the first things you see on the new section of building is this sign, beckoning you to come further. |
Jungle Jim's Pineapple Sign If Jungle Jim's has a logo, it's this. But they don't really have *a* logo, it's more of a collective... |
Suspended Monorail Car This place is so big that |
Start Your Carts The actual entrance to the store is properly marked and easy to find... and makes for an amusing picture on its own. |
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Kraft Car The Kraft car above the awning of the entrance adds something to the Start Your Carts bit. |
Lobster Chair This is one of the first things you see as you enter the store (except of course for the employees trying to stop you from taking pictures...). |
Sushi Bar The first of many specialty food sections all around the store; it's also not all that good, but it gets better from here. |
Olive Pit I didn't really know that there was that much variety to olives. I guess I was wrong. |
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Boar's Head Truck This marks the deli section. |
Shopper's Express Near the front of the store are the standard groceries, so those that don't need to look for all other kinds of food can get in and out quickly. It's a nice, and new, touch. |
The Big Cheese This marks the cheese section of the store from afar. |
Cheese Section And oh, it is a big section! |
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Cheese Section, II Though, perhaps, not as big as the booze section... |
Cheeses of the World Map They actually have the cheeses from all of these places. |
Cheese Crate The back of the Big Cheese. |
Starbucks Coffee Perhaps a questionable addition to the store, it's pretty much what you'd expect. |
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Cigar and Tobacco Section This is a good place to buy empty cigar boxes, which are good for storing all sorts of odd stuff. |
Hard Liquor Section I'm not sure why this is kept apart from the rest of the store so clearly... or at least from the other booze sections. |
Wine Section The wine section on its own is as big as many grocery stores. |
Wine Casks I think this is just for show, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had something aging in there anyway... |
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Expensive Wine Aisle It's somewhat blocked off, so kids don't break anything. |
Reserve Cellar This stuff is often nearly as expensive as the Expensive Wine Aisle. |
Outhouses What? Outhouses in a store? |
The Bathrooms Well, yes; they're entrances to the bathrooms! |
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Doggie Bathroom Even the dogs get a place to relieve themselves... |
Cold Beer Arrow This way to booze! |
Cold Beer Cave It's a cute trick, to make it a fully cold room. |
Two-Bill Jill A response to "Two Buck Chuck", but with Jungle Jill instead... |
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Cooking School Entrance Closed off, since it was in session; otherwise I would have tried to go in. |
Candy Bumper Car Candy and bumper cars. What could possibly go wrong with that combination? |
Coming Beer & Wine Events Maybe there will be some someday. |
Sorcerer Jim He's not exactly like Mickey in Fantasia, but he's close. |
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Elvis Lion This is one of the early highlights of the store, a dancing animtronic lion that sings Elvis songs. Here, he's dressed up for Christmas. |
Starlight Mint I shouldn't get the impression that I'm eating her brains. |
Peanut M&Ms M&Ms don't give me the same sense of cannibalism as the Starlight Mint, which is probably good. |
Amish Territory Meaning, "there be good cheese here!" |
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Cooking School This is the actual public face of the cooking school. |
Flying Pig They were like the Chicago Painted Cows, except in Cincinnati. You bet that Jungle Jim's got one. |
Tur-Duc-Hens The most decadent of all meats! |
Elvis A more straight-forward shot of their favorite mascot. |
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Elvis, in Context This does a better job of showing off everything around him. |
Beer Selection 1000 different beers? If only I could take advantage of this... |
Specialty Meats I can take advantage of this thing, anyway! |
Semi-Boneless Quail I don't know that I've ever had quail. I'm not sure what "semi-boneless" means, though. |
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Rattlesnake Meat It's expensive, but where else can you buy a frozen rattlesnake? |
Post Office A new addition to the middle of the store. I guess it's a good idea... |
Fear Da Tiger As this is in Ohio, there are all sorts of random local things around the store too. This is a good example. |
Root Family Farms I guess that the Root Family is from Washington. |
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Apple Poster #1 I actually sent for a copy of this for my Dad, but it never came. |
Apple Poster #2 Either one of these would be good for his class... |
Fruit Basket Poster ....but this is just kindof pretty-looking. |
Produce Section This is my Dad's favorite part; he's a Horticulture Professor, and loves to pick up odd things for his classes. |
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Climbing Monkeys These mark the bargain produce section. I don't really know why. |
Vegetables There's a lot of them. I guess that's the point. |
Blue Potatoes Dad always likes shots of blue potatoes, for whatever reason. |
Produce Signs This is how everything is written out in the store. I like the store-font idea. |
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Turnips Fight the Rutabegas! |
Peppers This was a beautiful shot. |
Peppers, II And this was more beautiful. I love the colors... |
