Wanda's Cafe?
I was driving by the livestock auction house on Stiger and noticed a sign saying "Wanda's Cafe". I have never noticed this before. The sign said "breakfast and lunch". Has anyone ever gone here? Is it a sit down cafe? How did I never see this? Has anyone ever eaten here?
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Weedwacker Ive noticed it also, but never see any cars there besides on auction days so im not really too sure.. sounds like fresh farm food though just wondering when there open or whatever!
Soccermom12 I just tried googling the name of the cafe nothing comes up for it so does anyone have any ideas about this place???
It is just opened on Tuesdays for the Livestock Auction. Serves a great meal.
Certainly helps the Farmers out to get a decent meal or two during the day at sale...Friendly down to earth folks...Wanda and her Mom Janet , family members been there doing that for decades.... it is like going back in time. BUT not for city folks as you just might sit next to a person around the lunch bar on a stool next to a hard working farmer with muck boots on with mud and manure smelling like his cows or goats... I love it there, but then I have been a lifelong Farm Gal...For 95% of folks on this site go to Panero's for your lunch.
Jo ha-ha ........love your post, Jo.
I bet the food at Wanda's is good --- maybe some good omelets from all those fresh eggs?
And the spelling is *Panera's* ---a place with good lunch food --- but very overpriced.
They always have incentives to try to get you in there --- I just had a month of free bagels every day. LOL
Wow, sounds like a place I would like to have meal! I know where I'm going for breakfast on Tuesday!!
This is a hidden gem of Hackettstown. I never knew the name of it, but it IS absolutely like traveling back in time to the 40s or 50s. Everyone should go at least once. The whole auction market is fascinating, actually (except if you're like me you'll want to take home all the goats, rabbits and chickens!).
Rebecka Definitely good food. Wanda knows what she is doing. And the food is hot. Every Tuesday at the Auction market. What Jo said is very true. That's part of the atmosphere.
Ms Fishy Great description of the experience. It's been many years since I've been there.
When my sons were young I would take them there to see the animals and watch the auction. They didn't want to leave. The city folks should see what living in the country is really about and take a trip there.
Magpie I used to being my daughter there when she was little. We loved looking at all the animals.
Mansfield mama When I was a kid the auction was Saturday and Tuesday. Dad took us to Wandas after we saw the animals. I took our kids over in the summer and did the same.
Just another perspective of the "auction market experience", all of those calves, baby goats, fury bunnies, and animals are there to be slaughtered, not sent home as pets or go to a petting zoo. All will be dead in a few short days. Hopefully, parents will explain this to their children. Beyond me how anyone can consider the auction market a fun place.
QUINLAN106 Those little critters at least are not victims of factory farming, Quinlan106. Most animals there have lived a much more humane existence than where industrial farmed meat stock comes from. You've probably seen most of them free-ranging in the fields on our back roads.
I think if people and their kids do eat meat that the auction is a good way to come to terms with that, and also a rare example of rural community living in a very populated state.
I was waiting on a comment like that. Farming is the backbone of our Country...It is educational for kids to see and hear the Auctioneer...Let them watch the loads of hay being sold and ask the difference in prices. Then onto the Feathered friends, they continue on for most part to lay eggs. Let them see that tired looking farmer that was up at 4am to do milking and feeding early so he could get to Auction...Look at their hands...blisters, callus' broken fingers they never had time to get set by Dr.. Look at boots, jackets, duck taped and super glued. They don't worry about being a fashion statement ...They have equipment payments larger than morgages.Let them see people who work damn hard 24/7 for little in return..But Thank God they are still Farming.
Not all!! I have bought a couple of rabbits, pigeons, and ducks in past years as pets. It is a slaughter house. Its where Farmers go to make money after they raise their animals for us to eat. My kids never knew it. All they knew is people were buying animals. I didn't find out til I was a teen. They were doing household items too. But not sure if they are still doing that as I have not been there in a while.
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