Category: Ham & Bacon

Hillshire Farms Deli Meat Review

Ai yi yi. So in 1939, Nathan Cummings acquired the CD Kenny company, which begat the Sprague Warner Kenny Company, which became Consolidated Grocers, which became Consolidated Foods Corporation, which acquired The Kitchens of Sara Lee, which became Consolidated’s largest brand so they changed their name to Sara Lee, and they acquired Hillshire Farms, which… Continue reading Hillshire Farms Deli Meat Review

Portland, OR – Overlook Family Restaurant Review

I like “greasy spoons”, and more especially, those American diner type restaurants that have some kind of connection to the Greek culture. Such is the case with the Overlook, which I would pop in every day if I lived in the neighborhood.  Instead, it’s only my second time in four years. It’s your standard diner… Continue reading Portland, OR – Overlook Family Restaurant Review

Mama Cozzis Mega Meat Thin Crust Pizza

  Mama Cozzi’s Pizza Kitchen is an in-house brand at discount grocer Aldi, owned by the same German company that owns Trader Joes.  Aldi primarily contracts with food manufacturers to make products under brand names that Aldi has chosen, and they are quite often top manufacturers in the segment;  Aldi offers the products for significantly… Continue reading Mama Cozzis Mega Meat Thin Crust Pizza

Elgin, IL – Kendalls Kountry Kitchen Review

Damn.  Old timey diner, affable chatty waitresses (including the owner),  great food, great value.  So unassuming from the outside (left) you’d be likely to pass by if you weren’t looking for it, or one of the locals that has made a daily habit of stopping in for the last couple decades.  I know I would… Continue reading Elgin, IL – Kendalls Kountry Kitchen Review

West Dundee, IL – Chubby Bullfrog Bar & Grill Review

I’m not sure if I’ll ever get used to bars and restaurants in strip malls.  I guess it’s perfectly fine to younger generations, but the idea of trying to squeeze “ambiance” into a former yogurt shop or dry cleaner just seems a stretch to me. The Chubby Bullfrog sees itself as a sports bar, with… Continue reading West Dundee, IL – Chubby Bullfrog Bar & Grill Review

Fricks Ham Review

Ran into a product I hadn’t seen before, a boneless half  ham from Frick’s Meat, a purveyor from Washington, MO (about 40 miles west of St. Louis, halfway between I-70 on the north, and I-44 on the south.  Frick’s has been around for nearly a century and a quarter, and manufacturers processed pork products, including… Continue reading Fricks Ham Review

Stoneridge Meats

In nearly the geographic center of Wisconsin, a small town named Wautoma, Stoneridge Market is a full service grocery store that has a wholesale meat manufacturing  and distributing division, and if that weren’t enough, they own a winter inner tubing park nearby.  Their in-house meat counter features dozens of flavors of bratwurst, as well as… Continue reading Stoneridge Meats

Worlds Oldest Sausage Restaurant – Nuremburg

Seventy years ago this month, the only Americans around Nuremberg were 10,000 feet over it, dropping bombs to break the industrial backbone of the Third Reich; 90% of the city was destroyed and 100,000 people killed. You can’t tell. The city has been rebuilt to look exactly as it did before the bombing. From photographs,… Continue reading Worlds Oldest Sausage Restaurant – Nuremburg

Elgin, IL – Elgin Public House Reviews

Geez I love to be surprised at a restaurant, especially one that has got a rep for burgers – you know, that’s what I write about. Like I was supposed to be amazed at Los Angeles’ Umami Burger, but wasn’t. Across town in West L.A., tho, I was blown away by the burger at Golden… Continue reading Elgin, IL – Elgin Public House Reviews