Do your local deli people get annoyed when you ask for shaved meats?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any leads on where to get some P&P Loaf? No one seems to carry it around here....

HELP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any leads on where to get some P&P Loaf? No one seems to carry it around here....

HELP.

What do you plan to do with P&P loaf in 2023? Does someone still eat that?

I worked in a grocery store deli in central PA in the early 1990s and we had ALL of the nasty "loaf" things - maybe they still do. I would routinely come home with pimientos, olive, and bits of cheese in my bra and in my hair. I believe I got 25 or 30 cents above minimum wage, so maybe $4.50.

Customers who wanted thinly sliced liverwurst were the absolute worst. It is basically spreadable goo.

[Anonymous]

I prefer my cold cuts shaved also. I don’t get why there isn’t a more precise machine to cut the meats so you could get the exact way wvery time (say you set the cut to a number, with zero being shaved and 5 being thick cut, along those lines).

[Anonymous]

What is the verdict on very thin slicing. I prefer that one. Is it as bad as shaved???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shaved? One guy at our deli will not even slice it thin. No matter what you say, he slices super thick. I have stopped buying deli meat.

Why not use your words? Why let him get away with NOT doing his job. Have him slice a piece and show it to you then say THINNER. Keep doing that until he does his job he's PAID for.

Np. Oh, I’ve done this. Let’s just say everyone hated me.. deli workers and fellows customers alike.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the verdict on very thin slicing. I prefer that one. Is it as bad as shaved???

They’ll look at you as if you have 5 heads

[Anonymous]

Ok not in DC or where ever original post from. Our local Hannaford deli is awesome. They say the machine does it for them. Then we have Beans a local country store that charges a dollar extra for shaved cuts! It's already overpriced. Please charge me more. I just ordered RB super thin and may as well have a steak. If I'm trying to make a point,upstate NY Hannaford deli place to go. Friendly. Samples. They show you what they are slicing from the start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok not in DC or where ever original post from. Our local Hannaford deli is awesome. They say the machine does it for them. Then we have Beans a local country store that charges a dollar extra for shaved cuts! It's already overpriced. Please charge me more. I just ordered RB super thin and may as well have a steak. If I'm trying to make a point,upstate NY Hannaford deli place to go. Friendly. Samples. They show you what they are slicing from the start.

Thanks for chiming in 10 days late with your irrelevant post to a DC Forum. Now feel free to STFU

[Anonymous]

I always end up with gross thick sliced turkey. I’ll ask for shaved from now on.

[Anonymous]

Don’t work in a deli if u don’t like shaving meat!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t work in a deli if u don’t like shaving meat!!!!

Normally, I would think it was crazy that someone revived this thread just to say that, but I share your passion for shaved deli meat and I concur.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting. I grew up in Pittsburgh where "chipped ham" is a thing (I didn't like regular sliced deli ham until I had been in this area for a few years and it grew on me). There, most delis would shave a lot of ham to begin with and have a bowl in the refrigerater cooler of chipped ham. They would take it and weigh it and then keep going.

In Pittsburgh, the slicers have an automated arm, the deli folk would put the ham on the slicer, turn it to the thinnest setting that would work (they all knew the setting) and then turn on the automatic slicer. If the bowl was getting low, they would turn the machine on, then take a couple of orders and just keep watch on the slicer. When the pile was big they would toss into the bowl.

It never occurred to me that delis elsewhere did not have the automatic slicing arm. That would certainly save the poor deli techs arm if they got a request for shaved meats.

YES! I opened this thread just to talk about chipped ham. So good.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Shave my lunch meat. Ur job is to slice meat. If that job is 2 hard find another. I deliver pizza and if they tip me 12c I say Ty have a nice day just like a $10 tip. It's ur job STFU OR QUIT

[Anonymous]

I honestly don’t understand the allure of shaved lunch meats. I’m not critical of it, it just doesn’t seem any better to me than non-shaved.

[Anonymous]

Yes, the deli workers seem to have a bad attitude when I ask for meat shaved or chipped.