Category: Gifts & Seasonal

Father’s Day is June 21 this year. If your dad’s getting another tie, that’s on you. Mr. Mc’s Market builds Father’s Day gifts that actually fit the dad you’ve got — fishing tackle, smoked meats, custom baskets, hotlinks for the grill, or all of it together.

Gift Ideas That Match the Dad

For the Dad Who Fishes

Pull together a tackle gift from our Bait & Tackle aisle:

• Jar of Mr. Mc’s Magical Catfish Stink Bait
• A few packs of Crappie Terminator lures
• Treble hooks, jigheads, line
• Pound of live minnows (pick up the day of)

For the river runners and pond fishermen — this is the gift that earns you a fishing trip together.

For the Dad Who Grills

Pick from Wichita’s largest selection of hotlinks and pair it with rubs, sauces, and a six-pack from the cooler. Add a meat thermometer, a grill brush, and we’ll wrap it.

For the Dad Who Just Wants to Eat

Order ahead from Fat Boyz Take-and-Bake — ribs, mac, greens, cornbread. He doesn’t lift a finger, dinner is on the table. Use our preorder page to lock it in for Father’s Day.

For the Dad Who Smokes

Our Smoke Shop carries premium cigars, lighters, cigar cutters, and humidor accessories. Wrap a couple cigars with his favorite drink — done.

The Catch-All: A Custom Father’s Day Basket

Can’t pick just one? We build custom gift baskets in Wichita — tell us your dad’s hobbies and budget, we put together a mix of snacks, drinks, hotlinks, tackle, smoke shop items, whatever fits. Most baskets ready same day.

Order Lead Time

• Standard baskets and tackle gifts: same-day pickup
• Father’s Day soul food trays: order by Thursday June 18 so we have the meat ready
• Large custom baskets (over $100): give us 2–3 days

Use our preorder page to reserve trays and big baskets.

Why Local Beats Online for Father’s Day

• Real items, picked the week you buy them — no shipping risk, no warehouse stuff
• Personal touch — we hand-build, you can preview before it goes out
• Local pickup or local delivery
• You’re keeping it Wichita — dollars stay in the neighborhood

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Stop by Mr. Mc’s Market — Wichita’s Neighborhood Spot

📍 1901 E 21st St N, Wichita, KS 67214
📞 (316) 265-9930
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🕐 Open 9 AM – 9 PM, 7 days a week

👉 Reserve your Father’s Day gift now — call (316) 265-9930 or stop in.

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Need a gift basket in Wichita and don’t have a week to wait? Mr. Mc’s Market builds custom gift baskets right in the store — most ready to grab the same day you order. Birthdays, funerals, get-wells, holidays, thank-yous — we put it together while you take care of everything else.

What Goes in a Mr. Mc’s Gift Basket

We build to fit the occasion. Standard pulls include:

• Snacks — chips, popcorn, cookies, jerky
• Candy — chocolates, hard candy, gummies, gum
• Drinks — sodas, juices, water, energy drinks
• Personal care — soaps, lotions, deodorants
• Tobacco accessories (where appropriate)
• Hotlinks and meats for the meat-eaters in the family
• Fresh fruit in season
• A handwritten card

We can also build themed baskets — Father’s Day grilling basket, Mother’s Day pamper basket, fisherman’s tackle basket, get-well comfort basket. Tell us who it’s for and we’ll put it together.

Occasions We Build For

Birthdays

Candy, snacks, a card, and whatever the person actually likes — not just whatever’s pre-packaged.

Funerals & Sympathy

A respectful basket of comfort items, snacks, and easy meals for the family during a hard week. Often paired with a Fat Boyz tray (see Soul Food Saturday & Sunday).

Get-Well

Light snacks, juices, soup, soft foods. We can adjust if there are dietary needs.

Holidays

Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas — themed baskets built around what the holiday calls for.

Thank-Yous

For teachers, coaches, neighbors, mechanics, hairdressers. A small basket that says thanks without breaking the bank.

