First off, do not go to the address listed for these reviews. I am guessing that folks just started posting here, and never stopped. The correct location is actually at the 1700 block. This place , the 1500 block, is where the wholesale market for restaurants and grocery stores is. Pretty obvious, unless you are not from the area, in which case you will be wondering \"Where the $%$# is Wholey's ?\" if you go to 1501 Penn Ave.\n\nBought the jumbo crab legs here yesterday. At 25 bucks a pound for the jumbos, definitely not cheap, but celebrating a new job and at the same time starting a two week Cisco class.\n\nAnyways... I love crab. I remember first buying the snow crab in 1985, when you could buy large snow crab legs that rivalled the size of todays king crab legs for $2.79 a pound. Kind of like you used to be able to get skirt steak for a buck a pound before people discovered how delicious skirt steak is.\n\nThe regular king crab was $18.00 per lb. The jumbo are $25.00 per lb. I said what the heck, and got three pounds of the jumbos. Which came out to six legs. \n\nFirst big plus, they are very \"clean\". Don't have big chunks of ice crusted on them, which forces you to pay $25.00 a pound for water.\n\nSecond, at that price, I have zero problem having the person at the counter dig down in the display to get exactly what I want. And while other folks may have had bad experiences, I have never had a surly counter person, they never have any problem getting what I want. But like I said, for the price these things cost, they better not have a problem with digging out the ones I want.\n\nAnd last, they were very good looking. No \"odd' coloration or look. \n\nWhen I got these things home, I only steamed two of them. Which was a very healthy sized meal. And they were the sweetest and best tasting I had ever had. Just ate them with butter.\n\nToday, I am just going to thaw and heat one of them, then chop up the meat and have it over iceberg lettuce with FRESH MADE Ranch dressing. I love getting Hidden valley Ranch, mixing it with just a pint of sour cream, and dressing iceberg and king crab meat with it. One of my favorite, and most likelt easiest, meals.\n\nAnd!!! Wholey's is a full serve grocery store. They have a full meat department, veggies, not as big as a Giant Eagle or a Wal-Mart, but definitely better than either place. \n\nSo DON'T think of Wholey's as just a place for seafood. You can get your whole party stocked from here.\n\nNow, the bad things. They only have five (5!?!?!) cash registers. Also, they sell sushi, but it is so popular, unless you want to stand there for half an hour, don't get the sushi unless you happen to walk in, and no one is standing in line. In which case, get the sushi. It is pretty good, suprsingly so.
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