Best Brown Mustard on The PLANET

[ROX]

Thanks DieAz!  I really enjoyed the write-up on salami making.  It's definitely NOT easy and very little room for error.

It's definitely more involved than making cheese...both take time.

Dak is AWESOME because it's not only beef "hard" salami, but has garlic seasonings and NO black pepper.  It might be able to duplicate it, but that wouldn't be as cost efficient as just trying to find a Dak connection.  If you haven't tasted it, it's difficult to explain.

I had a chat with one of the Dak vice presidents about bringing the salami line back to US stores and even gave a proposal on a marketing re-roll out, but they don't plan on doing that any time soon.

Boar's Head has a decent beef salami, usually only available at high end delicatessens.

BTW:  If Beaver Mustard was the best....It would have won the 2008 International Mustard Competition.


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[DieAz]

http://lpoli.50webs.com/Sausage%20recipes.htm

lotta recipes listed I D/Led about 1/2 too tired to do more.

yes, always takes time to make the best of any type of foods.

Mead is easy upfront, but lotta work to rack and finish to bottles. but well worth it.
Salami, sausages, meat stuff, is lotta work upfront, but at the finish end is easy.

did you ask the Dak V.P. if there was a place online you could order and have it ship direct, since they don't have a U.S. distribution as it is?

[Toad]

the same thing about pork roll.

Which do you favor, Taylor's or Case's? Man, it's been YEARS since I had me some. Still remember it from growing up in Jersey though.

I think Taylor's is the one, IMO.

I ought to start importing that out here... hmmmmm

[DieAz]

http://lpoli.50webs.com/index_files/NewJerseyPorkRoll.pdf

says it is a Taylor clone.

New Jersey Pork Roll: A clone of Taylor's Pork Roll

[ROX]

Dak's canned ham & lunchmeats are still marketed to the US and are sold through what you'd call an import firm that also sell domestic ham &  lunchmeat products.  There's a few websites were you can get the ham & lunchmeats...but not the salami.

I'll have to check the regs, but the USDA & FDA have some funky rules about trying to import meat, eggs, seeds, medicines, etc.

That's why I was hoping somebody (who plays AH) might have a connection to Dak salami in Puerto Rico.


ROX

[SirLoin]

Ask Curval

i thought Storch took care of Rook diaper service?

[DieAz]

you know Puerto Rico is bound by the same Federal Laws as the States are, right?

Puerto Rico has authority over its internal affairs. United States controls: interstate trade, foreign relations and commerce, customs administration, control of air, land and sea, immigration and emigration, nationality and citizenship, currency, maritime laws, military service, military bases, army, navy and air force, declaration of war, constitutionality of laws, jurisdictions and legal procedures, treaties, radio and television--communications, agriculture, mining and minerals, highways, postal system; Social Security, and other areas generally controlled by the federal government in the United States. Puerto Rican institutions control internal affairs unless U.S. law is involved, as in matters of public health and pollution. The major differences between Puerto Rico and the 50 states are exemption from some aspects of the Internal Revenue Code, its lack of voting representation in either house of the U.S. Congress (Senate and House of Representatives), the ineligibility of Puerto Ricans to vote in presidential elections, and its lack of assignation of some revenues reserved for the states.

from here http://welcome.topuertorico.org/government.shtml

[bongaroo]

holy crap, a world wide mustard competition?  why have I never heard of this?!!??!!  i love mustard, and I'm not talking about cmustard, i mean, i'm sure he's swell and all....

mmmmmmm   spicy mustard

[ROX]

Well..it's the customs crap that I might have problems with.

Example:  There was this MDF firm that I was Director of Marketing for for a while, and there were times that I needed to send boxes of high-end crown moulding and product samples to reps in the field.  One rep was in Puerto Rico.  The hassles, paperwork and customs forms were a MAJOR hassle...and that was just for a wood product sent UPS.

I'd be interested to see how much of a pain in the keester trying to get food products (much less meat that wasn't inspected by the FDA).  If Dak can sell canned ham in the US it HAS to be possible somehow.  Argentina markets a number of beef products in the US.


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[DieAz]

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/pubs/fsheet_faq_notice/notice_PPQ-puerto.html

note:

Note: Commercially canned and thoroughly cooked
foods are permitted. All permissible agricultural products
are subject to inspection.

the reasons for the hassles has to do with invasive species. they need inspections (both ways) to protect the natural resources from alien species.  (can you say Kudzu? if you're not from the South, this might go over your head as in swoosh.)

(much less meat that wasn't inspected by the FDA).

meats in Puerto Rico are inspected by the USDA. same as mainland U.S.
and they do have to follow FDA regulations as well.

for all intents and purposes Puerto Rico is a U.S. State. it has a Governor, the current President of Puerto Rico is U.S. President Bush. they don't pay Fed taxes because they have no representation (vote) in the U.S. Gov't Affairs. they do have a person present in Congress to voice concerns. they don't have a vote in Federal Elections.

(where is the beating head against the wall smiley? or slap him upside the head.  )

[Dowding]

I've been to Puerto Rico - Christmas Day, 1999. Nice place, but a little quiet (for obvious reasons). The Hard Rock Cafe was about the only thing open.

[RightF00T]

I remember reading (was it here, Eskimo? Pongo? Curval?) someone who was preparing a sandwich at the same time he was changing his kid's diaper... thought he had mustard on his fingers and well... I have been unable to eat mustard since that day. Dijon or not Dijon...

That's what my first post was referring to. 

EDIT: Hmmm...don't know why I thought it was Curval...I've never heard of that Twist guy.

[DREDIOCK]

Which do you favor, Taylor's or Case's? Man, it's been YEARS since I had me some. Still remember it from growing up in Jersey though.

I think Taylor's is the one, IMO.

I ought to start importing that out here... hmmmmm

Taylor hands down.

Now to make you drool.

Pork Roll (sliced thick) Egg and cheese sandwich on a hard roll

Even better yet is the way I order it

Pork Roll Egg and SWISS cheese on a hard roll.

[PhantomBarron]

Ha, The condiment corner of the Aces High community. Try blending one herbaria pepper
With the traditional French’s mustard. Very good on ham or bologna sandwich. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

If you get caught putting mustard on a bratwurst in Germany you'll get thrown out of the restaurant.