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Need a black bear leg to roast? How about an African lion shoulder? Whole rattlesnake, yak meat, turtle, gator, alpaca etc. etc. You'll find it at Jungle Jim's. Need fresh trout, salmon, catfish, or walleye? You can buy a live one. One acre of produce. And that's not counting the international produce section. Lots of fruits and vegetables I'd never even heard of. More than eighty varieties of olive oil. And other oils I've never even heard of. Forty kinds of rice. Free samples galore. I got full once on a particularly good (for the free samples) Saturday. HUGE beer and wine selection.

The store is 200,000 sq. feet. That's almost FOUR football fields. They give you a map when you walk in. It's as if you were at a zoo or amusement park. For five bucks, they have a guided tour. You will spend most of the day there if you don't limit your browsing. It is probably the most amazing store I've ever been in.

Take a look:www.junglejims.com/

Be sure to look at the map!

Sounds pretty cool, looks kinda fun... ...except that I kinda hate shopping, esp at places where I feel overwhelmed by selection and advertising, so I'd probably get tired-out really fast.

My sis or I once won a gift certificate to some restaurant that serves exotic meats, so I had gator, I think. The exotic meats... that's gotta bring people in for curiosity.

The entrance of the place looks really snazzy. Some of their displays look really snazzy. (i.e. the Robin Hood one.) They've got a pet shop inside there?

There is a pet store in Jungle Jim's. It's a Petland or Petco or something. There's also a pet section in the store that sells a lot of diffrent pet foods and stuff.

I looked at some of the yelp reviews. Hilarious:

Chuck E. Cheese for grownups.

Is it an amusement park, or a grocery store, or just the stuff my wet dreams are made of?

Yes. Those things.

I came to Cincinnati with a friend a few weeks ago, and she insisted on taking me here. "Why are we going to a grocery store?" I wondered. Foolish me. This is no grocery store. This is where I want to go when I die.

Imagine that Trader Joe's and Whole Foods got together and decided to have a baby. Now imagine that after conceiving, the couple, who by the way work at a top-secret military research laboratory, were exposed to massive doses of gamma radiation in a freak accident. Now imagine that their baby, its DNA irreversibly altered by the gamma rays in ways that modern science cannot begin to comprehend, acquires unfathomable super powers, allowing it to morph into a creature many times the size and prowess of both its parents combined.

They named that baby Jungle Jim.

*shrug* It doesn't have pinollio...

I had to look that one up. I wonder how many restaurants in the US serve that? Maybe 90% of the Nicaraguan restuarants?

Harbinger wrote:I had to look that one up. I wonder how many restaurants in the US serve that? Maybe 90% of the Nicaraguan restuarants?

All of them It'd hardly be a Nicaraguan restaurant without it!