re: #225 Dr Lizardo

When I lived in Kreuzberg, Berlin, there was a Turkish grocery store with a halal butcher - good cuts of meat and all quite fresh. But I never had a chicken head and feet, and I did a lot of shopping there for the Wohngemeinschaft. It was about one block away, so of course, very convenient.

These guys were Egyptian. None of the other halal butchers I’ve been to have ever given me the head & feet either. I guess I was just lucky. //

I’ve gotta tell ya though, you know what’s fun? Going to ginormous Chinese grocery stores in Queens and trying to figure out what some of the stuff is. Grocery stores in heavily Mexican neighborhoods back in Texas were good for things like cow, pig, and goat heads, chicken feet, tripe, intestines, etc.

There’s a grocery store a few blocks from my house that caters mostly to Central & South Americans as well as some Haitians & Jamaicans. The meat & deli section can get pretty scary. The canned goods & dried stuff are fascinating, and the cheese aisle is impressive.