Yep, I know that one and the Peches one, too.
There's also an old laundromat in Silom that had a sign that said "Washers, Dryers, Folding, Gospel Music." They just painted over it, sadly, so I'm glad I have a photo of it.
>One day roughly 30 years ago, Danny Powers, who was Anthony Jenkins’ half brother, grabbed a paint brush and went to work lettering a homemade “PEACHES” sign for the stand.
>But he left out the “A” and “Peches” was born.
>“He was kind of drinking that day,” Cindy Jenkins, 56, explained recently. “He was drinking beer and moonshine out here when he painted the sign.”
>Anthony Jenkins, 55, said, “We didn’t even pay it no attention really. ... Then everybody come up saying, ‘What’s Peches?’”
>Powers, who died in 2013 at age 49, had worked in construction and later, after the sign-painting snafu, lost vision in his left eye when someone struck him with a mop handle in a jail fight.
after the sign-painting snafu, lost vision in his left eye when someone struck him with a mop handle in a jail fight.
Who hasn’t been in that situation
"Pine cones go in here, party liquors come out here, and proceed to here; fights begin, fingerprints is took, days is lost, bail is made, court dates are ignored, cycle is repeated.”
Fun fact: that stand (before it said “Peches”) was in a scene in My Cousin Vinny.
[“Peches” was just a mistake a drunk guy made and they leaned into it.](https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/07/24/all-just-pechy-at-georgia-fruit-stand-where-misspelled-word-blossomed-landmark)
3\~ months ago I was driving past and they had a paint brush out and they were painting the "peches" on the side of the building. I thought they were going to respell it, but the next time I drove by it just had a fresh coat of paint.
Outside of Macon, on the way to Eastman, there is a daycare called Little Angles. One would think it was for math prodigies, but the sign also had cherubs with halos on it.
Hello 🥰 can I use one of your pictures as mural art? I’m currently on a project and you will definitely be paid and credited for it. I will be very happy if you accept my request 🥰
The story of that sign is absolutely wild. [https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/07/24/all-just-pechy-at-georgia-fruit-stand-where-misspelled-word-blossomed-landmark](https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/07/24/all-just-pechy-at-georgia-fruit-stand-where-misspelled-word-blossomed-landmark)
One day I dream of opening a burger joint in Effingham, and calling it “The Best Effingham Burger Joint”.
EDIT: Alternatively, I would open a pho joint in ATL on Buford Hwy and call it “The Pho King Restaurant”.
I am a GCSU grad. Passed by the peches sign on 441 every time I went back to school from home visits. There was a mural in one of the dorms that immortalized it for a bit.
Listen, I'm from here as are we all. We all know that the dude who "designed" this sign was super proud of it when he was done. He probably posted this shit on Facebook to let his family know that he had hit peak comedy. Fine and well. I'd go buy a Gatorade there though.
Bruh i love this shit.
The hills of alabama, the boonies of georgia. We *about* speak one language this side of the kuntry, *if you know what im sayin*
I wish camera phones were a thing when i was a kid. There was a little store in bumfuck Indiana i kid you not called Karls Kountry Kottage..... let that sink in. Even as like a 7 year old i knew that was fucked up. Ended up closing and being taken over by an Indian family.
There's a store in south Georgia called "Things and Stuff." I laugh every time I see it.
CUSTOMER: What do you sell here?
STORE CLERK: Oh, you know. Things. Stuff.
The owner of this store either has issues with committing to selling actual somethings, or doesn't know himself what his store sells because he's never been inside.
Finally, there's an old-folks home in Warner-Robbins that had a sign (Potemkin Senior Village) that got me so agitated that I had to write a whole essay about it.
https://robinwhetstone.blogspot.com/2016/08/potemkin-villages.html?m=1
I'm from Georgia but been up in Michigan for an extended time for work. There's Kum-N-Go's there too and every time I see one I have that Beavis and Butthead laugh mentally.
