Yes Growster, the ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission) stores are still around in many states. The ABC stores in Alabama are run by that state, for example. We don't have an ABC that operates stores, but you will see ABC in the name of many privately-owned liquor stores.
This brings me to the term "package store". It's basically the same as a red dot store, sells alcohol packaged in containers (bottles, cans, cases) meant to be consumed off site.
I might as well finish off my list:
Gem clip: a paper clip, the wire type, formed in an oval. The name comes from the Gem Company, the most popular brand of paper clip in the South.
Buggy: a shopping cart, the kind common in supermarkets.
Mush: a congealed, cooked corn meal product, sold in loaf form. The closest thing to it is pre-made polenta. It is usually sliced and fried as a breakfast food. When I was a child, we ate ours with maple syrup.
Mango: to the rest of the world, this is a tropical fruit. In Indiana, it is a sweet bell pepper. The folklore around the Indiana name blames the British! At one time, tropical fruit was hard to come by in northern countries, due to the length of time it took to ship mangoes and other fruit from he tropics. At the time, mango chutney was popular, but fresh mangoes were hard to come by. Entrepreneurs came up with a solution: through processing and flavoring, make some other fruit 'pass' for being a mango! According to lore, somehow they settled on sweet bell peppers, and that became the 'mango' chutney. Hoosiers (the name for people from Indiana, nobody knows why) recognized that the chutney actually contained peppers, and assumed bell peppers and mangoes were the same thing. As a child, I recall that all of the adults around me called them mangoes, same thing in the supermarkets!
