When you see a “Welcome Hunters” sign outside a kosher pizza shop on Route 42 in Fallsburg, you know something’s different about winter in Sullivan County.

The sign isn’t unusual for this time of year, but the business is.

Feller’s Sprinkles, a place that dishes up hundreds of pizzas a day during the summer, between South Fallsburg and Woodbourne at the Four Corners, is trying to make a go of it when the Orthodox summer visitors are back in the city and snowbirds have flown the coop for warmer climates.

Cook Jeremy Berman, standing behind his counter on Tuesday, says he’ll try anything to get locals to eat kosher food, including making the appeal: “If you don’t see it, ask for it.”

That Sprinkles has stayed open comes as a shock to the few Brooklynites who wander up for the weekend.

“What are you doing open,” said one woman who came through the door around noon. “I can’t believe it.”

The pizza place has been a hit, at times. During Thanksgiving, more than 200 families from the city packed in for the weekend.

“During Sukkos, it was just like in the summer,” Berman said. And that means he stood over a hot counter, making 300 to 400 pies a night.

The occasional town highway crew comes in for a bite.

“Good food is good food,” said Fallsburg Highway Superintendent Howard Conklin, paying for his stuffed shells.

Jeffrey Pearl, a regular who owns Camp Yedidos in Woodbourne, was slopping up a mushroom barley soup.

“If you delivered to Brooklyn, you would have no problem,” he tells Berman.

But mostly it has been slow. It is tough making it after Labor Day, Berman says, especially when your kosher pizza pies are $22 (kosher always costs more), and many locals don’t care if it’s kosher.

Orthodox communities hear locals grumble that the stores get boarded up when people go back to the city, leaving ghost towns behind.

And so Berman and his boss, Shragie Feller, who owns Sprinkles, are asking folks to try a pie, and help them do what few have dared — stay open.

(Source: Times Herald Record)