We bought regularly until our income took a cut and we just couldn’t justify it anymore. The ice cream is wonderful, and like others, I loved their veggie mixes. The meat was always too expensive for a large household, but their baby baked potatoes and the rice pilafy mix were two things we bought every other week.
We used to love Pierogies from them, but my taste buds have undergone a major transformation since then. I saw one of their trucks just the other day and wondered if I’d still like them.
I can’t afford them these days though.
I love the 6 Cheese Tortellini. I’ve tried a lot of different types from various stores, and Schwan’s is still my favorite. The price is comparable to grocery prices, too.
Many of their other items are good, but out of my budget. Every now and then I’ll spring for ice cream, though.
Ummm…was that in response to #5? :dubious:
Seriously though, my brother enrolled my mother in the Schwann’s thing because she was old and they delivered. Since I was back at home, I got to eat some of their stuff as well. They had a good steak variety pack and some good ice cream. We also liked their teriyaki chicken. Our home-made Chicken Kiev is better than their prepackaged version.
Then they changed drivers and I moved and mom’s dog just did not like the new driver at all, so they couldn’t hear my mother’s orders at the door and they stopped taking my mother’s orders over the phone and eventually just stopped coming around at all.
Overall, I felt their offerings were good but not great. If you’re home-bound and Schwanns delivers, it’s pretty darn awesomely convenient and healthy. But if you’re mobile and know how to cook, you can do better by getting out to a store and getting your own supplies to prepare.
—G!
I’m your Ice Cream Man
Stop me when I pass you by.
. --Van Halen
. *Ice Cream Man *
. [No doubt a DLR cover]
The Schwan’s around here have had problems with giving their customers food poisoning every now and then. And I always figure, how bad off do you have to be, to have your groceries delivered to your front door? It’s one small step up from Meals On Wheels delivery. Nothing against that, if you need food delivered, and can pay for it, fine… But then, I’m prejudiced against them just by association. Our next door neighbors were utter assholes, but their in-laws couldn’t get enough of them and couldn’t do enough for these young able-bodied adults (both of them with high-paying jobs). The in-laws gave them money, sent them on vacations, babysat their kids, planted their garden, etc. And of course paid for Schwan’s food as the big fat cherry on top of the Loving In-Law Sundae. I guess they couldn’t think of anything else they could do for their asshole offspring. I suppose frozen steak and lobster deliveries were in the future, but they moved, and the Schwan truck was never seen again.
The kids loved their push-pops. I’m probably overly fond of the Shepherd’s Pie. Their fruit pies are grand… but they discontinued a lot of the really good stuff, and their prices have gotten pretty outrageous.
Years ago we were a customer. Recently a driver gave us a catalog… Can’t see blowing the budget for 3 meals on one.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think their headquarters is in Minnesota, not Wisconsin. Marshall, Mn in fact.
We used to be regular low volume customers. We got ice cream products quite regularly, and I loved their muffin pucks. Then they started not having what we wanted to order and it would be back ordered. Then we had four drivers in the space of six months. Apparently as a job, it sucks. The last guy told us the Schwan’s pizzas are exactly the same as a grocery store pizza (I think it was Tony’s but I can’t remember for sure) as it was run on the same production line and just got different packaging and a higher price tag. The next time I got that grocery store pizza, lo and behld it had the Schwan’s label on the back.
When the last guy quit, we never got a visit from a new guy and we just stopped ordering. I haven’t really missed it.
Used to order, not regularly. As others have said, you are paying for the delivery. But, I’m gonna go to the grocery store anyway for everything else, so why bother with them?
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I think the pizza is the same as Red Baron’s, iirc. There’s a little swan emblem on the back. It’s decent but cheaper in the grocery.
Just in general. I’ve been informed that “schwanz” is yiddish for penis. Also see schlong.
I stand corrected. I knew it was somewhere “up there” where it’s cold.
I tried a few items from them, but I really liked American Frozen Foods. They really saved my cookies back in 93. We had ordered from them at the tail end of December, and took delivery just at the beginning of January, right when mrAru was being deployed on a Northern Run for 4 months [Groton to Scotland, under the ice for a while, then to festive Tromso Norway, the Paris of the North, then home again] right in time for me to get pneumonia badly enough that I could just about manage to sleep on the couch, and stagger into the kitchen and nuke something to eat, and back to bed again. If I hadn’t had what would normally be 6 months of dinners only for 2 people, I wouldn’t have been able to eat. The only food we had trouble with from AFF in 3 yearswas a package of tilapia that had apparently been handled wrong because it smelled horribly oily fish-y, like mackarel instead of briny like tilapia should. They sent someone out with 2 packages of steak, 1 replacement and 1 as an apology.
I’ve tried only their Red Baron Pizza (individual two-pack) from the supermarket. I work across the street from one of their distributors. They have a huge walled parking lot but i’ve never seen more than 6 cars in it.
Correct. And that little salmonella thingwas years ago…
The kids highly endorse the strawberry sundae crunch bars.
Schmekle is the vulgar term for penis in Yiddish.
Schwanz is more like a “prick”, as in an idiot or fool. At least in my experience, that’s how it’s been used.
My dad worked for Schwan’s for a while, so I got to try a lot of their products. The giant bag of chicken nuggets was tasty and would probably work well for a bunch of 15-year-olds.
You made me laugh myself into a coughing fit.
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Back in the day when I had a house, I WANTED them to deliver, but the guy who covered my neighborhood would only come at something stupid like 3pm on a Thursday. Sorry, I have a job. I can’t take off early on Thursdays just to come home and get your stuff.
Then a friend of mine tried to get a job there and went on a ride-along with one of the Schwans guys. Turned out the guy worked 14-16 hours a day, five or six days a week. No way my friend was going to do that! But that kind of ‘required hours’ made me so NOT want to get their stuff after I found that out.
That was a long time ago and I haven’t seen one of their catalogs since. I’d think they’d do gonzo business in my very large apartment complex, but oh well.