Ah, the jungle...

Ah, Jungle Jim's - finest grocery store in at least a three-state area. Since my wife and I moved outside the I-275 loop, Jim's has become our grocery of choice, necessitating a visit pretty much every week - sometimes multiple times a week if we're entertaining.

They've got the best produce section anywhere around, including imported produce that people drive hours to get - from durians to ugli fruit, from nine varieties of cabbage to four varieties of peaches - a full acre of produce. It's phenomenal.

Then there's the import groceries with aisles of food from England, Switzerland, Spain, India, Brazil, Mexico, and a dozen other nations. Everything you could want from any nation you could visit.

They've got a great bakery, a fabulous butcher, an in house sushi chef, a cooking school, the most impressive selection of adult beverages, and the best seafood selection around. Incredible.

And Jim is expanding. He's building more and more onto the stores, adding restaurants, a bank, an ice cream store, an oxygen bar, an entertainment district, and a monorail to take everyone around. Plus he's headed into Oakley for a second store.

Jim's had a Smithsonian article written about him; has become a roadside attraction, and become a destination for tourists.

The Jungle is a store that every Cincinnatian should be visiting. It's incredible...amazing...phenomenal...