Greek’s Quality Meats Closing After 50 Years
BRIDGEWATER–An iconic South Shore business is closing its doors after serving the community for five decades. When it does, it will take with it the secret recipe for some of the region’s most beloved foods: Lunenburg Pudding and Lunenburg Sausage.
Greek’s Quality Meats officially closed on June 3. In a Facebook post, the owners said the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic forced their hand.
“The last few years have been challenging, with many of our wholesale customers having had forced closures due to Covid and [fewer] people buying retail from the ‘old-time butcher shop,'” they wrote. “We appreciate your patronage over the years.”
Greek’s Quality Meats was founded in 1975, under the name Lunenburg Pudding and Sausage Ltd., by Victor Greek, at the same location it now sits. When he founded the shop, Greek had already been making his famous Lunenburg Sausage and Lunenburg Pudding for two decades, to serve the many German settlers in the area.
Lunenburg Pudding is made by combining beef, pork, and liver (a traditional German food similar to pâté). The ingredients are boiled, ground up, spiced, and added to a casing.
In 2018, Greek’s son, Richard Greek, sold the shop to businessman Gary MacNeil, who had continued churning out the shop’s most famous foods.
Before it closed, Greek’s Meats serviced a wide variety of wholesale customers: restaurants, pubs, pizzerias, bakeries, retail grocery chains, convenience stores, specialty stores, assisted living centers, and even the military.
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