Fishertown Country Store

Best apple dumplings in the world are found here! Also the cashiers are a hoot! They are very friendly and some have very funny jokes that they like to share. Great neighborhood store.

Fisher’s is a staple of Bedford County, and well worth the jaunt outside of «town» to pay the little country store a visit.
For the locals, there’s kitchen and culinary staples a-​plenty: bulk dry goods, a well-​stocked deli, local jams, jellies and other locally-​produced items, and a variety of kitchenware/​cookware t’boot.
If you’re looking for something interesting and/​or tasty, it can be found here: cheese ends (just what it sounds like: the first and last cuts of cheese blocks in the deli, offered for a discounted price/​lb. and full of a variety of tasty cheeses) gobs (which may be called whoopie pies by the non-​native), fresh produce, kerosene lamps, cookbooks, mix’n’match candy aisle, slabs of baking chocolate, etc.
Closing recommendation: get a gob. Or two, or three. Once you wake up from the sugar coma you’ll thank me.

To say that I have passed this country store at least one hundred times, without stopping in, is no exaggeration. I have really been missing out and I know as sure as I am sitting here typing this that I will stop in on my way to or from my home town again and again.
My home town, Johnstown, Pa. Is known for their submarine sandwiches, referred to more often as a sub. Living and traveling all over the country I have now come to the conclusion that the only place to get a submarine sandwich is in my home town, but seeing this store is only twenty minutes away and close to the turnpike, I believed them when they had «Best subs in town» posted outside.
Nada, their subs are like anyone else’s «subs» in this country, six inches long and on a soft roll, where a Johnstown sub is on an 18 – 24 inch long crusty loaf of bread, layered with meats and cheeses, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, hot peppers, if you like and drizzled with an herb infused oil.
However, all was certainly not lost, this country store is wonderful! Rows of very inexpensive fresh produce, aisles of locally made jams, noodles, canned goods, snacks and specialty items. Homemade baked goods, including gobs, a nice sized deli with incredible prices, fresh butchered meats and poultry as well as a frozen food section.
They have really neat hot or cold food items ready to go like breakfast burritos, chicken salads, well many different salads and desserts, but have you ever had a stuffed hash brown? Seriously folks these are to die for and when I asked what was in them half the store’s customers and most of the employees turned to me with oohs and awes telling me how good they were. Oh my gosh, they were stuffed with gooey cheese, browned sausage and onions and I got the last one, yay! I also got a small thinly sliced and lean tavern ham and Swiss cheese sandwich for my drive home, which was very good along with some pickled eggs for hubby and I’ll eat the beets.
They will make you a «sub» just like Subway or any other place makes them (I call these hoagies). I had a cooler in my car, bought a bunch of stuff and a bag of ice and saved lots of money. Oh and the gallon jugs of Galliker’s ice tea that I was loving in Johnstown and buying at the Honey Bear two for five bucks were four for five bucks here, so I grabbed four more gallons.
The folks are very friendly, everyone seemed to know each other by name. A nice sized laundromat is attached to the building and the place is clean, a little worn, but with the years of traffic they have received it adds character.