Woot! How do y’all feel about our first ever Humboldt Approved tie? Answer: you love it!

When the dust settled in this week’s highly competitive poll, Hydesville’s Murrish Market stood head and shoulders above the rest of the not-quite-“super” competition, taking home honors in our rural region division. But in a Humboldt Approved first, our metro region honors will forevermore be shared by Eureka’s Myrtle Avenue Market and Harris & K Market!

Yay for winning things!

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Original Post: Another Friday, another chance to honor a specific sliver of our Humboldt experience. This week, Humboldt Approved aims to honor your candy bar supplier, your last-minute milk savior, your bestower of lottery tickets. Though they may not be “super,” we want to know, HumCo, what is your most trusted neighborhood market.  

To be clear, Safeway, Ray’s Food Place, Murphy’s, etc … these are not the class we’re looking for here. Think more along the lines of that store in Tremors that they have to crawl on the roof of to escape the underground slug monsters. You know, and the clerk gets eaten? We added a pic. That size o’ place.

We’re employing our two winner system again this week, which seems even more appropriate than usual. You’d agree that the small stores that supply Humboldt’s farther removed regions serve almost an entirely different function than your more urban corner store. As always, here’s your full voting rundown:

To vote, look through the comments of this Humboldt Approved poll. If someone has already nominated the answer you would give for that week’s category, click the upvote arrow. If you don’t see your desired Humboldt Approved answer nominate it in a comment for others to upvote. (Please be careful to not duplicate answers; redundant answers will be deleted and potential associated upvotes will be lost.) Feel free to make your case by replying to/cheering on the answer you love most, but again the number by the arrows is what counts.

Of course, you can vote for as many nominees as you deem worthy, but of course the more you do that the more watered down your initial vote becomes. That’s math.

We reserve the right to delete superfluous comments that make the voting/comment section hard to sift through. Please try not to get offended when your comment battle reply is deleted. We’re trying to do something here.

We are looking for two winners — one winner from the metropolises of Eureka and Arcata, and one from Humboldt’s smaller communities. Voting closes next Friday at noon and soon after a winner will be declared. (Tip: Sort comments by “BEST” to get a better grasp of how voting is trending.)

You know the drill! Crown your champion(s)!