Now I can get some very good smoked summer sausage around here within a sixty mile circle but I like to spend the money for online chubs just to see what it tastes like in other states.
My failing taste buds , so far, work for about one slice of sausage so I can still taste good, better and best.
7 or 8 years ago, I ordered one that was definitely different in a positive taste way but I did not book mark the store so I have not been able to find it again.
With postage , it is over priced though some shops ship free over x amount of dollars.
Because I am in Minn. if I just put in Smoked Summer Sausage I get a pile of sites from Wisc. , where near every meat market has there own variety but I want to try other states so I have to put in {state} smoked summer sausage.
I did this with hams some years back and was a bit disappointed that the hams from ham country were not really worth the cost over what we have here.
I also get some hot dogs and bratwurst, which some times does turn up an excellent alternative to local products but there is a butcher shop in Brownton, Minn. , a VERY small town that has the best smoked bratwurst, though they look more like wieners, I have ever had.
I just had a venison brat from a a butcher shop in Pierz , Minn., which was incredibly good but then while the town is barely 1,000 people , the shop is nationally known.
The little towns in that area, a lot smaller than Pierz, survive often on a church, gas station, plus beer and burger type shop or two for weekend traffic, but our asinine rectal orifice for a governor has now shut them down again.
Even fifteen years ago, a fair amount had a local butcher shop, but state health Nazis and politicians shut them down by passing draconian laws to be open, even though there did not seem to be people dying or even getting sick from them except maybe some left -wing piece of human debris who moved in to the area and whose gut could not handle anything stronger than humas and beans.
Do any of you down southern/southwest way still have intersection joints, not a town, a location, some with some without a formal name, but just an intersection with a restaurant , tavern or two and a gas station.
They thrive in Wisc. but are fading in Minn.
