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Helen Georgia Betty’s Country Store

This is the most amount of time I think I have ever spent in a grocery store. Visiting this place is like a step back in time, and a selection of so many items I have never seen or heard of, bean salsa, peach salsa, hot chow chow, strawberry cider, cherry cider, Orange Crush sodas, dried fruits, a hot sauce collection to die for, along with your standard staple grocery store items such as frozen foods, deli fresh cut meats including fresh rainbow trout, and frog legs, and choice cuts of steak ready for the grill, and fresh fruits and vegetables.

Betty’s Country Store includes a huge beer and wine section that would out do most any city grocery store, and a candy section that would take any adult back in time. There is a reading section that boasts a handful of books of local interest including, but certainly not limited to southern recipe books, recipe books on how to prepare opossum, frog legs, and cow tongues. There are books on nearby hiking trails, waterfalls, mountain and Appalachian folklore, you name it. You can spend a good half hour in this section of the store alone.

There is a small section for fishing and minimal camping supplies, as well as charcoal, and live fish bait (No Crickets, you have to drive down the street to Kwik Sac for those)

I rarely ever visit Helen Georgia without going to Betty’s Country Store at least once. It’s rare I will ever go a visit without at least eating one of the fresh made deli sandwiches. You can have your sandwich made on regular flat white loaf bread, which is awesome. Each sandwich comes with a cookie, a bag of chips, and a pickle spear.

Betty’s country store also offers daily lunch specials ranging from chili dogs to an awesome huge BBQ sandwich all usually for around four bucks or so. It’s a great place to eat lunch during your stay in Helen Georgia.

There are plenty of places to sit outside at shaded picnic tables, or at the bar stools inside with the air conditioning. There are always sample available of stuff you have most likely never tried. The atmosphere is definitely old style country with tons of old farm store advertising and country memorabilia lining the walls you can view while walking on the hardwood floors.

I don’t have the exact year that the store was established, but one guy there told me they opened in the early seventies. Weather you visit this place as a gift shop, or your just stopping in to grab a can of beans, or aluminum foil, or to stack up on general groceries and supplies, one thing you do not want to miss out on when you visit is a cup of the vanilla or chocolate homemade ice cream being freshly churned right outside the front door. They have a gas powered ice cream churner churning out buckets of homemade ice cream well into the evening. Grab a bench, sit under the shade at a picnic table, challenge a friend to a game of checkers, take a load off, and take a few minutes to just enjoy being here. If your not here for at least thirty minutes, you missed the idea.

 

 

 

Betty’s Country Store
18 Yonah St
Helen Georgia 30545
(706) 878-2943

Hours of operation
Generally seven days a week from 7:00am to 9:00pm

Hours of operation may vary depending on time of year, so if your visiting
Out of season, call first.

 

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