Imported Foods In Detroit Area-Ethnic Markets

[terryh]

The German store you are talking about may have been Old Country Imports located on Gratiot across from the former Montgomery Wards a block north of 7 Mile. They closed in the later 80s when owner Lucy Evans died.

The last metro area German only import store [[Buchholz Imports on Old 13 Mile in Warren) closed last summer. However many German products can be found in Nino Salvaggio's, and Meijer's. In fact Meijer's has a special aisle just for imported items [[at least they do at their Roseville store).

And each of the 3 Polish Market locations sells many German items, since many German companies [[Bahlsen, Dr. Oetker) sell the same items with either German or Polish printing on the packaging.

Due to the borders between Germany and Poland changing so often over the last 500 years, about 1/2 of all their food specialties are common to both countries.

There was a German Deli on MapleRd. in Troy? some years back. a tall blonde German frauline worked the counter.. Holiday market in Royal Oak also has a German variety of goods Gistok.