Posted on 12/09/2021 12:19:45 PM PST by mylife
Foodies go to great lengths to get their lips on the world’s finest ham. But if you wouldn’t transport prize boar sperm from Portugal, invest $200,000 to import your own pigs, raise litters free range on organic grains and imported acorns, and dry age their hind legs by hand for years—well, then you’re not as obsessed as Rodrigo Duarte, owner and butcher at Caseiro e Bom.
The son of pig farmers in Portugal, Duarte grew up raising and butchering hogs, but didn’t have the opportunity to open his own place until he emigrated to Newark, New Jersey’s Portuguese enclave, the Ironbound district, where he worked at a supermarket meat counter while saving for his own butcher shop. “I didn’t really sleep back then,” Duarte says. “I worked long shifts, then stayed up all night making my own sausages.”
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just ordered some Carolina mustard based BBQ sauce that would rock on piggy!! roast em on the spit or smoker all damn night..
“I never thought acorns made em that tasty”
My father told that during the Great Depression they would let their hogs forage in the NE Texas woods for acorns (didn’t have the money to feed them), never said anything about that helping the taste.
My son one visit from CO to NC, bought a case of BBQ sauce at Stamey's - THE VATCAN of BBQ in Greensboro. (TSA opened it, but it did get back intact to CO)...
I was going to respond 59 and73 KM4WTP Until I realized what type of ham we’re talking about
The best I ever had was in Italy.
Tx deer feed on Post Oak acorns, best to feed them corn..
73’s!
EU regs make that so expensive.. but yeah it’s good!
“You must be one of those 609 area codes”
It’s “Youz must be one-a doze 609 area codez”.
Originally. But by the time I got back from working and
living in 6 other states, the phone powers-that-be had
changed my 'birth-region' to the 856 area code.
And the big jerks didn't even consult me about the decision
to make the change. The nerve...
Mpphhffff...
If it makes you feel better, my 610 brethren got 484’d in the last decade...
I would say that I don't really care about the area code changes -
except that I know - deep down - 'tis the work of the Jersey Devil!
(So something evil is afoot.)
And yes, the Jersey Devil (former NJ governor James T. Florio)
still resides in the Garden State - in Metuchen, I believe.
(No, Florio has nothing to do with the phone system as far as I know.)
/sarc
I think the Hoboken chicken is somehow involved.
Is both a restaurant and a movie - I think.
I am a SOUTH Jersey native - as you have deduced -
so I don't get your whole 'Hoboken chicken-Telephone'
connection...
Humor me - I grew up on the edge of the Pine Barrens
so I do a have a 'Piney' intellect, of a sort...
Bkmk
Jamon Iberico
https://www.seriouseats.com/inside-the-secret-world-of-super-premium-spanish-jamon-iberico
Sigh.
I have a buddy from NJ, haven’t heard the term ‘Piney’ in sometime, LOL!!
It was the only other fake Jersey legend I could think of.
I had a long day outside in a medium voltage switchyard.
Unfortunately I’m not very creative right now...
Sounds 'Electrifying'.
But I guess you've already heard all of the jokes, eh?
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