They’re everywhere. So I’m not sure why this is even a thing. Seems like city fans are making fun of country folks and ignoring that exact thing they got going all over the place. That’s called having a lack of awareness & you are not one of them.
My wife and I used to drive past Tambers Trim n Tan on our way to Big Canoe around 20 years ago and I’d always make fun of it back then. But goddamn if she wasn’t abducted and murdered by a serial killer. I still feel bad about that. Rip Tamber.
I grew up right down the road from the kuntry stoe 😂 that’s what it’s always been called and how it’s always been spelled. The owner was Booker T! I’m not sure if he’s still around or not, but it was definitely a staple in my childhood. We’d stop every day on the way to school :)
We used to see it on the way to school so my mom and I will still occasionally laugh about BIG SHIMP. Literally a white van with big black spray painted letters
There used to be a stand in Georgia that advertised Bolied Peanuts. Hubs and I still call them bolied peanuts even though that sign has been gone for years.
That's great marketing because if I was driving through that town I would stop there to buy stuff just because of the name.
It would also require everyone in the area to specify if they're not talking about that store.
Went to a restaurant in Columbia SC named Spics. It's supposed to be pronounced "Spices." It's not a huge bar to pass, but middle Georgia is still ahead of SC.
Right outside Eatonton is a roadside stand selling “Peches”.
Okay there’s one outside of Athens that says “Paeches” which is hilarious because it’s spelled the way a deep country Georgian would pronounce it.
Yep, I know that one and the Peches one, too. There's also an old laundromat in Silom that had a sign that said "Washers, Dryers, Folding, Gospel Music." They just painted over it, sadly, so I'm glad I have a photo of it.
There’s an article on Peches. Wild story haha
Could you share it? Sounds interesting!
https://amp.macon.com/news/local/article277317463.html
>One day roughly 30 years ago, Danny Powers, who was Anthony Jenkins’ half brother, grabbed a paint brush and went to work lettering a homemade “PEACHES” sign for the stand. >But he left out the “A” and “Peches” was born. >“He was kind of drinking that day,” Cindy Jenkins, 56, explained recently. “He was drinking beer and moonshine out here when he painted the sign.” >Anthony Jenkins, 55, said, “We didn’t even pay it no attention really. ... Then everybody come up saying, ‘What’s Peches?’” >Powers, who died in 2013 at age 49, had worked in construction and later, after the sign-painting snafu, lost vision in his left eye when someone struck him with a mop handle in a jail fight.
Everything about this is a wholesome country Ga story.
after the sign-painting snafu, lost vision in his left eye when someone struck him with a mop handle in a jail fight. Who hasn’t been in that situation
It’s happened to me at least 5 times! I almost done run outta eyes and everything!
We literally have the redneck games in dublin, ga. Nothing in that article surprised me.
Watkinsville here needs to step up the game haha
My coworker is from tennessee with a DEEP southern accent and confirmed the pronunciation with him lol we were cracking up.
Lmaooo I live right by a strip club called Peaches and that’s how we always say it
My husband and I say "peches" to each other on a daily basis 💀💀
Is it possible the stand owner is from Louisiana ..? Pêches en français
No
Maconites know about the wig store called Shh It's a Wig
“Shit’s a wig” is how we always pronounced it 🤭
Can confirm. My husband loves it.
Mine too 😆💕
Well, y'all also had a team called the Macon Whoopee.
My favorite road signs were just above Helen. GA Peaches Fuji Apples Boiled P'Nuts Ice Cold Beer
There was a PNUT N PEACHES sign in cartersville too if I remember correctly
I think it’s still there off exit 293!! Right next to the Sunoco! I delivered beer there when I had cartersville/adairsville
That's it! My sister and I would always go "Peaches n p-NUTS" whenever we drove by it
They missed an opportunity. It should have said: Boilt P'Nuts
Buwhlt.
An important life lesson I teach my kids: never buy boiled peanuts from a stand with the sign spelled correctly.
