"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:03:13 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> > wrote:
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>>On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:48:06 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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>>snip
>>. I also love olive loaf, one cat likes that.
>>snip
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>>Olive loaf is getting so hard to find out here and really expensive.
>>All the good, old timey stuff is gone.
>>Janet US
>
> In the NY area good cold cuts are readily available, but in much of
> the US there were never any good cold cuts. When I was in other areas
> of the country I was amazed at what folks considered quality deli.

The deli concept is a fairly new one at many stores here. When I was a kid
I don't think any stores had a deli. I didn't even know what cold cuts
were. We had bologna. Once in a while, olive loaf. When I was in Jr. High
I discovered Buddig meats which I think are really pretty bad but I do know
some people who like them.

The first deli department I remember seeing was in Albertsons. I never
bought anything directly from there but once in a while I would buy a
package of their cheese ends that I used for casseroles and things. I have
never seen any cheese ends since then. And never any meat ends here
although I have seen them in PA. This would have been probably 25 years ago
or so.

Since that time I have bought deli meat maybe twice. I don't think it was
any better than some of the package stuff. But some of the packaged stuff
is right horrible! I think one that we bought was the Sara Lee brand.
Tasted awful.