Pricing

Our gift basket section carries options at every price point. Tell us your budget — $25, $50, $100, more — and we’ll build to it. Nothing fancy, nothing wasted.

Order Lead Time

Most baskets we can put together same day if you stop in by early afternoon. For weekends, holidays, or large quantities (10+ baskets for an event), give us a day or two and use our preorder page to lock it in.

Why People Use Us Over Online Gift Sites

• Real items, picked the day you need it. Nothing sits in a warehouse.
• Custom, not boxed. We adjust to who it’s for.
• Local pickup or local delivery — no waiting on shipping.
• You get to see it before it goes out. Approve, swap, or add anything you want.

See the Gift Baskets page or stop in and tell us what you need.

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Stop by Mr. Mc’s Market — Wichita’s Neighborhood Spot

📍 1901 E 21st St N, Wichita, KS 67214
📞 (316) 265-9930
📧 admin@mrmcsmarket.com
🕐 Open 9 AM – 9 PM, 7 days a week

👉 Need a custom Wichita gift basket? Call (316) 265-9930 — most baskets ready same day.

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Nothing says Kansas summer like a cold watermelon on a hot day. Here’s when local melons start hitting stands, how to pick one that’s actually ripe, and what to look for at Mr. Mc’s Market when the season’s on.

When Does Watermelon Season Start in Kansas?

Local Kansas watermelons usually start hitting in late June and run strong through early September. The peak is mid-July to mid-August — that’s when local melons are the cheapest, sweetest, and most plentiful.

Before late June, the watermelons in stores are mostly trucked in from Texas, Florida, and Georgia. Those are fine — but a melon grown right here in Kansas, picked ripe, hauled less than a hundred miles? Different sweetness. Different juice.

How to Pick a Good Watermelon

Forget thumping it. Here’s what actually works:

1. Check the Field Spot

Flip the melon over and look for a yellow or cream-colored patch where it sat on the ground. Bright creamy yellow = ripe. White or pale green = picked early. The darker yellow, the longer it stayed on the vine.

2. Check the Weight

A ripe watermelon feels heavy for its size. Lift two melons of the same size and pick the one that pulls your arm down. More water means more sweetness.

3. Check the Tail

The curly tendril where the melon attached to the vine should be dry and brown. Green tendril = picked too early.

4. Check the Skin

Dull, matte skin = ripe. Shiny, waxy skin = under-ripe. Sounds backwards but it’s true.

5. The Thump Test (If You Insist)

A ripe melon sounds hollow and deep when you thump it — like knocking on a wood door. An under-ripe melon sounds dull and dead, like knocking on drywall. An over-ripe melon sounds soft.

What We Stock at Mr. Mc’s Market

We pull in melons from local Kansas growers as soon as the harvest starts. When the season’s running, we usually have:

• Seeded red watermelons — old-school sweetness, the way summer used to taste
• Seedless red watermelons — easier to eat, still sweet
• Yellow watermelons — milder, almost honey-like
• Orange watermelons — sweetest of the bunch, harder to find

See our seeded, orange, and yellow watermelon lineup and check what’s in stock when the season opens.

How to Store It

Whole watermelon: room temperature on the counter, up to a week. Cold storage stops it from getting sweeter, so don’t refrigerate until you cut it.

Cut watermelon: airtight container, in the fridge, three to five days.

Eat It While You Can

Kansas watermelon season is short and hot. Three months, maybe four. When you see them on the stand, grab one — they’re at their best for a stretch you can count on one hand.

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Stop by Mr. Mc’s Market — Wichita’s Neighborhood Spot

📍 1901 E 21st St N, Wichita, KS 67214
📞 (316) 265-9930
📧 admin@mrmcsmarket.com
🕐 Open 9 AM – 9 PM, 7 days a week

👉 Want to see what melons are in today? Call (316) 265-9930 or stop in once Kansas season opens.

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