|
|
|
Only bloody-nosed twits prefer cocaine to kielbasy
The Web site for the award-winning alternative weekly, the Philadelphia City Paper.
Only bloody-nosed twits prefer cocaine to kielbasy
 |
| "I have hot kielbasa for you." |
The AP reported on this bust of a brilliant criminal drug ring operating out of a butcher shop in Brooklyn today:
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty "hot kielbasa" — for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the kielbasa was really cocaine — not the Polish sausage sold in a popular meat market.
According to a criminal complaint, the "hot kielbasa" was kept in the basement.
Twenty-six suspects are under arrest, including the butcher, after an FBI informant visited the shop in response to the message: "Come to the store, I have hot kielbasa for you."
Homoerotic implications aside, what kind of a fool prefers stepped-on coke from a butcher's basement to the pride of the Poles, kielbasy? The smoked delight is available in its finest form at the Northeast's own Czerw's Kielbasy (say it with me: Chev's kil-ba-sa) hidden away on Tilton Street.
 |
| Not Czerw's, but you get the idea. |
The three brothers Czerw and their mother run the homemade Polish food business, which their grandfather founded 65 years ago. The Czerw's Web site proudly states that their kielbasy is made with tender pork butts and smoked in old-fashioned brick oven smokehouses using only seasoned, natural fruit woods. In addition to their mainstay sausages, Czerw's makes pierogies with stuffings both traditional (potato, cheese, sauerkraut, onions) and nouveau (Buffalo chicken, pepperoni and cheese, Philly cheesesteak).
Venture beyond pierogies: take home a package of Mom Czerw's Golabki (try saying ga-WUMP-ki), beef- and rice-stuffed cabbage in a thin and tangy tomato sauce; or the Polish Slim Jim, hot Kabanosa. Bring a bottle of water for that thing. The bounty of Mom Czerw and sons is only available for purchase Tuesday through Saturday; they open at 7 a.m. on Saturday and sell out fast. Don't lag in bed or you will go home disappointed.
While those fool butchers sit in jail wondering how it all went wrong, cruise up I-95 toward Czerw's for revelatory home cooking — a sweet, smoky reward for living life on the straight and narrow.
Czerw's Kielbasy, 3370 Tilton St., 215-423-1707, kielbasyboys.com
- barstool scientist
- Booze
- Brew Revue
- Chef Salad
- Closings
- Coffee
- Contests
- Dealage
- Dirty Dishes
- Don't Front
- Eat This Immediately
- Field Trip
- Food and Art
- Food and Holidays
- Food and Movies
- Food and Music
- Food and Politics
- Food and Sports
- Food and Web
- Food Blogs
- Food Books
- Food Events
- Food News
- Food TV
- Gifted
- Happy Hour Hopper
- How-To
- In Print
- Interview
- Meal Ticket
- Menu Time
- Not So Quickfire
- Notes from the Weekend
- On Wheels
- Openings
- Patio Drinking
- Philly Beer Week 2010
- Photos
- Private Chef POV
- Product Placement
- Recipes
- Snack Time
- Stiff Drank
- SUPPER
- Tea
- Testing
- Ticket Stubs
- Top Chef
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Video
- Weekly Candy
- Weird Regional Foods
- We're Here to Help
- Where'd We Eat?
- Drew Lazor's Ill-Advised Rant Factory
- Pregame
- Ill-Advised Ranting
- The Week Without Meat
- Philly Beer Week 2009
- Real Big
- Where'd I Eat Last Night?
- Top Chef Masters
- The Good Word
- Next Iron Chef
- Arterial Terrorism
- Food and Radio
