Good Ham Salad from Meijer!

Today i tried the Meijer brand ham salad.Really good imo! The best i've had recently. It comes in a little square plastic container.Also their slaw is great too! Finely chopped like KFC but creamier. They have many of these pre-packaged items,and what i've tried i like. Also picked up the "Amish" potato salad.They have "Amish" baked beans too. I thought Meijer was German?,not Pennsylvanian Dutch! I was pleasantly surprised to say the least.

Actually Pennsylvania Dutch would imply German, Meijer is actually Dutch-Dutch (from the Netherlands via West Michigan). Don't know why the "Amish" name is applied to so many of the food items, but if you have tried real Dutch food you can probably understand why they don't want to advertise that part.

figmolly wrote:Actually Pennsylvania Dutch would imply German, Meijer is actually Dutch-Dutch (from the Netherlands via West Michigan). Don't know why the "Amish" name is applied to so many of the food items, but if you have tried real Dutch food you can probably understand why they don't want to advertise that part.

Without examining the product, I would say that a good portion of the prepackaged salads from where Meijer's does its sourcing - Michigan and Ohio is produced by Yoder's located in Delphos, OH.

http://www.ikdist.com/yoders/mainpage.htm

Hi,

Is this the ham salad that is not made with ham, but bologna instead? My Mom loves and buys it whenever the opportunity arrises.

The general recipe is finely chopped up bologna, mayo to bind it together and some chopped sweet pickle. While we know the constituent components, I have never made it.

Regards,

It's made in Grand Rapids MI.It contains Ham,Dressing,Celery,Relish,Onion,and Pimento as the main ingredients-no bologna.They also have "Sandwich Spread" which is probably what your Mom likes.
Sorry to make a fuss about this but i've been known to drive from ArlHts to Elburn just to get ham salad from Ream's.

Actually it's carried by Meijer Distribution,Grand Rapids.
It could very well be made by Yoder's- "looks the same",but the carton doesn't say.

grant wrote: Sorry to make a fuss about this but i've been known to drive from ArlHts to Elburn just to get ham salad from Ream's.

No apology needed. We're here for recommendations and discoveries! And there is real pleasure in discovering something that is to one's taste. This post would make me more likely to actually stop at a Meijer store, as I rather like good ham salad.

Thanks.

Cynthia wrote:This post would make me more likely to actually stop at a Meijer store, as I rather like good ham salad.

While you're there, be sure to check out the house brand black-pepper potato chips, and the international aisle.

As an ex-Michigander, I was thrilled when Meijer finally opened here. Where else can you buy cat food, Branston pickle, dry ice and auto parts at 2 in the morning?

The downsides to Meijer are that the produce always has a kind of picked-over look to it; grocery selections tend to be somewhat downmarket; and the size of the store -- with all the extra nongrocery departments -- means that I can never get out of there in under two hours. (Yes, if I were a disciplined shopper, I could go and get the things on my list and leave, but I'm not.)

I love this site. A few summers ago, I came to appreciate Yoder's various salads while spending some time in West Virginia and Virginia. Now I see I can get some around here. Meijer's scares the hell out of me, a cavernous uber-WalMart coming from the grocery direction instead of the dry goods direction and always open, flourescent lights buzzing through the night. I rented a Rug Doctor there at 1:00 am on a Sunday one time and thought it was a hallucination. But if they have good pimento spread, I'll risk a flashback episode.

Actually, I like Meijer but I almost NEVER shop there. The size of the store realy discourages me even more than other Supercenters.

My wife will stock up when they have their frequent 3/$1 or 4/$1 can sales. They also have one of the better supermarket fish/seafood selections. And the seafood counter at the Lake in the Hills cannot tell the difference between blue crabs and dungenous crabs and prices that latter for $1.99 EA.

oh yeah... MEIJER!!!

I, too am from Michigan, specifically Grand Rapids itself. I remember when the store was called "Meijer's Thrifty Acres" and it's logo featured a little dutch boy. It would be an all-afternoon shopping trip with Mom, featuring ice cream, animal crackers, haircuts from the salon, and buying fabric. When I was a teenager, the thing to do at 2am was to get drunk and wander around Meijers with my other punk-rock friends, the trippy flourescents making everything more fun for loitering in the toy department.

I would prefer them to Walmart, because of my hometown/midwest bias, but I guess they are all in the suburbs still? I just did a search and only found one in "Rolling Meadows"...

Also, I live in west town, and we go to the Dominicks on Clybourn cause they let you take carts out in the lot (the novelty of it all, after patronizing the Jewel at Div/Milw/Ashland) and we have a kid now. THey also have cart-cars with TV's for the kids! As much as I hated to see Edmar go (for my own political/anti-gentrifier reasons) it will be nice to have a Dom's at Damen and Chicago. At least till we actuallly try and buy a condo and realize we can only get a 1 bedroom, that is...

I remember Meijer's Thrifty Acres in Michigan and their near disasterous "Meijer's Square" concept in Cincinnati - a discount store without food that nearly sent the whole chain under.

Meijer's has three stores along Randall Rd between St. Charles and Lake in the Hills. They also have a store in McHenry, IL.

jlawrence01 wrote:They also have one of the better supermarket fish/seafood selections.

I would never have known this. I don't think I've ever been to the store at a time when it's open.

One other Meijer advantage: They have a guarantee that they'll always have rotisserie chicken at peak after-work dinner hours, which means they cook a lot of them. In late evening, they mark any left way down, often to about $2.50 per chicken.

You can't buy and cook a raw chicken for that price.

The chickens, amazingly, do not dry out sitting under the heat lamp all those hours and reheat well. They make excellent chicken salad and the cat likes them, too.

They're open 24/7 everyday.You must have gone on Christmas.

grant wrote:They're open 24/7 everyday.You must have gone on Christmas.

The store is open. Not the seafood counter. Or the deli. Or the frozen Coke machine.

and the lobsters were sleeping.

jlawrence01 wrote:their near disasterous "Meijer's Square" concept in Cincinnati - a discount store without food that nearly sent the whole chain under.

I remeber that - wasn't there one near XU where I grew up? Interestingly enough, that whole area has undergone a renaissance, and now contains a Target, a Wal-Mart, and numerous other stores of that ilk. Funny.

If my feeble memory is correct, there was one either in Norwood or Pleasant Ridge. They came into the market after Cook United filed for Chapter XI protection.

The land in Norwood became available with the closure of GM's Fisher Body Division in the 80s.

The area between Norwood and Hyde Park along Edwards Rd. (the old Heekin Can Co.) has been redeveloped into more upscale retailing.

Yup, that's the one - if you continue down Edwards, the sort of fill-in-the-blank-mart retail abounds, and the Norwood area is now in all kinds of legal turmoil because housing is being taken over through eminent domain to make room for the strip malls.

So Mejer might have made it if they'd waited ten years or so. At any rate, I'd love to have one closer to Evanston, sometimes it's easier to go to a megamultiplex.

Just went to Meijer and picked up some stuff.The Horseradish i bought was made by Yoder's so i'll assume they make their salads too. I did get the "Amish" baked beans this time and...ham salad,coleslaw,and tuna salad.