{"id":11337,"date":"2014-04-14T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:45:44","slug":"lil-smokies-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=11337","title":{"rendered":"Eckrich Lil Smokies Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140414_082047.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11332\" alt=\"Eckrich Lil Smokies\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140414_082047-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m a fiend for &#8220;little smokies&#8221; &#8211; give me a mess of good quality, fine tasting ones, and I&#8217;ll pass on the rest of breakfast. \u00a0You never see them on a restaurant menus, not really sure why.<\/p>\n<p>Like all pork (and meat in general) products, they have gotten really spendy lately, pushing over $6 a pound. While I have some very specific favorite brands, determined by taste and texture, I am a sucker for sale priced ones, and that&#8217;s why I picked up a pack of Eckrich &#8220;Li&#8217;l Smokies&#8221; yesterday. \u00a0They were half the price of the other brands.<\/p>\n<p>Eckrich is part of John Morrell now, and according to the USDA plant number on the package, these babies were made at the Morrell plant in Cincinnati (pictured below).<\/p>\n<p>How were they? \u00a0OK, especially at the price. \u00a0A pork and chicken product (I prefer all beef), they aren&#8217;t as flavorful as some brands I prefer, tasting more like cocktail franks, which should be an entirely different recipe than smokies. \u00a0I&#8217;d buy them again tho, at the sale price.<\/p>\n<p>Why the &#8216;char?&#8217; \u00a0I prefer sausages with natural casings, and you&#8217;ll never see little smokies in a casing. Too expensive, troublesome for mass production I imagine. \u00a0For me, putting a little char on the baby weenies gives them a texture more again to a casing product. That&#8217;s my story and I&#8217;m sticking to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140414_085710.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11333\" alt=\"Eckrich Lil Smokies\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140414_085710-1024x949.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John-morrell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11334\" alt=\"John Morrell Cincinnati\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/John-morrell.jpg\" width=\"526\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lil Smokies Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fiend for &#8220;little smokies&#8221; &#8211; give me a mess of good quality, fine tasting ones, and I&#8217;ll pass on the rest of breakfast. \u00a0You never see them on a restaurant menus, not really sure why. Like all pork (and meat in general) products, they have gotten really spendy lately, pushing over $6 a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=11337\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eckrich Lil Smokies 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":[4,11,15,16,26],"tags":[106,711,1972,3122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337"}],"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=11337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}