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On The Street: In line at Cannuli Bros.
Swine time. Photo l Felicia D'Ambrosio
On The Street: In line at Cannuli Bros.
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| Swine time. |
| Photo l Felicia D'Ambrosio |
Who says all college students eat is Easy Mac?
Waiting in line yesterday behind a gang of bluff college dudes at Cannuli Bros. Quality Meats & Poultry (née Cannuli's House of Pork), I was amused to hear a sole girl squealing with delighted disgust over all of the animal parts that were so exotic to her.
"Ewwww, smoked turkey butts! That's so grooooossss," she exclaimed. Then, to the closest male, "Do you want to eat some beeeef kidneys?" all followed by rapid-fire giggling. It was then that a white-coated butcher came out of the big walk-in with a plastic-shrouded pig carcass and hung it from the rear legs on a hook in front of them.
"Here you go, " he said to the alpha boy. "You want it wrapped in paper or keep it in the plastic?"
"Ummmm, paper," he decided. As the boys handed two debit cards to the butcher for the $125, 60-pound pig, Miss Giggles turned up her nervous rat-tat laughter, staring in wonder and horror at her dead, dressed future dinner.
I could no longer stay out of this scene. "What are you going to do with that?" I inquired of the Alpha Boy. "How are you going to cook it?"
"Well, we built this cinder-block barbecue thing ... " he offered, smiling with anticipation of he and his bros manfully charring this freaking gigantic piece of meat over an even-more-manly fire.
"Nice. Have fun," I responded. "You should eat the cheeks."
"Eat the the what?"
"The cheeks," I repeated. "It' the best part." He nodded warily.
The butcher, returned with double credit-card slips, gestures to the pig, now wrapped and taped in brown paper. "Who's going to carry this?" Alpha boy heads over to the hook and allows the butcher to lay the papered pig over his shoulder, and they troop out, bearing the pig to the car like a victorious hunting party. There will be meat tonight, helpless villagers!
Cannuli Bros. is famous for selling fully roasted, ready-to-eat pigs. For those who prefer a cooking challenge, they have thoughtfully provided instructions and methods for roasting a whole hog on their Web site. I've got my fingers crossed for the college dudes. I hope they bought a meat thermometer.
Cannuli Bros. Quality Meats & Poultry, 937 S. Ninth St., 215-922-2988, cannulismeats.com
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