Fischer’s Meat Market was one of those local places you could walk to for all of your groceries, preventing that area of York, PA from being a food desert—a term that wouldn’t surface for years and something we needn’t have worried about in the prosperous 1960s. The market had canned foods, veggies, and of courseContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (3)”
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A Secret About Eggs
Here’s a secret absolutely no one knows about me: I don’t like the taste of eggs. I’ve never revealed this to anyone, from childhood to retirement. Until now. As a child I would only eat the white part. Eventually I started eating the yolk. But I never liked eggs. Many people have seen me eatContinue reading “A Secret About Eggs”
I’m a Meatatarian
What are your feelings about eating meat? In grade school at the Immaculate Conception of Saint Mary school (known more commonly as St. Mary’s), we often heard the delivery of animals to Fisher’s Meat Market. They slaughtered the animals on site, in the back. As I observe in my book Immaculate Misconceptions: Tales of CatholicContinue reading “I’m a Meatatarian”
Deee-licious!
What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten? The ironic thing is, the one thing I once found most delicious is now one of the most abhorred items. I grew up with Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e., German) cooking. Pretty much everything was boiled. Put a large beef roast in a roasting pan, fill it 2/3 withContinue reading “Deee-licious!”