{"id":22251,"date":"2019-03-27T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=22251"},"modified":"2019-03-27T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:22:05","slug":"am-pol-eagle-wojdas-pickle-empire-started-in-a-back-room-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2019\/03\/am-pol-eagle-wojdas-pickle-empire-started-in-a-back-room-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Am-Pol Eagle: Wojda\u2019s pickle empire started in a back room barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gregory Witul &#8211; Babcia&#8217;s Closet) We are now well into Lent and while I love getting a fish fry from Happy Swallow, Londa&#8217;s Diner, Jim\u2019s Restaurant, and Scharf\u2019s, I sometimes want a little lighter fair. So while everyone else is enjoying their yellow pike and haddock I\u2019ll settle in with the classic grilled cheese sandwich, french fries, and a pickle spear on the side. While today\u2019s pickles are a tasty treat, they in no way compare to the ogorek kiszony of Cheektowaga\u2019s classic Tree Pickle Company.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial giant that would become the Tree Pickle Company got its start in the back room of Peter Wojda\u2019s butcher shop at 55 Walden Ave. Born in Warsaw in the summer of 1886, Wojda moved from Poland with his wife Mary and son to Buffalo around 1913.<\/p>\n<p>Settling in Buffalo\u2019s East Side, Peter took up his old trade of selling meat and groceries on Walden Avenue. To supplement their income, the Wojdas began producing \u201cold world\u201d style pickles to sell exclusively in their shop. Within a short time, customers from across the city began descending on their little store for their barreled pickles and soon the pickle income outpaced the meat sales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ampoleagle.com\/wojdas-pickle-empire-started-in-a-back-room-barrel-p13222-202.htm\">Read full story on Am-Pol Eagle<\/a>&#8212;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gregory Witul &#8211; Babcia&#8217;s Closet) We are now well into Lent and while I love getting a fish fry from Happy Swallow, Londa&#8217;s Diner,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,963],"class_list":["post-22251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-am-pol-eagle","tag-gregory-witul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Fullscreen-capture-3272019-111640-AM.jpg?fit=640%2C384&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-5MT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22253,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251\/revisions\/22253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}