Is there a certain item that you use that you would drive out of your
way to get? If so, what is it and where can it be found?

29 responses total.

    I have discovered Calder bros milk. From what I know, it can be had only
at Buschs and the Beer depot on william. The unique thing about it is, is
that it stays fresh a longer time and somehow tastes richer than the run
of the mill stuff that can be had at Meijer. 
  It is pri  (1.69) for a quart and 1.00 for the bottle deposit
but IMHO it IS worth the price.

Also available at the People's Food Co-ops.  It tastes richer because it is
not homagenized or over pasturized; processes which, in my opinion, take away
most of the flavor of milk.  My grandparents owned a dairy farm and I was
raised on real milk, straight from the cow.  Calder's tastes just about a
close to that as you can get today without owning your own dairy cow.

Wow, Calder's is a Downriver thang, they have a dairy on Southfield  east
of Fort St. Lotsa Ice Cream for cheep price.

I will go out of my way for Tokyo Sushi Iwa, cause it is far superior
to Miki's.

jerusalem gardens, of course:)

Food, & frozen Pepsis.

   Calder's is indeed wonderful.  Their chocolate milk tastes like
Mississippi Mud Pie, I was told, and they were right.  Not for the
faint of artery I'm afraid, but it IS wonderful stuff.  If you liked
that Jim, check out the Food Coops; they have all sorts of really
wonderful non-mainstream things there.

    I've driven 600 miles out of the way for Chimmichangas at a little
place called "El Minuto" in Tuscon, Arizona.  Whenever in that part of
the country, I try to stop by.  On the particular trip I'm thinking of,
I got really weird stares from the two people I was with, but they let
me convince them that 600 miles wasn't *that* far out of the way, and if
they didn't like it, they could figure out something nasty to do to me.
Forunately, El Minuto was in fine shape that day, so lunch and dinner
and a carry out midnight snack kept me from having something done to me.
Thats about as far as I've gone out of my way for something.  Here to
Chicago for lunch, with dinner on the way was something I used to be
able to get friends hornswoggled into on a regular basis.  Sigh.

I would drive out of my way a hundred or so miles for Chinese as
served in Evanston, Wyoming. 
  
Years ago , when there really was a Pizza Bob, I'd have to decide
whether to coome here for a Ruben or go to the Snug on WSU campus area.
  
Piza Bob's was a tad bit better, but geography played a reasonable
part in the decision. Now the Snug's alibi is an atrocity and
nobody in townhere has anythingg resembling a quality Ruben. Oh, well....

   I rememebr him!  He gave me a small pizza, once.

 I did buy some Calder's chocolate and yes, it IS r but oh so
good. I am lobbying Buschs on Green to start carrying the red cap in half
gallon bottles. (those quarts tend to be a pain in the ass). From what
the manager has told me, it should not be too much of a problem.

Rob and i drove to the Moosewood restaurant in Ithaca, New York, for
dinner one Sunday.  It's roughly 10 hours in each direction; longer if
you stop over at Niagra Falls.  The food was worth the trip.

I usually buy a supply of pork roll (east coast delicacy) a couple
of times a year when I'm in Philly, but it's not strictly speaking
out of the way, since I go there to visit family.  I freeze it and
bring it home in a cooler.  Still have some left in my freezer.

On one trip to New Hampshire my family drove about 60 miles out
of our way to revisit a certain pizza joint we had loved several
years earlier.  Got a lovely drive along the Kankamangus highway
for our troubles, and great pizza, too!  (This was about 17 yrs. ago.)

I bring back H & H bagels from New York when i visit.  Freeze 'em and
eat 'em for months.

   Are they appreciably better than say the Bagel Factory?  I'm not much
on New York sources of food, but I was really surprised to find that the
bagels I sampled on my deli traipsing around NYC didn't show me anything
better than the BF.  Was I missing something incredible, the midwesterner
askes?

well, um, uh...
i grew up hearing that H & H makes the best bagels in the world, and
(unlike for pizza), i'm still totally non-objective about it.
bagel factory makes very good bagels.  i've never compared theirs to
H & H bagels side by side.

I always get Calder's if I'm making something with milk in it (like
custard). Then I can eat the cream off the top.

So far, I have been able to find Calders in two places, The Beer Depot and
Busch's. Are there any other places that sell this stuff?

Jim, it has already been pointed out twice that the People's Food Co-op
sells it.

 Too much Calders makes people forgetful.

 oh. sorry about that Glenda. Too much driving, not enough sleep.

I'm not positive, but I wouldn't be surprised if Arbor Farms
sold Calders.

J&J Ice Cream on Allen Road in Allen Park sells Calder's, Jim:)

Based on STeve's recommendation in response #5, I tried El Minuto in Tucson.
It was really good and I would second that recommendation.  (I just happened
to drive by El Minuto and remembered the prior recommendation)

I'm impressed!  I'd *never* remember a restaurant recommendation when
travelling near the restaurant, except maybe for El Azteco in Lansing, and
that only because it's been repeated so many times.

I would, when I could afford it, drive to michigan to get some Saunder's Milk
Chocolate Hot Fudge!  I would buy gobs of it and bring it home and savor it
all year...anyone interested in sending me some?  I'll be happy to pay postage
too!

i don't know if they still do or not, but the blue heron used to carry caldors.
but i don't know if it stuck around in the owner-switch[D.....and they have
the BEST eggnog.....:_

  You want some for mere postage?!? You'll have to do better than that ;)

 And it's Sander's. They're based in Highland Park, and yes they do ship.
Detroit Info will have the address and phone number.

letsee...
when i lived with my folks, they would go out of their
way to drive to pinconning to some cheese shop and buy
extra sharp cheddar and some summer sausage.
i used to like calder milk, i used the whole non-homogonized
as a treat. never tried the chocolate though, wish i had.
i have my mom occasionally ship some koegel vienna hotdogs
and koegel pickled ring bologna to me.

If anyone is stilll interested, Calder Dairy home delivers.  I live in
Dearborn and have been getting Calder Daiury products home delivered all my
life.  Don't know how far west they go, but it sure is a great convvHenience,
and once you've had their milk (and butter, and cottage cheese, and sour
cream, and chocolate and strawberry milk) nothing else will do.  I am a milk
snob, admittedly.  If you can't find it in a store, try calling their outlet
on Southfield in Lincoln Park and ask about delivery.  

In Ann Arbor you can get Calder milk at the People's Food Co-op, and I think
also at Whole Foods and Arbor Farms.  Their chocolate milk is truly amazing
stuff!  Do they make any nonfat milk?

Jack n' the Box, Hardee's and White Castle resturants....oh...and
Rally's/Checkers spicy french fries.

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