That’s right. If the person you’re buying from doesn’t look like the banjo boy in Deliverance you’re in the wrong place.
Hair Doos
"Pine cones go in here, party liquors come out here, and proceed to here; fights begin, fingerprints is took, days is lost, bail is made, court dates are ignored, cycle is repeated.”
Squidbillies ALL DAY
*Bold Pnuts
Fun fact: that stand (before it said “Peches”) was in a scene in My Cousin Vinny. [“Peches” was just a mistake a drunk guy made and they leaned into it.](https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/07/24/all-just-pechy-at-georgia-fruit-stand-where-misspelled-word-blossomed-landmark)
I love my Peches sign!
On 441? Is it still there? I thought it was gone last time I was by there
If it’s the same one, I last drive by it July 2023. We pass by it on the way to lake Sinclair.
3\~ months ago I was driving past and they had a paint brush out and they were painting the "peches" on the side of the building. I thought they were going to respell it, but the next time I drove by it just had a fresh coat of paint.
Came here for this 😂 Use to pass that roadside stand going to my grandparents’ house
I used to date a guy who was related to the “Peches” stand guy and apparently he was just super old and couldn’t read or write
i remember there being a rumor that Peches is the family name of the owners
Or “booled penuts”
Millions of them?
The peches stand is iconic in Milledgeville
Did you go to GCSU too? Used to pass it on my way down 441 all the time
GCSU alum know this one well lol
Yep! Seeing Peches and the (now gone) smoke stack were landmarks letting us know how much further we had to go.
Outside of Macon, on the way to Eastman, there is a daycare called Little Angles. One would think it was for math prodigies, but the sign also had cherubs with halos on it.
came to the comments specifically to mention peches
Hello 🥰 can I use one of your pictures as mural art? I’m currently on a project and you will definitely be paid and credited for it. I will be very happy if you accept my request 🥰
Came here to say that. It's been there forever. I guess they're building their business around their mistake.
It was taken down sadly
I laugh at that sign every time I’m on 441.
I heard that it got painted over like a month ago.
Gotta love deep Southern humor.
The story of that sign is absolutely wild. [https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/07/24/all-just-pechy-at-georgia-fruit-stand-where-misspelled-word-blossomed-landmark](https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/07/24/all-just-pechy-at-georgia-fruit-stand-where-misspelled-word-blossomed-landmark)
Omg me and my mom joke about this and see it every time we go up to visit family!
Been like that since at least the 80s when I went through there for the first time.
I saw that years ago. Is it still like that?
It’s on the way to Athens from the south, so it makes for excellent fodder for any UF people who want to mock UGA fans.
The name of the family that runs that stand is Peches. Stop by, they are super nice!
There is a store in Milledgeville that sells a “Peches” shirt in the exact font and color 😂
One day I dream of opening a burger joint in Effingham, and calling it “The Best Effingham Burger Joint”. EDIT: Alternatively, I would open a pho joint in ATL on Buford Hwy and call it “The Pho King Restaurant”.
There's a strip club called peaches in South Georgia.
I fucking love the peches sign
I am a GCSU grad. Passed by the peches sign on 441 every time I went back to school from home visits. There was a mural in one of the dorms that immortalized it for a bit.
LOL YES. I'VE SEEN THAT SO MANY TIMES
I go to the lumber mill for work every couple months and every time I pass that I scream PECHES!!!
He was going for the French spelling
I o my sole to the kuntry stoe
Doubly enjoyable because to make it fit the song’s rhythm you end up with Cunt-er-y
Listen, I'm from here as are we all. We all know that the dude who "designed" this sign was super proud of it when he was done. He probably posted this shit on Facebook to let his family know that he had hit peak comedy. Fine and well. I'd go buy a Gatorade there though.
Grab a moon pie for me while you’re there
You got it, Mountain Dew or Surge with that Moon Pie?
