>>>>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.
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>I went to my local fish and chip shop last Friday. It is/was very good.
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>It looked the same from the outside, it looked the same inside. But all the people where different, slowly I realised they didn't really know what they where doing. Turned out the Greek family who ran it had sold up the previous week.
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>No "New Management "sign, all the old awards signs on the walls . I had to wait 40 minutes (thats a lifetime for fish and chips) but I had to let them have a go. Not good.

Fish and chips I miss. You can find it here but it's not the same.

I saw Elvis Costello play in Manchester and he went into a long monologue about the history of fish and chips wrap. He said it used to be old newspapers, then someone decided the newsprint could get on the food and was bad for you. So then it became newspaper stock with no printing on it.