Depressing Stuff

[MitchW]

2 hours ago, backyardchef said:

Jonelle is great. We also have Muncan Meats. Morscher's is a big loss. You would have loved the Forest Pork Store and the old Karl Ehmer stores, too. I didn't know you are moving to my neck of the woods. 

Forest Pork Store still exists, but their only retail is in Huntington.  The factory is still in Ridgewood.

There's a Net Cost in Rego Park, which is also a decent shop.

[backyardchef]

Just now, MitchW said:

Forest Pork Store still exists, but their only retail is in Huntington.  The factory is still in Ridgewood.

There's a Net Cost in Rego Park, which is also a decent shop.

Yes. Fantastic that it still exists but their Ridgewood location on Forest Ave is not open to the public anymore. 

[Sneakeater]

SHIT.  I was just IN Huntington, and it just didn't occur to me.

[Sneakeater]

Well, I wasn't really near their store, though.

[Sneakeater]

I am really not taking this Morscher's thing well.

[Mitchell101]

Think about how much healthier your diet will be. 

[Sneakeater]

I don't think the Ridgewood Pork Store is materially healthier than Morscher's -- and it's less of a walk away, so I'll be losing exercise.

[Sneakeater]

If Sundownstairs and Trans-Pecos close, I really might kill myself.

[Wilfrid]

4 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

I am really not taking this Morscher's thing well.

You are right. I have been thinking about how much Mozart sausage could I store in my freezer, but really how much will they make and have to sell? I will go out there one more time and then I guess let go.

[Sneakeater]

Saturday.  When I spend the day getting the gas turned on at the new place.

And right now I have TWO freezers!

Edited January 19, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Wilfrid]

Oh jeez are we competing for the last of the sausage?

[Sneakeater]

I am ready to go to the mat on this.

Edited January 19, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Sneakeater]

And now this.

[small h]

The G train thing will hit some of my friends very hard.

[Sneakeater]

Maybe there's A New Technology From Europe that can avoid the shutdown.

Although this shutdown is less apocalyptic than the averted yearlong L shutdown would have been.

[Sneakeater]

This shows how important it is to get the Interborough Express on track.

[Sneakeater]

Morscher’s was no more of a clusterfuck than usual this morning.  But the mood was elegiac  

I got one of what was announced as their last ever batch of smoked pig’s knuckles, right out of the smoker.  And something I always meant to try that looks like a Mozartwurst on steroids. 

Edited January 20, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Wilfrid]

I need to get out there for some Mozart sausage at least.

[Sneakeater]

After spending the afternoon working on my new apartment yesterday, I took the stuff from Morscher's home in an insulated backpack I bought years ago especially for the purpose of getting stuff home from the Ridgewood pork stores (even if there was a long night at Trans-Pecos or Sundownstairs or H0l0 after the pork store).

It occurs to me that I shall no longer need it.

Edited January 21, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Wilfrid]

Aw c’mon, I still use those to haul stuff back from the good Netcosts or the hilariously misnamed NY Bread in Coney Island.

 

[Sneakeater]

Oh good!  THANKS!

[Sneakeater]

But am I REALLY going to feel any need to schlep to Netco if I can walk a few blocks to the Ridgewood Pork Store?  I'm not so sure about that.

Edited January 22, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Sneakeater]

The Morscher's garlic headcheese I had for lunch today was just a poem, I tell you.

[Sneakeater]

Oy.

[Sneakeater]

I guess I'd BETTER hang onto that bag.