  Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 86 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 69.214.180.51 |
I rode down Gratiot last week and the Alexander and Hornung Sausage was still open. Now this week, there's a for sale sign up. COuld someone tell me what happened? | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 1563 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.57 |
Didn't see anything on their website: http://www.alexander-hornung.c om/home.html Contact info: http://www.alexander-hornung.c om/contactus.html Company history: http://www.alexander-hornung.c om/history.html | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 1358 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
That's a tough business to be in. I vividly remember the large number of small- to medium-sized meat packers and sausage makers in Wisconsin going under during the 1970s and 1980s. And they were situated close to the supply of cattle and hogs. Even the private, family-owned and Madison-HQed giant--Oscar Mayer--sold out to Phillip Morris back then and was put into General Foods and later Kraft--all subsidiaries of the Phillip Morris Tobacco Company. It's not a business where small operators can turn a profit easily. | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 87 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 69.214.180.51 |
Take a trip down Gratiot and look at the building. Notice there's a Friedman Real Estate sign on the building and the shipping and receiving garages arent open anymore. | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 2435 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.2.148.60 |
This is good news for cows and pigs everywhere. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 1359 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
"This is good news for cows and pigs everywhere." Not so fast. They'll still be slaughtered and packed--but in a much larger facility. Probably owned by one of those agra-business giants that you despise. Sometimes you get what you didn't plan on... | ||
Taj920 Member Username: Taj920 Post Number: 132 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 68.42.252.205 |
I heard Alexander Hornung bought Butcher Boy and moved to its St. Clair Shores facility. | ||
Bongman Member Username: Bongman Post Number: 1245 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 198.111.56.128 |
LOl....One of my first jobs, and not an easy place to work. I was 18, and packing hotdogs in boxes of 50 in a room that was 36 degrees for hours. My hands hurt like hell, and I'd have to run them under warm water for 10 minutes at the end of the day just to feel my fingertips. It took me 10 years to enjoy eating a hotdog again, and theirs were quality. The ladies were all German immigrants that tied the sausage. Worked with them for months and never understood a word they said. One of those jobs that let a kid know what they don't want to do in life. The only redeeming thing about working there is you could pretty much eat anything you wanted within reason. Still like their Knockwurst. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 409 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
Reminds me off the old joke about the guy getting fired from the meat packing plant for sticking his finger in the sausage stuffer.  | ||
Jtw Member Username: Jtw Post Number: 97 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 12.159.32.66 |
NOOOO! i'm hopelessly addicted to those little salami/sausages that you buy at the cashier station for 65 cents at party stores around town.... i really hope they're not out of business. | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 24 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 63.77.247.130 |
I know some people who work at Butcher Boy in St. Clair Shores. Alexander Hornung bought that business and seems to be doing pretty well. That's too bad for that area of Detroit though. I used to go to Gibb's Wine Store over there with my dad when I was a kid. I hope Alexander Hornung's old building doesn't get wrecked. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2761 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.90.60 |
There's a Gibb's Wine Store in Pointe Plaza at 7 Mile (Moross) & Mack Ave., which is still in Detroit. Are they one and the same? As a kid growing in the 60's I remember my dad taking my brother and I to A & H on Saturday mornings. We always got a complimentary Wiener... Dad would buy Head Cheese and Blood Sausuage for him and mom (she still eats that crap!)... and the kids would get Ham, cuz we wouldn't eat the exotic stuff. | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 25 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 63.77.247.130 |
Yes, both of those Gibb's Wine Stores are owned by the same guy. I still eat that crap too! I wonder why my cholesterol is out of control? | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 26 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 63.77.247.130 |
Taj920, didn't see your earlier post. Ed Golick, I heard that one before. lol! | ||
Zephyrprocess Member Username: Zephyrprocess Post Number: 8 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 146.9.16.41 |
The former 313 number for Alexander Hornung is disconnected, and the automatic message directs you to (586) 771-9880, which is the number for Butcher Boy Meats. |
