Pumps' Perplexities

For years one would go to the local butcher shop and buy
a pound of liverwurst, which was sliced to your preferred
thickness...

You would take the liverwurst home, remove the outer
casing from a slice and place it between two pieces of
bread, with a dab of mustard.....

Since the butcher shops have become extinct so has the
4 inch diameter slice of liverwurst....All you can find
these days is a one pound prepackaged "hunk" which
is only 2-1/4 in diameter...

It appears that modern day packaging and marketing
has turned this grand olde staple into a tubular liver
pate designed for use on crackers....A pity....Pumps