>>>Doesn't help. At least with knockwurst - we were buying a pack or two every month, but some smart ass at Kroger decided they aren't selling, and replaced them with something where half the meat is replaced with something they call "cheese". Or they increased the assortment of franks from 18 identical sponge recipes to 19.
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>>I thought you didn't buy any of that pre processed food. Knockwurst ?
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>I tried it and it tasted right. Actually, better than right - it was exactly the old recipe, the way the franks were made when I was a kid and the local factory was doing them the pre-industrial way, by a recipe their sausage-makers learned long before WWII. Later it all went to machine mixing, adding spices to cover the ingredients etc.
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>So these were the right stuff, a real rarity. I could have expected they wouldn't last. One by one, the wineries where there's still one old guy who remembers that wine can be made out of grapes, too, are vanishing.

Ask Naomi to send you some from Milwaukee. They use the original recipe and have over 70 varieties. Or better yet, just order them:

http://www.usinger.com/ala_links.php
http://www.usinger.com/tidbits_history.php
http://www.usinger.com/shipping2.php