Big G Cereal Band It's good to know that Lucky, the Trix Rabbit, and the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee played music for Gilligan. |
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SS Minnow The professor doesn't appear to like the music so much. |
Welcome Sign Welcome!, in the languages of the world. |
Welcome Sign, II It's a cute way to indicate that you're entering the foreign food section. |
Welcome Sign, III I like the Bart Simpson |
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Yellow Yam No, I have no idea what this tastes like. |
Kimchi Section What other stores do you know of with a Kimchi section? |
Kimchi Sign And it's even properly labelled for easy spotting. |
Odd Ice Creams Corn & Cheese; Buko Salad; and Durian. I want to buy them all at some point, just to try them. |
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Crab Legs I just like the idea of having a vat of them. |
Rainbow Trout Okay, so it's a bit cruel; but they sell fast... |
Salted Cod I like the "do not break" signs... |
Flying Fishing Boats All the better to catch air-sharks with! |
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Rickshaw Yes, it indicates the start of the Asian Food section. |
Restroom Footprints They're convenient for finding the bathrooms, and the way out. A nice touch. |
Kiwano Melons They look dangerous; as I recall, they taste okay. |
Ugli Fruit These taste better. |
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Sweet Lemons I don't think I've tried these... |
Oxalis Tubers It's good to have Dad proofread my captions. |
Langka and Halo-Halo Ice Creams Jackfruit and Fruit & Beans. Mmm-mmm! |
Japanese Food All of the appropriate aisles are labelled for convenient discovery (and picture-taking). |
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Hot Sauce Section, I The hot sauce section of Jungle Jim's is really one of its highlights. |
Hot Sauce Section, II They have literally thousands of different hot sauces. |
Hot Sauce Section, III I really wish they would label them by how how they are (number of Scoville Units). |
Adult-Oriented Hot Sauces There's even a section for hot sauces that are inappropriate for kids! |
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Adult Hot Sauces - Interior I doubt this really made my site NSFW. |
Adult Hot Sauces - Interior, II If I'd been a bit higher, maybe... maybe... |
The Expensive Hot Sauces There's also an area for the hot sauces that are more epensive than you would really pay. |
Expensive Hot Sauces, Details $899.00 for the most expensive one. |
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Gingerbread House I don't know why this is next to the hot sauce section, but it is. |
Asian Foods Well, it's actually more of the treats-section here, but you can see the point. |
German Foods German candy, here. |
Rice Section That's a lot of rice. |
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Opera Signs I don't think they really have operas performed here, but it wouldn't shock me that much if they did. |
Fish Hatchery Section Well, I don't know if they're actually hatching them here... |
Hatchery Tanks ...but yes, those are live fish. |
Water Pumps What's that insignia over on the left? |
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Chernobel Nuclear Facility Components Adding that extra-special warmth to all of the foods here! |
Fish Signs From the area next to the fish hatcheries, it's a good view of that section of the store. (Including the kitchen-gear area, where I didn't take many pictures.) |
Cookware Section I know that when I think of King Kong, I think of cookware! |
More German Food I never really thought about the different types of German food before I came to this place for the first time... |
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Sherwood Forest This indicates the British Empire foods. You know, Vegemite. |
British Food Jams and such. So the good stuff. |
Random Three-Wheeled Car I guess this represents the British food too. |
Little John The Hampsterdance Song comes to mind... |
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Indian Food, Aisle 5 5 ailes of Indian food. Yum! |
Thai Statue "Presented to Jungle Jim's with our compliments; A Taste of Thai, 1997". Classy, I didn't spot it until this trip. |
Jungle Jim on an Elephant There were realistic-looking tusks sticking out of the wall; I don't think they were real ivory, though. |
Sherwood Forest Tree Somebody pointed out to me here that there was stuff to look at inside the tree. |
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British Food, Under the Tree I suppose that I could have looked myself, like these guys did... but it was good I was tipped off. |
Interior of Sherwood Forest Tree For behold, there is stuff up there! |
Interior of Sherwood Forest Tree, II The tree even has an interior face... |
Interesting Drinks Lychee juice is pretty good; I can confirm that one. |
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South African Food I couldn't properly identify this stuff if I tried. |
Australian Food This, though, I'd have a good chance on. |
More German Food How much *is* there? |
Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Polish Food I'm sure that they could fill a section each for these, but even this place has its space limits. |
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Hispanic Food Aisle 5 Plus Brazlian and other South American. |
Olive Oil Section They have a *section* for *olive oil*. |
Pedro's Restaurante This guy used to be Italian. I think they just added the sombrero. |
Mexican Food Mercado Gigante - yes, that's a lot of Mexican Food! |
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Israeli Food Kosher food is the start of the little Ethnic Rooms. |
Greek Food These rooms are cute, small, and effective. |