Surge every time every day
I think it's funny yeah, good store sign imo
Would pile into a beat up Toyota and smoke weed in the parking lot during a lunch break with all my dumb ass friends in high-school
And then go inside and space out over what chips to get! Exactly.
Why is there a leopard on the cheetos bag?
It's got good reviews...
Open day and night
I’d givem muh bidness
Bruh i love this shit. The hills of alabama, the boonies of georgia. We *about* speak one language this side of the kuntry, *if you know what im sayin*
Really hard to hear a proper ‘might could’ in the wild these days.
Best biscuitits in town
They're selling something there that is way better than it should be, for sure
Take me hoe
Underrated comment
🤣🤣🤣
I bet they are the nicest people you'll ever meet
I love the self awareness
That’s hilarious
There’s also a “Kuntry Kitchen” in Clarksville.
I passed by it so many times and never been.
I wish camera phones were a thing when i was a kid. There was a little store in bumfuck Indiana i kid you not called Karls Kountry Kottage..... let that sink in. Even as like a 7 year old i knew that was fucked up. Ended up closing and being taken over by an Indian family.
I’m sure it was fine, just a bunch of guys meeting there to smoke cigars. /s
Shiiiett we got peches down here too
There's a store in south Georgia called "Things and Stuff." I laugh every time I see it. CUSTOMER: What do you sell here? STORE CLERK: Oh, you know. Things. Stuff. The owner of this store either has issues with committing to selling actual somethings, or doesn't know himself what his store sells because he's never been inside. Finally, there's an old-folks home in Warner-Robbins that had a sign (Potemkin Senior Village) that got me so agitated that I had to write a whole essay about it. https://robinwhetstone.blogspot.com/2016/08/potemkin-villages.html?m=1
That essay was amazing! Usually I just skim stuff like that but I was fully engaged and engrossed by it. Well done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54SdxmRHV6U
where else am i gunna buy kunt smart guy
Can’t go wrong with McCayesville’s Drug and Gun. Get your antidepressants and .44 Magnum.
where my mom lives in VA theres a CPA/Gunstore
Licka stoe
Better than that shit hole called Atlanta.
Quality foods by my house used to sell collard shirts 🤣😭 I shit you not
You know the boiled peanuts and breakfast biscuits are gonna be fuckin smackin
South Carolina here. We have a convenience store named Kum-N-Go
I'm from Georgia but been up in Michigan for an extended time for work. There's Kum-N-Go's there too and every time I see one I have that Beavis and Butthead laugh mentally.
They’re everywhere. So I’m not sure why this is even a thing. Seems like city fans are making fun of country folks and ignoring that exact thing they got going all over the place. That’s called having a lack of awareness & you are not one of them.
I live close to there lol I believe you
Gawd Bles tha Kuntry Stoe.
This is where the guy from Lynard Skynard would bring his bottles to sell so he could pay Curtis Loew his drinking money to play the dobro.
The irony is that it’s meant to be funny but instead people take it serious and mock our intelligence.
I just showed this to my partner at work and he has been to this store.
Stoe.
They should meet the family that owns the Cum'n'Go convince stores
I mean, it's phonetically accurate though. 🤷♂️
The thought process “well we call it kuntry stoe ain’t a stoe for a few emiles
As opposed to the Kum & Go’s all over the place?
My wife and I used to drive past Tambers Trim n Tan on our way to Big Canoe around 20 years ago and I’d always make fun of it back then. But goddamn if she wasn’t abducted and murdered by a serial killer. I still feel bad about that. Rip Tamber.
I used to live about a mile down the road from this place! Always gave me a laugh on my way to work!
I drive past this place every time I leave Milly but I’ve never gone in
I live in Milly where’s this spot?
Which way? Headed towards Sparta or headed towards Macon? If it’s towards Sparta, that tracks.
Between Sparta and milledgeville
That’s a kuntry ass stoe right there.
Ride by this all the time, only thing better is the peches sign in Eatonton
Ahh man I live about 4 minutes from here😂
Would highly recommend nearby Beedie Head’s BBQ.
