Adventure

So the other day Kasey took me to J N & Z meats on Commercial Drive. She had been talking about this meat shop that smokes all their own meat, smells amazing, is family run, and has amazing prices. Well, I was making soup with my sister that evening, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to buy some high quality, delicious meat products, and let me tell you...MY LIFE IS FOREVER CHANGED.

First of all, the minute you walk in your nostril are accosted with the smell of smokey meat. The shopped smelled amazing. Like a smokehouse. Sweet, and smokey, and full of juicy meat flavour. As we were making our purchases, people continually kept popping their heads into the shop, to get a whiff of the beauty that is smoked meat. But its not only the smell that gets you drooling. All four walls are covered with hanging meat of all different shapes and sizes. Links, racks, haunches (?) It truly is a sight to see. I ended up buying WAY too much sausage. Garlic sausage, Polish sausage, Spicy pepperoni, a ham hock for making pea soup! Wow. It was meat overload. The lady behind the counter weighed out my meat and I was shocked by the unbelievably low price tag. $12 for all that meat?! How could that be true? She told me that it was her family's business and that her father started it 17 years ago when she was a little girl who wanted to eat hot dogs like all her friends. Her old school Polish father (who knew what was in hot dogs) refused to let her eat them, but told her he would make her a replacement. Well as it turns out it was cheaper to buy a meat shop than a sausage stuffer, and the rest, as they say, is history. J N and Z Meats sell high quality sausage and other smoke house products for low prices. Spreading the love of meat, one customer at a time.

Honestly, if you live in Vancouver, go to this shop. It was amazing and delicious.

Oh yah, apparently in February she starts making beef jerky. I cant wait!