A friend who recently left his longtime home of Austin for Santa Fe lamented the biggest downside of life in New Mexico: “I learned pretty quickly that other supermarkets aren’t like H-E-B.”Add it to the list of the indignities of the retired life: spoiled by years of chowing down on Hill Country Fare Cut Green Beans and Pork Riblets with Bar-B-Q Seasoning, you head out of state and are reduced to browsing the aisles of Albertsons and Sprouts, wondering where it all went wrong. O, Piggly Wiggly, where is thy Stinging Nettle Leaf Blend Extract?Texans often cleave to an irrational fondness for our homegrown institutions, some of which are difficult to defend. But few of us feel any qualms about our loyalty to H-E-B. After…The post No Store Has Grown More Than H-E-B appeared first on Texas Monthly.