On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:33:32 +0000, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 13/03/2021 13:38, Boron Elgar wrote:
>
>> I live in a part of NJ that has a deep-rooted Italian heritage. Every
>> fall at peak tomato harvest time, the local produce specialty shops
>> stock huge pots (that I jokingly refer to as "baby boilers"), massive
>> food mills, and propane gas rings to be used outside to make sauce.
>> All the canning equipment is near the store displays, too, right next
>> to tons of Roma and other sauce tomatoes. Many home gardened tomatoes
>> get used, too.
>>
>Sounds like Corrado's. I haven't been there in ages.


YES! There is the original one in Clifton and we have had one in town
here for maybe 8-10 years, too. The original one is way more
exciting..

My favorite Corrado's story is from many years ago...I used to drag
the kids there when they were small, because there was always
something interesting to look at. One visit they had a large container
of snails- sort of like a barrel. The whole thing had wide plastic
strips hanging around the barrel from ceiling to floor for some sort
of protection, I guess, but each strip had lots of snails crawling up
and down. Delightful to watch.

Damn near every visit I'd see some fruit or vegetable I had never
tried, or jarred or canned or bagged food from an exotic place with
printing in a language I could not decipher. Like an inexpensive
foreign trip. Loads of fun.