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Jungle Jim’s Not Slowing Down

The Editor — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:47:00 +0000

It only took me 8 months to link to this, but Alex narrates his visit to Jungle Jim’s in Fairfield with lots of colorful photos and of course running commentary. It’s the most extensive collection of Jungle Jim’s photos I’ve seen, not counting Jungle Jim’s own website. Actually, go ahead and throw his in there too. Thanks for the documentary Alex!

Past coverage of Jungle Jim’s International Food Market.

A First-Timer’s Visit To Jungle Jim’s

The Editor — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:08:16 +0000

Found via Soapbox Cincinnati, Steve Stephens from the Columbus Dispatch writes about some of the most unique grocery stores in Ohio, including a trip to Jungle Jim’s International Market. The brief but very entertaining review I think is just barely adequate enough to give a true sense of scale of Jungle Jim’s to someone who’s never been.

It’s hard to overemphasize the vastness of Jungle Jim’s, or the seemingly unlimited variety of foodstuffs available inside. Take one standard big-box grocery, add every corner market from here to Taipei, stir in a half-dozen specialty gourmet food stores and a generous helping of wine shops, and top with a walk-in humidor and state liquor store and you’ve pretty much served up Jungle Jim’s. The story covers more than 6 acres.

This is my favorite line:

You remember that one bottle of wine I found, after a year of search, at West Point Market? Jungle Jim’s had three cases, stacked up as if they were out-of-date Twinkies.

Previous coverage of Jungle Jim’s International Food Market.

Jungle Jim’s International Market

The Editor — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:27:33 +0000

From the Band on the Boat to the Big Cheese to the Food Adventure Tram, Jungle Jim’s is Cincinnati’s crown jewel of the crowded International Market/Amusement Park industry. I’m quite sure there’s nothing quite like it. Lost amid all the fun is the fact that Jungle Jim’sis hands-down the best place to fill all your international grocery needs!

More on Jungle Jim’s International Food Market.

Attractions:

Aisle of Inferno
Band on a Boat
The Big Cheese
Foodie Tram Monorail
The Honey Table
Jungle Scene
Jungle Theater
Live Fish Harvest
The Olive Bar
Robin Hood & Sherwood Forest
Singing Characters
Soup-Can Man
The Port-O-Lets
Tour the Jungle

You can have Goetta for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

The Editor — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:06:14 +0000

“A full-size vending machine was converted graphically and functionally to dispense one-pound rolls of goetta,” Balasa said. “It’s the world’s only one.”

Goetta, a German dish, is often compared to breakfast sausage or scrapple. It is a unique, delicious and nutritious mixture of pork, beef, steel-cut (pinhead) oats, and seasonings.

Ohio and Money magazines featured stories about goetta in 2003, and late 2002, editors of highbrow foodie pub Saveur named goetta as one of their “100 Favorite Foods, Places and Things.” That’s pretty incredible considering those editors live in New York, and no doubt just learned to spell goetta. They probably still can’t say get-uh.

“There’s nothing like goetta anywhere in the world,” says Artie Kidwell, chairman of Goettafest. The foodstuff “is totally unique to Greater Cincinnati and just one particular area of Germany, up in its northeast quadrant.”

More from the Enquirer, CityBeat, and of course the Glier’s Goetta.