Ultrasonic French Fries

[Clipper]

My mom and dad had Rich Plan for quite a while when I was a kid and when we lived in Arizona there was an outfit called McKillip's food plan that was just like Rich Plan. By the time I grew up and was in the market for groceries, the price was not much of a savings over shopping at the market, and we already had a freezer that I bought at an auction so financing the freezer was not a necessity for us.

We used to buy a quarter of beef at a time, and always bought a hog and had sausage made with some of it, plus all the roasts and chops. Had the bacon and hams smoked and stored some of it in a freezer locker at George's in Oriskany Falls before we bought the freezer.

Did anyone else use a freezer locker? There used to be a locker in Poland also. When you ran low on meat at the house, you went to the locker with a laundry basket or box and brought home enough of the meat you had stored there to last a couple weeks or so.

With all the hunting and fishing I did when I was younger, we always had the home freezer full of venison and fish, as well as veggies and other stuff. The bulk of the beef and pork had to go in a rented freezer locker.

[virgilgal]

Many years ago I took a "job" making cold calls to book appts. to sell something like the Rich Plan. I would go sit in these people's basement and call people listed under new births or just start calling numbers from the phone book. It was DREADFUL! I heard more tales of woe on the phone than in my human services work. Made me want to start bringing food to strangers homes! I think I worked for a week and booked one appt. I think I made $20.00 for about 30 hours of work...
Clipper; I have never heard of freezer lockers. There has been a lot of discussion in Ithaca in recent years about setting something like that up along with a community kitchen where people could can or freeze large quantities of fresh food. I think everyone there thought it was a novel idea. I never heard anyone say they had heard of it before.
We got a freezer last year on Craigslist and keep it outdoors as there's no room inside our little house. It's nice 'cuz we can just unplug it when we are in a cold spell.

[dgriffin]

Our last freezer locker place closed down only a few years ago here in Saugerties. It ran for years and was used by hunters and small farmers, when there were any of the latter. Lockers were a great service to anyone who had lots of meat and nowhere to preserve it.

When we were a younger family, we bought a side of beef each year, but had our own freezer. There was a place in Kingston that would sell you a side, cut it up and keep it for you. You went in and asked for pieces every couple of weeks until it was gone.

[Clipper]

There was a guy at the Poland locker back in the fifties that had contracted trichinosis from sampling the raw sausage for seasoning while he was making it. He was crippled up and walked with Canadian crutches. I guess trichinosis has been eradicated in late years and is not such a concern any more. Now we only have little petty stuff to sweat, like deadly strains of E-coli and MAD COW DISEASE, LOL