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C Town on Washington — Brooklynian

C Town on Washington

einy
einy
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
Has anyone noticed that the stinky C-Town on Washington Avenue has a new name? It's now "NSA Foodmarkets."

I did a quick Google search, thinking it was a chain, but nothing comes up.

Does anyone know who or what NSA is? Or whether the name change means we might finally get decent meat, fruit and veg in this part of the nabe?

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  • mr. tips
    mr. tips

    Subject: Re: C Town on Washington

    EiNY wrote: Has anyone noticed that the stinky C-Town on Washington Avenue has a new name? It's now "NSA Foodmarkets."

    I did a quick Google search, thinking it was a chain, but nothing comes up.

    Does anyone know who or what NSA is? Or whether the name change means we might finally get decent meat, fruit and veg in this part of the nabe?
    *HOPES*
  • lo kee
    lo kee
    I thought that was "National Security Administration". Maybe they have spy fruit.
  • ibike
    ibike
    I've been wondering about this too, I hope it means some changes to that store it would be an excellent improvement.

    I've also been wondering what happened to the car with busted out windows and 4 slashed tires that after months of not moving just up and disappeared from prospect place btw. grand and classon.
  • phrez
    phrez

    Subject: NSA

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let it be a decent store with good fruit and veggies! I hate C-Town. You're right, it's very stinky in there. I never dared buy anything in the meat dept. because the smell always turns my stomach. The vegetable isle is quite lame. We really need a good grocery store on Washington. C-Town was nothing but big brand, high fructose corn syrup crap. I'm tired of walking all the way to Key Foods on Flatbush for quality food. Although if it does turn out to be good, NSA will probably mean Not So Affordable.
  • naugastyle
    naugastyle
    I would love for a good store to take that spot. I find Key Food on Flatbush hard to avoid because of the hours, but lately have been suspicious of them. Their cheese, which is a wide selection for a non-specialty store and used to be quite good, has been pretty rancid for at least a year now. Not the factory-packaged Irish or organic kinds of course, but the kinds they cut and wrap themselves. There's often a horrible smell coming out of non-stinky cheese, there's oil separating out that you can feel as soon as you touch the OUTSIDE of the wrapping, sometimes there are cheeses with mold (not blue cheeses!) sitting right on top of the pile.

    And to top it off, their "packed on" dates make no sense...you could go in today and see ones that are "packed on" a date in September. Is that September 2007? I know cheese is good for much longer than most sell-by dates indicate (oh, and the packed-on and sell-by dates are the same on their labels) but come on! Or did they somehow pack in September 2008?

    Anyway....that's just cheese but it makes me wonder about the rest of the produce/meat in Key. May be prettier than Key on Washington, but hmm...
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    Well, I was just there a few minutes ago and it hasn't changed a bit inside.

    Still smells funky too. I only go there for dry and packaged stuff.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Ha! This thread reminds me of the last time that store was redone:

    http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=645&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

    Talk about a blast from the past!
  • sje
    sje
    Oh, the C-Town! When I moved to Washington ave 7 or 8 years ago, I walked in there, took one whiff, and walked out, disgusted. Can anyone tell me how a store that's supposed to be full of fresh delicious food smell like rotted shite? So gross. :?
  • steve austin
    steve austin
    I think the smell is old, salted cod, which they keep in cardbord boxes on the floor.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    I am convinced the place is wired. I mean, NSA? for fuck's sake!
  • phrez
    phrez
    Washington Ave is screaming for good grocery store. Lets hope it doesn't take too long.
  • renoqueen
    renoqueen

    Subject: The Met on Vandy?

    What's wrong with the Met on Vandy? It's family owned - they are very nice, will order anything you ask them to and its always fairly fresh. A few organics etc. No stinky too.

    That said, I mostly shop at the Farmer's Mkt but the Met and the occasional stop at Whole Foods in the City on my way home seems to do the trick.

    Now, the Key Foods on Washington is another story - it gives me slightly less heebie-jeebies than the C-Town but its on par with the one on Flatbush.
  • booyah_achieved
    booyah_achieved

    Subject: Steak

    I lived in Greenpoint, and would frequent the C-Town on Manhattan & Java. C-Town is kind of a crap chain, but that location was actually not too bad. So when I moved to this hood, I thought, "Great - there's a C-Town close by."
    Wow oh wow was I wrong. What a shithole.
    One night I decided I was gonna cook up some steak fajitas. I headed for C-Town figuring how hard can it be to find a decent steak if I'm not being picky in terms of cuts. Yikes. Every "cut" they have is nasty piece of chuck that's been pounded into oblivion. I suspected that the butcher recently learned of some infidelity and decided to take his rage out on his work. If it had not been for the labels, I would have thought the entire beef section was veal cutlets.
  • carapace shell
    carapace shell
    Anyone notice the odd smell in Key Foods on Washington? WTF is that? It's always there.

    It permeates some of the food, even. My boyfriend brought home some marshmallows from there that tasted just like that smell.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    I just ... don't buy food in my nabe unless it's been cooked in a nabe restaurant. . sorry.
  • bkchickie
    bkchickie
    alafairnadia wrote: I just ... don't buy food in my nabe unless it's been cooked in a nabe restaurant. . sorry.
    I think that the Key Foods on Flatbush, although the staff is super nasty, is okay. I will go there, to the Met, or to the Wash. Ave. Key Foods for non-perishables. I like Natural Land for my fruits and veggies, when I can't get to the Greenmarket.

    I still don't have a good meat/poultry market, and I don't do supermarket meat. This neighborhood is also crying for a good butcher.
  • neartoms
    neartoms
    Yeah, we really need a good butcher. It's a looooong walk over to the 6th Ave Pork Store.
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    Lo Kee wrote: I thought that was "National Security Administration". Maybe they have spy fruit.
    I thought it was "No Strings Attached". Maybe it's also a meat market.
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