Gothamist: Police Bust Greenpoint Meatery for "Hot Kielbasa" Cocaine

meganificent

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:05:47 -0500

Sikorski was open this morning... Is it business as usual?

jaycjay

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:05:36 -0500

Funny, but it's not likely that just any stranger could walk into the place and ask for "hot kilbasa" and buy coke. It's the term they used among themselves on the phones that were tapped. The market was a storage and distribution point, not a take-out store. Street level sales would be a step or two down the line.

matty

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:16:34 -0500

what would happen if you ordered some "hot kilbasa" and instead of "hot kilbasa" you actually got hot kilbasa. that would be a pretty funny mix up.

NannyState

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:55:54 -0500

I prefer my hot rails with mustard on the side.

Barbj8

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:44:25 -0500

Great. Now I'm hungry.

emilydickinson

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:58:24 -0500

I guess they learned their lesson from the whole 'Cokies' debacle in the late 1990's and decided to get smart and use clever code words.

sarahlucy

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:51:22 -0500

haha this is exactly like on weeds...with the pot sandwiches

jaycjay

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:11:41 -0500

"reminds me of henry hill putting heroin in tomato cans." Except that they weren't actually putting cocaine in the kielbasa, they were just using the term "hot kielbasa" to refer to it so that the calls might seem legitimate. Replacing the more common term, "CDs."

brooklynbs

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:58:48 -0500

Three of my four butcher shops have closed in the last year now, lol.

Rob T Firefly

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:55:20 -0500

@1: You win so hard. Have three Internets.

matty

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:46:03 -0500

that's awesome. reminds me of henry hill putting heroin in tomato cans.

Qraymond

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:17:03 -0500

Huh. That explains why I didn't sleep for 85 hours after my last meal at Veselka.