J.'s Gourmet Health Food Deli

Two of the delis in our couple of block area are undergoing makeovers. Based on previous experience, this means they close for a while, you walk by and sometimes see work going on inside, more often see the windows papered over and the door closed, and after several weeks they reopen, perhaps under a new name, perhaps with new ownership, almost always with a brand new awning (BNA), but with exactly the same cluttered layout, the same slightly (or not so slightly) dingy interiors and the same idlers out front. In other words, why bother? Just buy and install the new awning.

So one of the two getting a current makeover is, as it proclaims itself on its BNA, J.'s Gourmet Health Food Deli. And here, as Sam and I walked the other day, in smaller print on the BNA are the first five items you can buy at the health food deli -- coffee, candy, cigarettes, soda, and lotto. Everything you need for body and financial well-being, except later in the day, in larger print, a sixth had been added -- beer.