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If you get the gumption to try some of their products , or already have, let me know what they're like.
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11-13-2006 @10:53PM Julie said... I was forced to 'try' pickled pigs feet as a child.
Good luck to these guys if they think they can sell them! Large quantities, small quantities....doesn't matter a bit, they are still GROSS! (in my yankee opinion)
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11-14-2006 @1:20AM melorama said... Pickled pigs feet are a Hawaii thing, as well.
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11-14-2006 @3:18AM Mel said... I wonder how the sausages taste pre-pickled...
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11-14-2006 @6:29AM Monica said... My parents are German so I grew up eating sauerkraut with pigs feet. Though the pigs feet were not pickled or bathed in a nuclear redish/orangish liquid I can say on thing, they were and still are delicious to this day. Even now as an adult, I get a craving for them especially when the weather turns cooler.
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11-16-2006 @6:37AM Joseph Jackson said... The pickled pigs feet are great, I have lived in the south all my life and have eaten some strange things, but the trotters are tempting and good, the sausage are offered in hot and mild, the hot are the best, the eggs are a tad rubbery, but are eatible. you should try more southern yummies like pigs brains, and even tripe
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11-14-2006 @8:59AM larry Morman said... Pickled pigs feet , yum. If you ever spent time in Kensington in Philadephia on the bar scene in the 70's then you probably tried these sticky, delicious morsels of skin, cartalage and meat marinated in brine that tastes great after four shots of imperial whiskey and four schmidts beers. Ahh to be able to recapture our youth. Wonderful food memories.
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11-14-2006 @12:01PM John Devane said... Picle pig feet would be a great thing for a superbowl party. and sounds like a manly type Hors D'oeuvres. I'd like to do it myself
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11-14-2006 @11:59AM John Devane said... This is a great business and lots of people love them
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11-14-2006 @10:59AM Terry said... I live in the south and have try and like all the pickled food that have been around and I am on the other side of the pickled food as Julie is to me there a lots of the yankee food that is more gross than the pickled pig feet.The peoples that make these food do not make you buy are eat them so to the ones that say it is gross are the ones that have never try any other food that does not come from a can are not cooked in a dinner
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11-14-2006 @10:59AM Jumper said... Not into the pig's feet, but I love the pickled sausages and eggs. They are great with cold beer. I used to work in a little convenience store that sold these and they sold like crazy. Customers would ask for the jars of the juice when we sold all the eggs, sausages or pig's feet out of them. (we had a pair of tongs next to them to sell them one by one). And for the record I had my first pickled egg and sausage in Kansas.
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11-14-2006 @3:31PM sharon rybak said... there are nothing like pigs feet, pickled or otherwise. My mom was german and we grew up on all kinds of peasant food. that is the problem and the reason there is the obesity epidemic in this country, people have to be "proper" all the time instead of enjoying what the good lord gave you. Try it you may like it.
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11-14-2006 @8:31PM Dawn said... Pickled Pigsfeet. Thank you for making relive my childhood trauma. My grandma ,who was raised on a southern hog farm ,made me eat them. YUCK!!!! However, she did make good barbecued pigsfeet.
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11-14-2006 @9:55PM MJ said... Pickled pigs feet are great the ones without the red food dye! Hormel makes a good one that are boneless!
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11-15-2006 @5:51AM PC said... The super-hot pickled eggs are great with a cold beer and a ball-game. It's really a must-try for anyone. This should be standard bar food in my opinion.
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