Monarch
Monarch was also the brand name of a Greenville area food service distributer's products. They serviced institutions, schools, restaurants, etc. . The company was Pierce-Young-Angel Monarch. (PYA Monarch). The company was sold out to Sysco and I don't know what happened after that. A former supervisor's partner retired as a truck driver for PYA Monarch of Greenville. Back in another lifetime when I briefly worked in the food service store room at Greenville Memorial Hospital, the PYA truck came every Tuesday. They carried everything from canned foods to cleaners. Their products were listed as "Blue Label" - premium line, "Red Label" - next best, and so forth. I hated having to unload then stack up all that stuff. I was always fascinated, though, by the gallon jugs of PYA Blue Label marischino cherries. I brought home some of the empty gallon jugs. I was going to put bulk sugar and flour in them. I never could get the cherry juice smell out of the jugs, though. Today the PYA Monarch warehouse on White Horse Road is the warehouse and distributions center for the collection of, storage of, and distrubition of foods for local food banks.
