  Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 302 Registered: 02-2008 |
I heard awhile ago that they might start making it again, anyone know anything about this? I really miss this stuff. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 526 Registered: 02-2005 |
the Cornillies sold Red Pelcan to Beatrice Foods years ago. A good friend of mine worked there for 25 years | ||
Servite76 Member Username: Servite76 Post Number: 29 Registered: 02-2008 |
It's funny how we miss certain food items. A couple months back I was wondering what happened to Mister Mustard. My dad would buy it when I was a kid. It was great on salami sandwiches. I looked everywhere for it. I asked around at some stores and they told me they never heard of it. I did find it at Farms Fresh Market on Fischer Rd in Grosse Pointe. | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 305 Registered: 02-2008 |
I used to get Mister Mustard at Merchants Wine in Dearborn, but I haven't seen it there lately. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 35 Registered: 03-2008 |
Red Pelican was the only mustard in our house when I was a kid. My Mom always called it "Belgian mustard". Why? I don't know. I still can't stand that tasteless yellow stuff. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 528 Registered: 02-2005 |
because the owners were belgian! | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 36 Registered: 03-2008 |
I thought it was because my mother was Belgian. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 529 Registered: 02-2005 |
probably both! Mother knows best! | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 161 Registered: 08-2007 |
I grew up on the westside. All my Dad's relations lived on the eastside, Belgians. He used to floor bowl at one of the eastside bars, Bill & Madeline's, every other week during the season. He'd bring back "Belgian mustard" and chocolate for us when he got home. | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 248 Registered: 08-2007 |
forgot the name of that mustard, used to buy that alot, i also miss Velvet Peanut Butter. | ||
Servite76 Member Username: Servite76 Post Number: 30 Registered: 02-2008 |
This thread is starting to Morph. Dannyv, big Belgian bar on the East Side for feather bowling was and still is The Cadieux Cafe. The first house I bought in 82' was on Eastwood in Harper Woods. Hugh backyard complete with Pidgeon coop(sp?) Big Belgian neighborhood at one time. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 37 Registered: 03-2008 |
There was a Belgian bar on the east side of Harper between 7 Mile & Cadieux that was torn down when the Ford Expressway was built. Might have been the original Green Oaks bar that was moved across the street. It was right near the "Comfort Station". (Anyone remember that?) Outside the bar was a large cylindrical cage sort of affair that folks shot arrows into. Targets were placed in it, then it was hoisted into the air & the shooting started. Going pretty far back in my memory here. Is this turning into a Belgian thread? If so, I guess it's my fault. Sorry for the hijack. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 531 Registered: 02-2005 |
the Guilford Bar, had an indoor archery range in it,the William Tell Archery Club shot,out of that location. Harper and Guilford. the bar is still there. The archery range,closed a few years back | ||
7_and_kelly_kid Member Username: 7_and_kelly_kid Post Number: 128 Registered: 12-2007 |
Eastburn.........your mom wasn't Belgium......she like I was a Buffalo! (Van De Wyngaerde) | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 38 Registered: 03-2008 |
You got that right, 7K. She was born & raised in Deinze in Flanders & always referred to herself as a Buffalo. The funny thing was, I never thought she had an accent. I have some tapes of her & when I listen to them now I'm amazed at the accent I never heard as a kid. | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 165 Registered: 08-2007 |
Does any one know how Belgians came to be called buffaloes? I grew up on the westside. Whenever we went to visit my Dad's relations, Belgians, on the eastside my Mom would say we're going to see the buffaloes. In elementary school one day, my teacher was asking what ethnic groups were represented in our class. After all the major ethnic groups were covered, I volunteered that I was part buffalo. The class got a good laugh out of it. Someone said, yeah, and they were part dog and part squirrel. I couldn't answer for them but I thought a buffalo was a grand animal and I was proud to be, at least, part buffalo. My Mom set me straight when I got home from school that day. Just goes to show how kids take things so literally. | ||
Oladub Member Username: Oladub Post Number: 231 Registered: 08-2006 |
My Mothers side was Flemish. Belgian mustard was what we called it too. At Sunday dinner, there was always Verdonct's bread, sliced ham, blood sausage, hooftdvlaake from Adolph DeLue's butcher shop, Belgian mustard, vegetables, leek soup in winter, and Strohs beer. Pgn, was that the same Cornillie family that owned the coal and fuel oil business? One of their trucks would carry the caged buffalo past Balduck Park on Warren in the annual Belgian parade. Balduck was also the home field of the Soccer Club Belgica. | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 249 Registered: 08-2007 |
i,ve been buying Woebers mustard at the dollar stores when i see it, its made in Ohio,but it still taste good. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 533 Registered: 02-2005 |
