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MEMernet: Dammit Gannet, Kroger’s Dill?, Las Toxicas?

The Memphis Bobcats, pickle-mania, and questions about a bar.

Memphis on the internet.

Dammit Gannet

Most by now expect small errors in The Commercial Appeal, knowing how much of it is produced out of Memphis. But when the paper got the University of Memphis sports mascot wrong in a headline … there were strong feelings.  

Kroger’s Dill?

Posted to Facebook by Kroger

Kroger made a big dill about National Pickle Day last week, enough so that some worried their social media had been hacked. 

Las Toxicas?

Posted to Google by Hector Gomez

For the second time this year, Memphis Reddit users wondered just what in the heck happens inside the Las Toxicas … bar? club? restaurant? … on Summer at I-240.

Some of the answers included a “Hooteras” (a “Mexican-style Hooters place,” according to u/LadPro), a dance hall, strip club, bar, and a “thinly veiled brothel,” said u/alex32593. 

A Google video (above) from March apparently shows the Las Toxicas dance floor in full swing. In it, patrons two-step respectfully to ranchera.