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Donuts Not Enough for Winston-Salem
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The "grassy meadow" not being a common feature of the central North Carolina geography, perhaps the shoes are a staycation product designed to help southerners imagine they're walking barefoot in some dewey, cool land instead of the local swamp/bed of pointy pine needles.
i'm kind of thinking that tobacco sandals would sell in the south.