Oladub- Yes, one brother ran the coal and fuel business, the other ran the mustard business on St.Jean | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 39 Registered: 03-2008 |
Dannyv - I've always heard that the early immigrants from Belgium first settled in Buffalo, NY before moving on to Detroit (which has/had the largest population of Belgians in the US). Hence the name "Buffalo". Continuing on the Belgian hijack, how about the wonderful pork sausage & blood sausage from Blancke (sp?)& Enoch on Harper? I'd kill for some of that this Sunday morning. Not until after Mass, though. | ||
Oladub Member Username: Oladub Post Number: 232 Registered: 08-2006 |
Thanks Pgn. Eastburn, Embo's? I once asked about Red Pelican on a visit to the Mt. Horeb Mustard Museum. The employee I spoke with was aware of it and said it was a Dijon mustard. The Mustard Museum sells over 500 kinds of mustard but Red Pelican is not on its list. http://www.mustardmuseum.com/ Go to link listing mustards for sale. Dijons are listed under American mustards. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 535 Registered: 02-2005 |
i like the hot mustards. the ones that clear your head. sinus! you know what i mean? lke wasabi! | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 41 Registered: 03-2008 |
My Mom shopped at Embo's, too but the meat always came from B & E other than poultry - Vergote's. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 536 Registered: 02-2005 |
how about Hamels meats n E.Warren? they smoked their meats, the hunters sausage and jerky,was the best | ||
Oladub Member Username: Oladub Post Number: 233 Registered: 08-2006 |
Eastburn, Of course the chicken was from Vergote's. Who knows who touched the chicken at the grocery store? Why pay someone else to pull all the feathers? Sawdust floors, cages stacked high with live fowl, "that one", grab by legs, take to back room and walk out of sight, put beheaded birk in drum until it stops flapping, wrap in newspaper, go home, broast, eat. Was that how it was? | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 42 Registered: 03-2008 |
First you had to cut up the bird & hold the pieces over the flame on the gas stove to singe off any feathers that were left. The smell of burning feathers will be with me forever. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 628 Registered: 01-2007 |
Pardon me. Do you have any Grey Poupon? | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 616 Registered: 04-2006 |
quote:They also have it at Srodek's in Hamtramck. | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 255 Registered: 11-2006 |
Back to the mustard! I bought a jar of hot mustard from Dearborn Sausage. It is sold in the same style jar that the old Red Pelican used to come in. I figured they must have bought the recipe because it is a local company as well. It was very good. | ||
Ednaturnblad Member Username: Ednaturnblad Post Number: 32 Registered: 09-2006 |
Norwalk - you're right about the mustard. Dearborn Sausage bought Red Pelican and re-branded the mustards with the Dearborn name. So, yes, we still have a locally made mustard and as far as I know, the recipes are the same as RP. | ||
Slick Member Username: Slick Post Number: 16 Registered: 02-2008 |
The buffalos got their nickname, and I heard this from a Belgian, In the day of the buffalo nickel, the Belgians held on to them so tightly that it left the imprint on the palms of their hands. hence, buffalo's. Though I think the true story is Buffalo NY. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 4466 Registered: 02-2004 |
I loved the old Red Pelican logo. Mustard is mustard. | ||
Oladub Member Username: Oladub Post Number: 235 Registered: 08-2006 |
The Pelican logo has Red Wings on either side of the Pelican. http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st. yimg.com/I/puredetroit_1936_38 92489 | ||
Ongowwah Member Username: Ongowwah Post Number: 94 Registered: 03-2008 |
Red Pelican was served at old Tiger Stadium. Couldn't beat it on a Ball Park frank on opening day! Red Pelican on a sandwich made with Hoffman's brand hard salami is a tough one to beat too! | ||
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus Post Number: 485 Registered: 04-2006 |
Hey all, another buffalo here (DeMayer)was on metchens side. Grandmother. Try Koops Holland Extra Strong mustard available at Krogers. It's just like Red Pelican was. The dearborn may have the same recipe but it's just not the same as RP. Maybe because they don't use the machines that made RP for 80 years. Embos was the best along with Blanckes and Holland American bakery which was at E. Warren and Maryland down the block from VanMaeles bar. | ||
Michmeister Member Username: Michmeister Post Number: 279 Registered: 10-2006 |
Red Pelican will always be synonymous in my heart with Tiger Stadium (sniff). | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 259 Registered: 11-2006 |
Good call on the Hoffmans Salami Ongo! Have you ever had Oldani's salami? It's very good as well | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 326 Registered: 02-2008 |
Norwalk, Is the mustard you bought at Dearborn Sausage branded with the Dearborn name on the label? Was it a glass jar? | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 261 Registered: 11-2006 |
Plastic jar w/plastic lid with the Dearborn blue/orange label.I bought it at Gratiot Central Market | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 327 Registered: 02-2008 |
Thx, just picked some up at Dearborn Sausage, can't wait to try it. |
