Most of the chorizo I buy is in casings, even though I'm going to take it out to use it. I did finally find some in bulk form just last week. Believe it or not, I have a hard time finding really good chorizo in Dallas. It's Texas, it should be easy.
BTW, I was born 10 miles from Woodbury. We should swap some South Jersey stuff for Texas stuff. I'm craving some Amoroso's hoagie rolls and some Butterscotch Krimpets.
CD
It's a small world, isn't it!
I have bought Mexican chorizo occasionally, and it's always in skins, but I don't know why, because it is always removed from the skin, and cooked loose. And I don't know when you moved from here, but many years ago Mexican ingredients (and many other ethnic foods) simply were not available in this area! I made trips to NYC to stock up (that was before even phone ordering was common, with many, and NY had neighborhoods for anything, including sausage ingredients!), back in the 80s (Italian foods were available in Philly, but even Chinatown was small then), but late in the 80s and early 90s things started changing, and supermarkets got larger. Kennett Square became the mushroom capitol, and the workers were almost entirely Mexican! So there was a Mexican grocery over south of there, in Avondale, plus a tortilla factory! Slowly, in this area, Mexican grocery stores started showing up here in my area, and eventually, the one opened here in Woodbury, on Broad St! Also an authentic restaurant it the back. That's the place I take my excess epazote and chiles to, and the owner gives me deals on some of the things I buy. That's the place I tried a couple of the chorizo from, and one tasted almost identical to the recipe I make, with just enough, but not too much vinegar.
Another type I usually remove from the casings is the fresh Italian sausage, since it is usually cooked loose, in recipes I use it in. There are a couple of companies that sell some loose, and some in casings, but most in casings.
Speaking of Amoroso rolls, when I used to work in the Bellmawr industrial park, they opened another factory there in a huge building where a place closed down, and I used to smell it every morning driving past it! They had about a dozen delivery trucks running out of there.