The signs -- both the hand-lettered hardware store variety, with a phone number scrawled in grease pencil, and metal agency placards -- are everywhere: along Main Street in Amagansett, on Lumber Lane in Bridgehampton, on Hill Street in Southampton.
The fish is a betta (or 'Siamese fighting') fish, the decorative, brightly colored popular pet store variety that actually originates from the Mekong basin and calls standing waters including rice paddies their home.
The cauliflowers grown by local farmers are not the oversized, Popeye-like grocery store variety.
The grocery store variety are available year-round, but for egg enthusiasts, summer may be peak season for omelets and frittatas.
My son has been eyeballing the green-frosted grocery store variety and though I don't mind allowing him chemically enhanced treats from time-to-time, I prefer to make a less processed version to enjoy at home.
Starbucks initially made its name brewing pitch-black roasted coffees that were richer-tasting and more caffeinated than the insipid grocery-store varieties to which most Americans had become accustomed.
This means leaving the better storing varieties in a warm place for 3-5 daysoso that the skins will harden up further, protecting them from fungus and bacteria.
Many of the stores were boutique size, yet carried department-store variety -- a handful of formals here, slacks and blouses there, suits in the corner.
**Cupcakes will usually be of the cheap, grocery-store variety with the white frosting and pastel circular sprinkles that taste like plastic.
Hardware stores, variety stores and gift shops could benefit, he added, as stores like Dollar General move into food and beverages, and bigger retailers have fewer unique gifts and more private-label goods.
