Meat Market Tye

J. LeRoy Palumbo Jr. of Palumbo's Meat Market in Du Bois is taking care of a project to market peanut butter hot dogs.

DU BOIS, Pa. - Russell Emel yes does like peanut butter.

Forget plunge for potato chips or ketchup for french fries. Russell requires a dollop of peanut butter of many every thing, down seriously to the ice cream for dessert.

However when it stumbled on indulging the first-grader's cravings for hot dogs garnished with a gob of Skippy, Russell's mom balked.

"it is not my thing, " said Cyndee Emel, 41, with a grimace. "It style of made myself unwell to smear it regarding the hot dogs for him."

Russell persisted. His mama considered online, publishing half-jesting pleas that will ignite a community-wide interior laugh inside Clearfield County city of 8, 000: Could regional meat market operator J. LeRoy Palumbo Jr. appease Russell by creating a peanut butter hot-dog?

Mr. Palumbo, whose culinary experiments in the landmark marketplace their grandfather, Dominic, established in 1927 have triggered such treats as jalapeno-cheese hot puppies and wild boar jerky, used the challenge. He and manufacturing manager Tom Weaver produced a 25-pound experimental batch, even though they dreaded it might be terrible.

As an unmistakable nutty odor wafted from the smokehouse under Palumbo's meat of Du Bois, Mr. Palumbo fired down a reply to your internet site, announcing, "Come get 'em." That group out of stock in hours. Therefore did another.

Three days later, Mr. Palumbo features offered almost 1, 000 pounds for the protein-packed franks and that can scarcely keep them inside the cooler after a "Peanut Butter Hot Dogs" sign rises over their shop.

He's talking with a peanut-butter producer about promoting the culinary creation to a wider market. A number of their neighbors tend to be throwing all over notion of a residential district event dedicated to the dogs.

Along with his muse, Russell, 7, is basking when you look at the glory of classmates declaring him a wizard because they ended the season at Oklahoma Elementary class with a peanut butter puppy luncheon.

"we had been carrying it out for fun, the neighborhood and for a young child, " said Mr. Palumbo, 35, whoever shop walls are covered with purple, green and blue ribbons he's won for his sausages, hot dogs as well as other beef services and products in condition competitions.

"whom understood it could take-off enjoy it features? It is so excellent that a 7-year-old kid made it happen."

Mr. Palumbo said Mrs. Emel posted her preliminary query about peanut butter hot dogs almost a year ago after people started speaking about unusual meals combinations on www.godubois.com.

"It started type of a joke, then again plenty of regulars from the [message board] had been joking around ... about beating each other with peanut butter hot dogs, a myriad of things, " he stated. "I was thinking it was a fairly odd combination myself."

But after Mrs. Emel kidded him again on line, Mr. Palumbo reconsidered. Their staff ended up being making hot puppies anyhow - the marketplace offers about 1, 200 weight weekly to wholesale and retail customers - and he loves to test new tastes.

He and Mr. Weaver, 60, whom previously worked for Iron City Brewing and Nabisco, "played around" May 19, blending beef and pork, herbs, water and peanut butter until they attained a persistence that, to their practiced eyes, looked appropriate.

They won't discuss their particular procedure, mix of ingredients or model of peanut butter. But they said the secret was to obtain the dense, oily peanut butter to mix effortlessly before stuffing and preparing the franks.

"is brutally truthful, I was thinking it will be positively horrid, " Mr. Palumbo stated, laughing. "there was clearly some eye rolling [from Mr. Weaver alongside workers.] It had been a blind experience."

Mr. Weaver got 1st taste, biting into your pet dog right out of the smokehouse and shrugging, "so good." Mr. Palumbo packaged the dogs, $2.99 for eight, launched their particular accessibility on the internet site and figured that could be it.

By Monday early morning, townspeople clamored to get more. On Wednesday, an extra, 50-pound group sold-out in hours. One consumer purchased 15 weight. Chatter concerning the dogs proceeded on godubois.com as well as on the road as people sampled them, shipped all of them to out-of-town family members and debated the merits of chocolate vs. jelly toppings.

"I'll let you know what, I bought them. I enjoyed [them]" stated Patty Klebacha, a clerk in town treasurer's company. "It's just like each day somebody features one thing to say about them. We figured I'd take to them before it goes global."

The area newsprint caught wind for the demand and published a tale. Regional radio and television stations followed. The peanut butter company requested examples. Mr. Palumbo whipped up a radio advertisement where his two daughters discuss "the newest buzz:"

- "Angelina and Brad had their particular infant?"

- "No silly, father's brand new peanut butter hot puppies."

Encouraged because of the popularity of nearby Punxsutawney in promoting its groundhog, some individuals in Du Bois have recommended holding a peanut butter hot-dog event to attract tourists.

Du Bois management Ron Trzyra, whom likes hot puppies but would rather leave out the peanut butter, said no one had submitted a formal suggestion to put on a festival. But peanut butter hot dogs take menus for meals stands at an upcoming charity competition and Community Days next week-end. .

For Russell, he is still enjoying the treat along with his star around city. But while he went to with Mr. Palumbo a week ago, he made his mom and older siblings gag as he wondered aloud just how a peanut butter hamburger would taste.

"It is all already been a lot of enjoyment and now we appreciate exactly what [Mr. Palumbo] did, " Mrs. Emel stated. "we consumed one and they're not bad at all. Now cannot previously ask me to make one the old method once more."