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Readers offer their wish lists
Regular readers of this column know we tend to accumulate quite a backlog of requests, so let’s start the new year out right (and a happy one to all, by the way) by clearing a whole bunch. The following readers are looking for:
Joyce O’Meara: pickling salt;
Kirk Williams: Horlich’s Malt in the vanilla powder form;
Kathy Smith: veal bratwurst;
Doris Williams: a local source for TOC, or Trenton Oyster Crackers;
Jeanne Fermon: Knorr pork bouillon;
Mike Ryan: Vlasic Mild Cherry Peppers, which he used to get at Smith’s;
Connie Parsells: JMH Premium Products Asian Chicken Powder with no MSG;
Ken Jarvis: mulberry wine;
Marvin Feinburg: Claeys old-fashioned hard candies;
Teresa Sams: Kangaroo Sea Salt Pita Chips, which she used to get at Wal-Mart;
Bill Baker: chow chow cabbage relish;
Larry Millonzi: irradiated meat, for making steak tartare;
Shirley Greene: Nyafat;
Phil McDaniel: Elsenham orange marmalade or other jam or jelly;
Eleanor Matteson: Country Pasta, which she used to get at Sam’s Club;
Sandra Geraci: Vegas Chips;
Shirl Meade: Mettwurst sausages;
Tonya Tafuri: Putney Pasta frozen meals, particularly chicken picatta and shrimp scampi;
Jean Barrie: Colavita Marinara Sauce;
B. Green: Sacramento Tomato Juice, formerly available at Long’s Drug;
Pam Rothermund: soy sauce with lemon or lime;
Robert Parker: frozen chili dogs wrapped in corn tortillas, which he used to get at Wal-Mart Supercenter;
Alex Silver: Romany Cremes from South Africa and Tim Tams from Australia;
Mary Jo Sugden: garlic cheese, and shrimp soup, either in a can or package;
Anna Schaffer: a local source for Johnny’s Great Caesar Garlic Spread and Dressing;
Earl Hoy: a local store that carries Portuguese sausage;
Vince Cantore: a buffet that serves baked clams;
Rich Towers: Campbell’s Beefy Mushroom Soup;
Melissa Cirillo: Celentano frozen pizza, Sabrett hot dogs, Entemann’s filled chocolate chip crumb cake and Social Teas cookies;
Margaret Hanson: child-friendly restaurants with menu items that are wheat free, gluten free and dairy free, and a place with dairy-free frozen desserts;
Glenn Kulich: Bob Evans Italian Sausage and Jim Beam steak sauce;
Toni Kouba: puffed-rice cereal;
And Rick Elmore: whole buttermilk, because “who in their right mind uses low-fat buttermilk for Granny’s Southern biscuits?”
Readers?
Submit information to Heidi Knapp Rinella, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125-0070. You also can send faxes to 383-4676 or e-mail her at hrinella@reviewjournal.com. Include your first and last names and, if e-mailing, put “Taste of the Town” in the subject line. Because of the volume of mail received, we can’t respond to each request.