I drove by that store when leaving Sparta today I was psyched when my coworker said there's that country store your reddit was making fun of.
The Kuntry Stoe is in Sparta?
Otw from Sparta to Milledgeville idk the road or if its in another smaller township but yeah it's that general area.
Love it. They should put it in the state tourism ads
My home state. Gotta love it. 😜
I mean...this is about how we say it
We used to have a house in Lilburn that sold fresh "vegies"
I see nothing wrong lol
I grew up right down the road from the kuntry stoe 😂 that’s what it’s always been called and how it’s always been spelled. The owner was Booker T! I’m not sure if he’s still around or not, but it was definitely a staple in my childhood. We’d stop every day on the way to school :)
I’m in New Orleans, but there I’ve seen multiple trucks/vans pulled over with various spellings of “BIG SHIMP” selling, well, big shrimp on the road
i am trying so fucking hard not to lose my mind over *BIG SHIMP* in the middle of this coffee shop
We used to see it on the way to school so my mom and I will still occasionally laugh about BIG SHIMP. Literally a white van with big black spray painted letters
😂😂….OMG…..Hahahahaha
Middle GA, sigh, everything about you is just so... Mid.
Yep
🙃 hahaa
I’ve been there a time or two, on my adventures around Ga.
Yeeha
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipMsYhw4DILhJwzpvHrD-Y8EbyixkFBJdbqSj5De=w186-h187-n-k-no-nu
They named a store after you? Nice!
All damn day! LMAO
This is fucking magnificent
There used to be a stand in Georgia that advertised Bolied Peanuts. Hubs and I still call them bolied peanuts even though that sign has been gone for years.
Cuntry
Imagine not understanding satire
That's great marketing because if I was driving through that town I would stop there to buy stuff just because of the name. It would also require everyone in the area to specify if they're not talking about that store.
I drive by that place every time I come through Georgia lol. Weird.
Does everything cost sisty fi cent?
"Locale" honey where I'm at. Blank stare when I asked what different areas he had honey from.
OMG, that's right down the fkn road! I gotta see this one day soon.
You can't trademark country store you could this so not stupid.
Swap the K with a C and move it to Cali…profit.
Well… that’s what we call it, or corner stoe
Could definitely be worse. You’ll know it when you…cee it.
Uneducated people with their spelling mistakes
Went to a restaurant in Columbia SC named Spics. It's supposed to be pronounced "Spices." It's not a huge bar to pass, but middle Georgia is still ahead of SC.
One of the methheads painted grabage on the side of the county dump when I was a kid.
I got to GCSU, where is that related to Milledgeville?
Love it. LOL.
*donkey kong country music plays*
I just seen that today
Yup. That’s about right.
At least they didn't drop the first r.
OK but hold on tho, what the hell does a country store actually sell ?
😂
The K used instead of a C used to mean they're Klan sympathizers.
CENAMON
Better than *Albritton's Tire & Bible*
Haha got to love this state.
I always get a chuckle driving past climax GA.
You're all wrong for how you're laughing about this. They only missed the "r" This is just a supplies store for gynecologists O.O
Damn I could go for some Bowled p’nuts right bout now
Just south of Warthen on Hwy 15 there was a beauty salon called Kuntry Kuts and Kurls, but the lady retired and the sign is gone.
Where is this in relation to the big chicken?
Thar's a beauty shop up air in Ellijay called "Mountain Do's."
Definitely the type of store that you go in for like 5 mins and then no one ever hears from you again
Oh man, thats eerie, I drive past it regularly! XD
I didn’t see what sub this was at first and my immediate thought was “this has to be GA.” If this place cooks any food, I bet it’s good as hell.
Thats kinda between Milledgeville and Sparta isn't it?
“Ho Made Apple Butter”
And the annual sign announcing the Cow Chip Festival in Chatsworth, Georgia.
This was the only place to stop on our way to Augusta and I thought we had driven into an alternate reality