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Posted on 05/10/2007 6:10:49 PM PDT by SJackson
Mmmmmm........
Sir, I’m all ears...which ones do you recommend instead?
A post below suggests Usingers. Any others?
Very respectfully,
I'm serious, check 'em out.
Usinger’s is the choice. For professionals only. If you have a bunch of drunk friends coming over for the game, save the Usingers for yourself and inflict the Johnsonville’s on your guests.
Interesting,
The Bad Durkheim Wurst Markt, is called a “Sausage Festival” but actually it is the largest wine festival in the World.
I was there a while back. Lots of fun, but I didn’t see a lot of sausages.
Sign me up. I could eat three of those along with a pint or two of Franziskaner.
For a widely-available-in-the-stores-here brat, I do like Johnsonville.
Standard commercial fare: ground up lips, snouts and bung holes. Make your own and find out what good sausage was really meant to taste like.
Usingers is fine but I prefer fresh brats from local german deli’s here in Phoenix. I ordered some Usingers when I lived in Kansas and had diarhea the next day, the flavor was excellent though.
I’ve actually called Usinger’s before to find retail outlets in NW suburban Chicago, and a very nice girl with absolutely no knowledge of geography helped me out (actually, I helped her help me, but I got what I wanted). I had a friend ship me a box as a gift once, the brats came packed in dry ice and survived the journey quite nicely.
"Yeast is yeast and wurst is wurst, and ever the twain shall meet..."
I suspect you didn’t prepare them properly . . . no offense intended, but they do not come pre-cooked. You have to treat them with the same kitchen protocol you use for chicken.
I have been cooking brats since before I hit 18. Cook them in beer and onions for about an hour then grill to crisp, make sure the saurkraut is drained and warmed and put it on, possibly a side of fried potatoes. Only two times have I eaten brat’s that gave me the sh##s, johnsonville and usingers. I won’t buy from a large sausage company, keep it small and local.
In that case you are definitely having a reaction (or even have an allergy) to one of the ingredients.
If all ears is what you want, get the Oscar Meyer franks.
Swissgard: “Pfft. This place is total sausage festival.”
Tokie: “I like Sausage festivals!”
S: “what?!”
T: “Yeah, you know like in Vienna we...”
S: “Noooooooo Tokie. That REAL Sausage festival. This sausage festival no pretty ladies to stick your...”
T: “sausage?”
Is the green stuff the potato salad?
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