D and K Surplus Grocery
757 Delta Rd.
Red Lion, PA 17356
717-244-9398
Hours:
Mon. - Wed. 8 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Thurs. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday Closed
Accepts: Cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Debit and personal checks drawn on PA & MD banks w/ a valid driver's license and matching addresses. They'll bag your groceries or find some empty boxes if you'd rather.
What $15 Looks Like at D & K
What $15 Looks Like at D & KThis Place Is Only a Little Tricky To Find
From Mooville find I-83 S to exit 18; go L on PA 124/Mt. Rose Ave. E; Go R on SR-24/ Cape Horn Rd. - there's a Tom's gas station on the corner and you'll go another 5 miles after the turn to the next turn so don't get nervous; once you are into Red Lion proper go L on SR-74/Broadway E. and you'll see the sign before you see the turn onto Delta Rd on the left.
The cross road before the turn is Camp St. If you get to Windsor Rd., you've gone too far.
What's In There
Gawd a-Mighty, all kindsa stuff. Your regular off-label canned goods but lots of name brands, too. A lot of these are not brands you've ever heard of but I'm sure they're popular in Australia (frozen fruit pop things @ $1.19 a carton), Israel (ALL kinds of things from spices to chocolate bars REALLY cheap) and Spain (HUGE cans of black olives and, NO LIE, a FIVE POUND bag of Gummy Bears... the sour kind I love SO... $4.99!)
Lots of Italian tomato sauce and pesto... like, 6 oz. of Scarpetta pesto for 50 cents a jar. Indian chana masala which you have GOT to have if you're going to make Indian chick peas in sauce and you can't get that stuff anywhere... I've looked. Here it is in a 100 gm. container at 2 / $1.00!
This Israeli spice shaker came in 4 different shades including leafy salad and Mediterranean salad mix for 79 cents for a 1.75 oz. packed in the coolest pyramid... seventy-nine cents!Baktat sun-dried tomatoes in oil... 11 oz. for 79 cents and all the way from Turkey... Raphy's white eggplant salad which I have no idea what it is but it was 99 cents for a 23 oz. jar and it looked kinda like baba ganoush. It says on the label "If you like Paris, you'll love Raphy's Food"... also from Turkey so I'm not going to be able to pass judgment until I open this baby up and get a spoonful of it...
Oh, please. There's plenty of Ah-mur-iken stuff in here too... Kraft dressing for 99 cents a 24 oz. bottle, Organic Valley quarts of half and half in aseptic packaging that will last until the cows come home at 2 / $1.00 and Knorr's bouillon cubes in vegetable, beef and chicken at 5 / $1.00
A nice bunch of candles and some 10.5 oz Lemonade scented soy ones in glass jars for 99 cents.
I picked up some Buffalo Guys buffalo jerky for Shadow the Wonder Dog since he waited for me to come home on his Columbus Day off... 2.2 oz. of pretty nice looking jerky for 79 cents. It's people jerky but they had some regular store brand dog and cat food and treats, too.
Lots of things to drink... including something that billed itself as Pomegranate 7-Up at $1.29 a 2 liter bottle. Cool sodas I've never heard of in really excellent flavors... Costa Rican Pineapple and Raspberry Lemonade... Lots of mixers and I was forced to pick up some Freshies Bloody Mary mix and Stirrings Watermelon Martini and Lemon Drop sour mixes all at $1.59 a quart just because I'm pretty sure I'm going to need a drink if I can get through the week at my nutball office with only 4 days to fix 5 days worth of going wrong...
There were A LOT of cookies and crackers... Keebler and Cheez-Its... some of the boxes were mashed up pretty well and still weren't priced much better than you would see at a regular grocery but some of them were priced really cheap and LOTS of pretzel type things which one comes to expect in a Mooville grocery... even in the weirdness that is a surplus grocery store... so...
Here's what I want to know...
who is eating all these sliced bamboo shoots and half gallon containers of pitted black Israeli olives and Turkish sun-dried tomatoes and Indian masala mixes? I found 5 or 6 cases of Naan mix. Boxed flour mixes to make the delicious tandoori oven-baked Indian breads that will send you straight to Nirvana when they come to your table at a good Indian restaurant. I looked at the boxes. I picked them up and read the directions. I'm not going to make yeast breads I don't care how delicious the exotic outcome will be. I know it. You know it. We all know it.
Next time I want some Naan, I'm going down to Passage to India and they'll sell me some and it will be off-scale excellent and I won't have to lift a finger except to get it from the plate to my mouth...
And I'm a food snob. If anyone is going to buy a box of Naan mix, it's me. The standard Mooville cuisine of fat, flour and salt is not my general cuppa. I don't eat meat so you know I'm going nuts in this place. I wriggle with joy when I see shelves with this stuff on them but I saw who was shopping these aisles with me... "god bless 'em," Joe Biden's grandma would say, "they're the salt of the earth but they wouldn't know basmati rice if it bit them on the ass"...
Sorry. Its true, though... or maybe it's not and these Central Nowhere denizens have me fooled.
I don't care. I found Weil Genmaicha loose tea in an 80 gm package for 2 / $1.00 and a 15 oz. can of Tiger Tiger Green Curry sauce for 50 cents a piece.
I love Mooville.
