Pinconning Cheese Store & Sandwich Shop

I love this cheese shop! Raised in Beaverton, MI, but a southern native, this is my go-​to place for getting smoked herring, pickled Bologna and squeeky Pinconning cheese when I miss home! No one in Texas has ever heard of pickled Bologna, so it was my pleasure to find that they had a website where I can buy online. Now my fiancée can know the pleasure of club crackers with big hunks of Kogels Bologna! I have ordered from them twice online and visited the brick and mortar store once and the experience has been great all three times. The price for shipping can be high, so I doubled my order this time, so I don’t run out as quick.

We stop in Pinconning every time we go up North because we LOVE Pinconning cheese. This was the first time we stopped here at the Pinconning Cheese Store. We are NOT happy. First, the lady at the counter told us that all the breads in front of us on the counter were baked fresh that morning. In reality, that bread was so old and dry, and it tasted terrible, and it now has mold on it the next day. That was a flat out LIE that it was baked that morning. Also, I am not quite sure what kind of cheese I bought there, but it in no way tasted like Pinconning cheese and I have been eating the same kind of cheese for 50 years so I know my cheese. We had to go down the street to our usual cheese shop and get it there.
Needless to say, we will never go back to a place that lies to sell goods. Sad really… :(

There’s a wall of hot sauces! Complete with ghost peppers. Delicious jerky. Cheese. Their pizza sandwiches are really good… Every time I’ve been here, the workers have been really helpful and sweet. There are seasonings and a few canned items. Chocolate covered and yogurt covered pretzels. Doesn’t look like much from the outside but it has many items to satisfy your hungry stomach!

I love, love, love Pinconning Cheese! As soon as I checked onto the lovely Pinconning Trails Inn I headed to this store, which I remembered liking when I was here in 2007. They let me taste several varieties of cheeses and I decided to get the milder version. Don’t you just love the way it squeaks when you eat it? Best cheese in the whole wide world!
This place also sells deli sandwiches and many kinds of jerky, canned goods, and local specialties. But it’s the cheese that’s a chunk of heaven…