Scandinavian Food They also hold a lot more stuff than it looks like they should. |
Spanish Food We've bought stuff from most of these rooms at some time or another. |
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Vinegar Section I didn't even know that there were lots of vinegars in the world before they opened this bit up. |
Expensive Vinegars I certainly didn't know that some of them were actually expensive. |
Expensive Vinegars, Details Only $149.00 for the most expensive one of these... |
Ethnic Cheeses As opposed to the huge cheese section... |
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Mid East Aisle Someday, I expect this to have its own section of the store. |
Seed Distribution Mechanism Or at least I think that's what it's for. It's a weird device. I should have investigated further. |
Dutch Food Back to the little rooms! |
Irish Food Irish food isn't generally that appealing to me... oh well. |
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French Food This probably deserves its own store area too. |
The Jungle Jim Story Theatre They constantly show a video in here explaining the history of Jungle Jim's. |
''Coming Soon'' It's a cute poster. I wish they would do a new version of the video, though. |
Jungle Pets Three-Headed Bird I'm really not sure how this thing represents pets. Do we *want* mutant pets? |
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Trapped Boston Terrier A flat Boston Terrier, yes, but still trapped. |
Bird Houses And a Bat House. I hadn't seen that before. |
Litter Box Mat I really took this picture as evidence of the current "only put the ugly flat-nose cats onto boxes with cat products" phenomenon. |
Very Proud Tim I was quite excited to have this Photography Permit, let me tell you! |
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Chocolate Section I don't like chocolate; but it's nice to get shots to show off to Beth, who couldn't be there. |
Lindt Chocolates Lindts are her favorite kind... but still, I don't think I want to buy any. |
Fruit Truffles I should really cut out taking pictures of this stuff, though. |
Diet Vanilla Coke This would be the last display of this product I would see for a long time, since it had left production the week or so before... (I used to drink a lot of it, too!) |
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Pitch Black II Hmm... this is a new product. Let's try this out... |
CranBlue Dried cranberries and blueberries? Odd. Worth a picture. |
Health Food Section This is also a fairly new section of the store, and seems to be doing okay. |
Healthy Carrots Buff carrots, and sexy carrots; both are disturbing. |
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Juices, Juices, Juices Just an odd sign. It was hard to spot ,too. |
Ask the Brain I don't think this machine has worked in years, but it still adds atmosphere. |
Frozen Food Penguins We've never bought much frozen food here. It's too difficult to get home. |
To the Check-Out The real point of this sign is that there's checkout registers on both sides. |
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Check-Out Lanes It's one of the more efficient checkout systems I've seen in my years. |
Gumballs I usually have a bag of these around my house; it seemed like a good idea to show where I get them. |
Giant Hershey's Bar Not my cup of tea, but this has always been the easiest place to find them after Christmas. |
Barber Shop I don't think that this is a real part of the store. It'd be cool if it was, though. |
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News Clippings There's been lots of articles about them over the years. I hope this makes a list. |
Comment Box "Comments... Compliments... Suggestions, or Gripes! Jungle Jim Wants To Know!!!" |
Gift Certificates If I lived in the area, I'd give these out as gifts regularly. |
Jungle Wear I actually have a few of these shirts. |
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Sports Team Sponsorship I like that there's more space for sponsorship than there is for news clippings. |
Pharmacy Another recent addition. |
Customer Service I still owe them for so kindly getting me this photograpy pass... |
Photography Permit I was sad to give it up, but I was supposed to do so... |
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Store Exit ...and here's the way out. Goodbye, store! |
Front of the Store Gym Out in front of the store, they have a nice display of weather-hardened animals showing off the jungle aspect. |
Front of the Store Gym II I'm not sure if it gives a great indication of what will be in the store, but it's still amusing. |
Front of the Store - Gorilla It really is a jungle in there. (*groan*) |
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Front of the Store Fruits Just to show off that it's not just produce, I guess. |
Holiday Sign I don't think I've been into the greenhouse that this sign points at yet. |
Greenhouse This is what the place looks like... not that this is of great importance. |
Monkey on the Greenhouse Yeoman Kong? |
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Stadium Seating I like that these things are used as benches. |
Cart Corral - Cowboy "Please CORRAL Your Carts HERE, Pardner!" |
Cart Corral - Elephant "Remeber - Corral Your Carts Here!" |
Cart Corral - Samurai "Sushi Return Cart You... Betshi!" |
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Monorail Hut This is where the monorail is eventually supposed to go to and from, when they get it hooked up. |
Jungle Jim's Truck Something to move things around, I guess. |
Back Parking Lot It looks pretty normal back here... |
New Dragon ...but then you have this guarding the back entrance to the parking lot. Oh, it's such a strance place... |
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