Top 10 Trout Streams in PA (only name brands)

[Traveling Trout Co]

Kettle Crk. and Tribs. (due south)

 

[TimMurphy]

Rush or Ryan Twp?

I loved that festival and met a lot of folks who remained friends my entire life. Including myself I also know two other long time married couple who met at Barnesville.

I also met a guy who lived up the road in Hometown and we played music on the stage at the big beer "halle" between legitimate acts.

I have a TON of memorabilia from the festival all over my house.

Dear Bamboozle,

When my Pop and Nana McMurtrie were courting back in the day they used to enjoy going to Barnesville by foot or by hitch-hiking. They never owned a car.

I still enjoy the occasional big band hit or two, courtesy of my Nana's admiration of the Dorsey's.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

 

[Tigereye]

Rush or Ryan Twp?

I loved that festival and met a lot of folks who remained friends my entire life. Including myself I also know two other long time married couple who met at Barnesville.

I also met a guy who lived up the road in Hometown and we played music on the stage at the big beer "halle" between legitimate acts.

I have a TON of memorabilia from the festival all over my house.

Rush twp. Not far from Marion HS

 

[nd1001]

I just got a cheese steak from there last week. Wow, that was really good. And it was absolutely 2 cheese steaks. I was absurdly full after eating only half of it for lunch. You local? I'm up the road in central Bucks

I’m in Roxborough. About 25 mins from Ambler but that sandwich is worth the drive. Had to get one today, after this thread. Ha.

 

[moodyblues]

Ever hear of souse or head cheese. Recall seeing it at local butcher shop back in late 60s early 70s. Haven't seen it since. Looked pretty nasty. Never tried it. I'm sure the demand is pretty low.

Besides they need raw materials for scrapple ie stuff not good enough for hot dogs

I absolutely love good souse, but it's hard to find. Mahaffeys used to be my favorite, but I believe they went out of business. Now I get it at the Fairgrounds Farmers Market. John F. Martins in Womelsdorf makes some that's pretty good.

 

[moodyblues]

It's ironic, just a couple weeks ago I was at the deli counter in the local Giant store and a guy came in and asked if they had souse? I knew what it was, but I also knew the person behind the counter wouldn't. In fact, he looked at the customer like he had six heads. lol

The worker asked what it was, and after being enlightened, said they don't carry it. There is almost no demand for it, and understandably so. It's pretty gross, and I wouldn't eat that stuff if they gave it away.

IMO, no self-respecting PA Dutchman should ever turn down good scrapple or souse.

 

[wildtrout2]

IMO, no self-respecting PA Dutchman should ever turn down good scrapple...

I couldn't agree more.

 

[wildtrout2]

I’m in Roxborough.

Dalessandro's isn't very far then. Just saying. 😉

 

[mikephl]

Dalessandro's isn't very far then. Just saying. 😉

And the Pierogie Kitchen across Henry.

 

[Bamboozle]

I absolutely love good souse, but it's hard to find. Mahaffeys used to be my favorite, but I believe they went out of business. Now I get it at the Fairgrounds Farmers Market. John F. Martins in Womelsdorf makes some that's pretty good.

Depending or where you are Dietrich's Meats in Krumsville and their stand at the Renninger's in Kutztown both have souse, as well and I THINK Burkholder's farm stand in Maxatawny sells the John F. Martin stuff.

If you ever get to Honesdale, the Alpine Wurst House also sells souse and some of the best bratwurst, knockwurst, bauernwurst, krainerwurst and weisswurst you'll find outside of Germany.

 

[wildtrout2]

Love me some grits and eggs. A breakfast delight.

 

[5footfenwick]

Love me some grits and eggs. A breakfast delight.

I also like my pancakes like this! Butter the cakes, three dippy 😉 eggs on top. A little sausage and bacon. Cut it all up. Mix it all up. Add a little syrup…. Don’t have to worry about being hungry all day fishing!

 

[Bamboozle]

I ate it before I had a chance to take a photo, but I just had bagels & lox!!

If you don't have a real deal bagel bakery anywhere close; IF you have a Wegman's nearby and IF that Wegman's has a "boiler" to boil the bagels before baking (NOT all store have one), try their bagels.

The in-house boiled/baked Wegman's bagels are smaller and have the denseness, chew, texture and flavor of the real deal I ate my share of when I lived in NYC. They aren't these huge puffy abominations out there sold as NY style bagels.

FWIW - The Allentown Wegman's is very close to the eruv in the west end of Allentown. Because of that proximity, I think that Wegman's makes a really good bagel.

