N.J. Brothers Send 2 Tons of Salami to Soldiers

Fox News ^ | May 7, 2005 | Associated Press

[La Enchiladita]

NEWARK, N.J. — Brothers Marc and Michael Brummer figure the best way they can help support U.S. troops stationed in Iraq is to try to feed them — thousands of them.

The co-owners of Hobby's Deli hope to send salami to the entire 42nd Infantry Division, currently in Tikrit.

It'll take an estimated 23,000 salamis to reach that goal. But the first 2,000 or so of the dried meat — about 2 tons in all — was boxed and loaded onto a U.S. Postal Service truck Tuesday in the first phase of what the brothers dubbed "Operation Salami Drop."

"We know there are a bunch of homesick men and women over there, and to be able to do something. ... How do you put words to it? You have to do something. I can do salamis," Marc Brummer said.

[La Enchiladita]

Is this great news, or what?

"There's nothing like the scene of soldiers getting a package and turning to share it with their friends and fellow soldiers," Rothman wrote in an e-mail from Iraq on Tuesday. "When it's something homemade, something unique that reminds you of home and of your civilian life, it can really make your day."

[La Enchiladita]

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[nothingnew]

Is this great news, or what?

Yes!...and, "look at the size of that salami!"

FMCDH(BITS)

[Nachum]

Salami.

yum

[La Enchiladita]

Yes, forget about sending Slim Jims from now on. The Brummer Brothers have raised the bar.

[MississippyMuddy]

"look at the size of that salami!"

Something I've not heard from my wife say in 15 years................

[RepoGirl]

I heard about this a few days ago and thought what a cool gesture it was. Then, I had more of a Homer Simpson reaction, "Mmmmmmmmmmmmm... Salami."

How does that Thom Lehrer song go? "Goodbye Mommy, I'm off to kill a commie--so send me a salami, and try to smile somehow..."

[Marine_Uncle]

Shame some how someone can't arrange for thousands of kegs of beer to be shipped into Iraq and Afganistan, via. barrels marked as some given petroleum lubrication. The salami would really go down great.

[F16Fighter]

Butta-bing...butta-boom...aye-e-e-OH!

[varon]

via. barrels marked as some given petroleum lubrication.

Mark the barrels as containing mouthwash ;-)

[Marine_Uncle]

" Mark the barrels as containing mouthwash ;-)"

What ever best can pass through. Guess your suggestion is far closer to being truthfull. And much more realistic in how it could be distributed. We want to make sure all branches serving at all locations get at least a few hundred barrels.
They have earned it.

[rdl6989]

Shame some how someone can't arrange for thousands of kegs of beer to be shipped into Iraq and Afganistan, via. barrels marked as some given petroleum lubrication. The salami would really go down great.

I wonder if such things have been/are being done.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I wonder if such things have been/are being done.

Nope!

hehehe.

[Marine_Uncle]

"I wonder if such things have been/are being done."

One never knows. But I believe in respect to the Islamic faith, and agreements meet with the Iraqi's way back when,
our military are not allowed to import into the country anything that is forbade, such as alchohol and pork products.
However, it would be erroneous not to point out that some coalition troops have through more secular Arabs and others in parts of Iraq, obtained alcholic beverages. After all one only walk into a liquere store in Baghdad for instance to obtain lets say a point of booze. Under Saddam booze was permitted in the country.

[rdl6989]

Thanks, I didn't know that about the pork products.

[dancusa]

I heard Al Franken and Michael Moore were going to send some bologna to Iraq.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Thanks, I didn't know that about the pork products."
Yes. Go to any military site that has suggested shipping instructions for send care packages to our troops. Pork is a no no. After all, every Islamic sect views pork as a dirty animal, henceforth are not permitted to eat it.

[rogue yam]

Reminds me of the sign in Katz's deli (lower Manhattan):

"Send a salami to your boy in the Army."

[Wolverine]

"Send a Salami to your Boy in the Army!"  the salami-shipping trend has transcended the decades since World War II .

Most people credit Katz’s Deli for “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army,” but it actually comes from Louie the Waiter.

12 November 1943, Washington Post, pg. 13:
The New Yorker will do a profile on Louie, the Waiter, who coined the couplet, “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army,” and who alone sold $2,060,000 in war bonds at the delicatessen in the Fifties where he is employed.

The bonds he sold paid for 66 P-47 THunderbolt fighter planes and each bore the name “Louie the Waiter” and his sales record to that date.

[Marine_Uncle]

There simply are hundreds of thousands of good people in this country. So many have done good for others and have not received an earthly reward in return. Their rewards will be given out in heaven.