Growing Pains
The rain-soaked, near sunless summer meant that locally grown crops have been hard to come by in recent months. Typically we offer twenty locally grown items, this year the weather cut that to eight. But there’s good news on two fronts. First, the situation forced us to prove how resilient Trucchi’s is, and allowed us [...]
Trucchis Talks Trash
Composting is on the way. Trucchis is working with a company called Frades Disposal of New Bedford, which will soon take away compostable material from each store and turn it into a liquefied state that will eventually become fertilizer for golf courses. The machines that do this are called digesters, and Frades has several of [...]
“happy as a clam”
Every wonder about the origin of the saying “happy as a clam”? It’s from an 1840 poem by John G. Saxe, who wrote “Sonnet to a Clam,” which included the now-famous line. The fact that Saxe put the phrase in quotes tells us that he’d probably picked it up elsewhere. In fact, the actual saying [...]
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