Ex in-law may open a country restaurant. What food would be good for me to buy from her supplier?

[rich in distress]

Grateful11 wrote:
They might try some of these. The meals of the Beverly Hillbillies, ranked in order of edibility.

https://www.metv.com/quiz/the-meals-of-t...-edibility

Great linky!



I’d try the chili.

[RAMd®d]

Bacon.

Get a deal on bacon.

[d4]

Chinese dumplings. It takes years and years of practice to have them turn out as good as they are in restaurants.

[Mr Downtown]

You don't say how much empty freezer space you have, but particular cuts of meat that you enjoy and use often is the first thing that comes to mind. Ones that are already marinated or breaded can be special treats, but you'll need the ability to fry properly (at the right heat consistently), and then finish with gravy, anything like CFS or schnitzel.

I doubt that any bread or produce is special enough to be worth the hassle of storing.

Ready-to-cook dishes, like the aforementioned lasagna, pot pies, cinnamon rolls, curly fries, might be worth investigating—but if you have to buy a case of 12 or 24, you might do just as well at the nearest Sam's Club.

[S. Pupp]

Restaurant Depot blocks of Parm are cheap, and incredibly tasty.

[SteveG]

Dennis S wrote:
Ex in-law may open a country restaurant. What food would be good for me to buy from her supplier?

Albania
on a Paleo diet? try Scythia (unbreaded)

[Paul F.]

A 6lb block of Scrapple!

(God, I miss being able to get Scrapple! The Safeway that used to carry it, well, the East Coast manager that used to keep it stocked retired... so, they don't stock it any more. )

[JoeH]

Paul F. wrote:
A 6lb block of Scrapple!

(God, I miss being able to get Scrapple! The Safeway that used to carry it, well, the East Coast manager that used to keep it stocked retired... so, they don't stock it any more. )

These days for most of the corporate supermarkets the stocking decisions have been taken out of the local managers' hands. The corporate computers have the inventory and sales figures, and decide at the corporate level what to stock in stores based on those figures. Something doesn't meet some sales threshold, and it goes off the restock list.

For other items, the shelf space and stocking is determined by the brand. They pay for access to a certain amount of shelf space, and send restock batches based on what they see sell.

P.S. I haven't seen Scrapple in my local stores in ages either.

[Paul F.]

20 years ago, when he was still working there, he had to put in a request... since Safeway in other parts of the country carried Scrapple, it wasn't hard for him (back then) to get some. Today, it would be a smaller non-chain store, or nothing.

I can order Scrapple from a number of places, but the shipping cost, plus the minimum quantities, make it less attractive to pay $100 and fill my freezer with something I should not be eating quite that much of that often.

I AM considering making some...

JoeH wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
A 6lb block of Scrapple!

(God, I miss being able to get Scrapple! The Safeway that used to carry it, well, the East Coast manager that used to keep it stocked retired... so, they don't stock it any more. )

These days for most of the corporate supermarkets the stocking decisions have been taken out of the local managers' hands. The corporate computers have the inventory and sales figures, and decide at the corporate level what to stock in stores based on those figures. Something doesn't meet some sales threshold, and it goes off the restock list.

For other items, the shelf space and stocking is determined by the brand. They pay for access to a certain amount of shelf space, and send restock batches based on what they see sell.

P.S. I haven't seen Scrapple in my local stores in ages either.

[Dennis S]

One thing I should consider is she probably won't be in business very long.