Gratitude Week: Glorioso’s
If they built a Pick N Save on every block and the Pick lowered its prices to “everything for a penny”, I would still stop at Glorioso’s on Brady several times a year. For all the fake charm Pick can stick in its deli department, there is stuff on the shelves on the tiny aisles of Glorioso’s which I’m not sure you can find elsewhere in Wisconsin. But it’s more than just the billion types of cheeses and olives and sausages and pastas which makes me grateful there’s a Glorioso’s. It has charm.
Charm can’t be manufactured. It is transitory and tough to find in this colorless, big-box, generic world we now live in. Glorioso’s is from a time before one-stop shopping. No you don’t have 40 different varieties of diet cola or root beer, go to the liquor store for that. Yes, we have some bread, but it’s mostly from the bakery across the street. Stop there. Maybe its charm comes from making you work for your meal. It’s not given to you in a microwavable plastic covered dish. You have to hunt and gather.
But charm is also notoriously ephemeral and probably related to place. I was therefore dismayed to read this morning of Glorioso’s plans to move across the street. I hope that expansion and remodeling doesn’t ruin the charm, but I’ve been down this road before and it almost always does. For your own sake, go to Glorioso’s soon, before they move. But don’t go on Sunday, because part of their charm is that they’re not open.
