{"id":11328,"date":"2014-04-05T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2014-04-05T07:33:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T14:33:24","slug":"eckrich-lil-smokes-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=11328","title":{"rendered":"Eckrich Lil Smokes Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eckrich<\/a>I’m a fiend for “little smokies’ as a breakfast meat. \u00a0Give me enough of them of good quality, and I’ll skip the eggs, toast, and potatoes. You never see them on restaurant menus, though I don’t know why.<\/p>\n

My personal preference is for the all beef variety, though I am motivated by price point too, and that’s why I grabbed a package of Eckrich’s yesterday, which were on sale for half the price of the other brands. Like all pork products, the price of smokies has skyrocketed lately, and they easily tip the $ scales at $6 a pound, plus.<\/p>\n

Cooked them up this morning and they were ok, especially considering the price. \u00a0They aren’t as flavorful as some of the other brands, and taste more like “cocktail franks”, which should, and usually are, a totally different product than little smokies.<\/p>\n

Why the ‘burnt’ appearance? \u00a0I am predisposed to prefer sausages with a natural casing, and as far as I know, there are no little smokies with casings. Too difficult and expensive for mass production, I imagine. \u00a0So the ‘char’, presents a texture that more closely resembles a natural casing sausage. \u00a0That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!<\/p>\n

I’d buy them again at the same price, but at the same price point as other brands, I’d opt for my usual favorites. According to the USDA plant number, these babies are manufactured at John Morrell’s plant in Cincinnati (pictured below).<\/p>\n

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I’m a fiend for “little smokies’ as a breakfast meat. \u00a0Give me enough of them of good quality, and I’ll skip the eggs, toast, and potatoes. You never see them on restaurant menus, though I don’t know why. My personal preference is for the all beef variety, though I am motivated by price point too,… Continue reading Eckrich Lil Smokes Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15,16,26],"tags":[106,711,3122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}