 

[bringthepain]

I’m in Roxborough. About 25 mins from Ambler but that sandwich is worth the drive. Had to get one today, after this thread. Ha.

That was my first experience last week, one of the best steaks i have ever had

 

[FarmerDave]

Dear Tigereye,

I actually tried souse and found it to be very good. It's like a combination of pickled pigs' feet and the greasy Spam jelly, both of which I absolutely adore. 😉

I'll admit that it did give me a wee bit o' the wind though, and led to a request to leave the bar in that big limestone Hotel in Bellefonte PA that burned down about 10 or so years ago.

Maybe my residual gas fueled the fire?

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

Years back, my wife said she used to love souse from her local butcher shop. One day, I found some so I bought it and took it home. Discussing looking. Wife ate some, but she said it didn't taste the same. I tried it too, and I admit it was better than it looked.
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Dad used to love pickled pigs feet when I was a kid. I never had the nerve to try that.

I wish I could find scrapple around here. The closest thing I could find was liver mush or maybe it was called liver pudding. It tasted OK, but the texture was off pudding putting.

 

[DomR]

Dear Bamboozle,

That reminds me of when I was a kid in Saint Clair PA. Every refrigerator regardless of the actual brand was called a Frigidaire. 😉

When my aunt and Uncle who were raised in Schuylkill County moved to Sunbury the Hoover was used to redd up the house before compney came over. The phonetic misspellings are for ackracy. 😉

I miss hearing the older folks talk, my mom and dad and my aunt Judy are the only old coal region people left anymore from my immediate family.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

My maternal grandmother was from Nantikoke, her and her sisters spoke that dictionary to a T. They’re all gone now, boy I miss going there and hearing them.

 

[TimMurphy]

Years back, my wife said she used to love souse from her local butcher shop. One day, I found some so I bought it and took it home. Discussing looking. Wife ate some, but she said it didn't taste the same. I tried it too, and I admit it was better than it looked.
:
Dad used to love pickled pigs feet when I was a kid. I never had the nerve to try that.

I wish I could find scrapple around here. The closest thing I could find was liver mush or maybe it was called liver pudding. It tasted OK, but the texture was off pudding putting.

Dear Farmer Dave,

When I was stationed in the Florida Panhandle in the USAF I worked second shift. Every day when it wasn't pouring rain I went fishing in the morning. Breakfast consisted of a pickled pig's foot from one of those giant jars, think a big deli Kosher pickle jar, and a cup of coffee from the gas station closest to the Tom's Bayou Bridge.

It cost all of 75 cents, but it was easily worth double that. I really think the pickled pig's foot scent helped my fishing because the scent was all over the lures I used. I lived in the barracks on base, and I often brought home a couple of small, speckled trout for a real breakfast. I got pretty good at microwaving fish with some butter, pepper, paprika, and garlic salt. Cooking facilities were non-existent in the barracks, so creativity ruled!

Yeah, the TV lounge where the microwave was kind of smelled like fish, but that beat the smell of a microwaved omelet by a wide margin. 😉 That smelled like what got me kicked out the bar in Bellefonte!

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

 

[moodyblues]

Depending or where you are Dietrich's Meats in Krumsville and their stand at the Renninger's in Kutztown both have souse, as well and I THINK Burkholder's farm stand in Maxatawny sells the John F. Martin stuff.

If you ever get to Honesdale, the Alpine Wurst House also sells souse and some of the best bratwurst, knockwurst, bauernwurst, krainerwurst and weisswurst you'll find outside of Germany.

Duly noted.

 

[Bamboozle]

I realize it's not the same thing as pickled pig's feet, but any fans of boiled or roasted pig's knuckle, known as Eisbein or Schweinshaxe in Germany?

I'm nuts about it and fell in love with a boiled Eisbein version I used get with potato dumpling & red cabbage at a long gone fantastic little German restaurant * in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. 👍

* (This restaurant also made killer schnitzel on Fridays and because it was so small, there would be a line of people waiting to be seated going down the block). ​

The best Schweinshaxe I ever had was at a restaurant in Munich called Haxnbauer. Their knuckles are HUGE, you get to pick out your own and they are roasted to perfection.

A notable local option is the Eisbein & Schweinshaxe dinner held annually on the 2nd or 3rd Saturday in January at the Reading Liederkranz.

 

[tomgamber]

You lost me at olive loaf. then you brought up head cheese. A true delicacy. Like other Terrines, head cheese, when made correctly is amazing.