The day the headcheese died.
After 42 years of selling pastrami sandwiches and headcheese in El Cerrito, well-loved European deli the Junket is closing, as first reported by thepage.
"Who knew that Bruno and Cindy’s Labour of Love, and Fountain of Youth, established in 1979 would have such a 42 year fabulous run," read the closure announcement."If those Deli slicers could talk! Countless stories of love, mystery, clotted cream, Köstritzer and…Headcheese. Bruno and Cindy helped, and befriended so many customers."
Junket owners Bruno Frisch, from Germany, and Cindy Frisch, from the UK and Jamaica, got engaged the night they met despite not being able to understand each other's language, according to the lore on the deli's . The two Europeans moved to North America, then eventually quit their corporate jobs and opened the Junket in 1979 in El Cerrito. Today, they are both in their late 80s, but still have been actively running the restaurant.Their daughter, Schatzie Fritsch, told the Chronicle that they decided to close in part due to the risk of working during the pandemic for the elderly couple.
In the closure announcement, the Junket sent off grieving customers with a song dedicated to one of their most popular specialties. It's called"The Day the Headcheese Died," sung to the tune of “American Pie” by Don McClean:
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