I-35W :wink:
Michigan has a number of excellent sausage makers. Kowalski products are good, Koegel natural casing hot dogs are the best I've had.
In terms of nation wide, many here have good things to say about Eckrich Smoked Sausage.
I-35W :wink:
Here in West Tennessee we don't have the smoked sausages nearby that many of you enjoy, but we do have a near monopoly on great breakfast sausage. :grin: We have Jimmy Dean, Grogan's Farm, and my favorite, Williams Farms. All are made within a hundred miles of here. They also produce countless other lesser known brands that make some great fatties.
We get a lot of good sausages over here but there s one small butchershop across the street where my grandparents lived they make fantastic cheese brats. Another great thing are merquez which is a very spicy sausage made of lamb originally from marocco / tunisia. As I live right on the border to straĂźbourg, france you get really really good ones there.
From the baconarea of bratwurstcountry
There is Siler's in Jack's Creek, across from C & R Grocery. They might be a possibility. That may well have been the location, different owners. Trying to think of anybody in Henderson, Bill's is the busiest, but they don't do whole hog.We used to make the trek to Henderson for whole hog every year at opening day of dove season and buy a couple of whole cooked hogs to feed the hunters.Is that still going on up there?I think Irby Kolwick was the guy we bought from.Been several years.Thinking of doing it again is why I ask.
... I'm surprised that you can't do better in Texas but then I have to recall that a lot of middle Europeans settled in the upper Midwest...