Re: OK...........Need a source

gmkb · ‎07-29-2012

Earlier today there was a thread about Nueske meats from Wisconsin. Many people spoke highly of this brand. Of course when food is shipped, it is always expensive.

Mary Bailey · ‎03-09-2010

We order from Nueske. Never tried Polish though. They have very good food,

Mistreatedbycs · ‎03-10-2010

First, are you looking for FRESH polish or SMOKED polish....there's a huge difference in texture and taste.

If you are looking for FRESH, look up Klements Sausage or Usingers Sausage on Old World Third Street, both have fabulous sausage.

Smoked Polish is either Johnsonville or Hillshire and that should be available at your grocery store or even online.

Now, if you have a butcher available that will make it for you in a small batch or even a friend with a meat grinder, you need Penzey's Polish Sausage Seasoning, Pork, Casings and you can make your own polish. I've done that many times but it really depends on the grind of the pork, how much fat and how much water but it doesn't appear you want 20#'s of sausage although it does freeze well.

If you order from Klements, the fresh polish is delicious along with their summer sausage.

If you order from Usinger's, fresh polish, weiners with the casings on, beef franks, and summer sausage.

I believe both have catalogs or call and I'm sure these people will help you. Both have quality sausage products and have been around for a long time.

Now you are making me hungary, a thin cut piece of summer sausage, a slice of cheddar cheese and a butter cracker....what more is there to eat?

Who has the better of the two, it's really a horse a piece, you can't go wrong with either one of them.

Good luck.

rosie03 · ‎05-07-2010

we order just about everything they offer, just rotste our orders,but slways have hotdogs in each order. We like the bologna and lunch meats.

forrestwolf · ‎06-20-2010

I appreciate all of your suggestions......I will check in to them, as I do not care for the usual Eckrich, Hillshire Farm, and supermarket brands.........

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.......

Nomore · ‎09-09-2010

Maybe New Braunfels Smokehouse has something. I haven't ordered from them in a couple of years, but we stop by the store to have lunch when we are in the area. You reminded me of when I was a kid, and on the way back from the coast to home San Antonio, we'd stop in one of the small Polish towns' butcher store (my mom was from this area) to pick up sausages for supper.

http://www.nbsmokehouse.com

forrestwolf · ‎06-20-2010

It is just too funny that I am Southern born, and came from a long line of wonderful Southern cooks, but even my grannies 7 sisters even each one cooked differently...but still Southern foods....I can cook, so Southern, but have traveled to many places WAY outside the South, to include many different countries, and learned to cook different...I cooked many things that had never been heard of, and still do, and then married a Yankee Vermonter, and learned even more....My dad is 76 years old, and have cooked so many things for him in the last 8 years that he has never had...I have found that middle GA foods are soooo different from deep South dishes, that people I cook for at work have never had even the southern dishes that I make....I grew up in a town with no Hispanics, no Catholics, and no Jews, and basically no other cultures....Only black and white.... Now, grocery stores cater more to all cultures, except for a few that are still missing in the deep south..I have learned so much with cooking, and just now miss the foods that I could get so easily, when I lived just outside of Atlanta.....once I knew what I wanted, I could find it, in a lot less distance than it now takes me to go to a "local" grocery store.......

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.......

Mistreatedbycs · ‎03-10-2010

I hope you go with Usinger's and the fresh polish and summer sausage along with the skin on weiners...you will be not disappointed. I just saw the flat shipping rate is $9.99 and that's pretty reasonsable since the polish is perishable.

I have a feeling you'll be ordering again before the Holidays if you go with them. True German heritage and good sausage people.

forrestwolf · ‎06-20-2010

@Mistreatedbycs wrote:
I hope you go with Usinger's and the fresh polish and summer sausage along with the skin on weiners...you will be not disappointed. I just saw the flat shipping rate is $9.99 and that's pretty reasonsable since the polish is perishable.

I have a feeling you'll be ordering again before the Holidays if you go with them. True German heritage and good sausage people.

I have never had fresh Polish sausage....I have always had smoked....I have never had "German" weiners, that I know of....BUT....I do love me some weiners.....If grilling is not in the cards, then I bake them in the oven....Just as I would never be out of soap or toilet paper, my house is never out of sausages....... I will be looking into the suggestions here, as stated previous, I just do not go for the grocery store brand.....Both myself and my dad love it when I cook them in the smoker as well, and I put them in a lot of chowders and soups that I make......... And I do love German food, as there is no place here that I can get it, and the BEST that I have ever had is at the Black Forest Inn in Hamilton Ontario.......... OH.....the best sauerkraut soup ever..........

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.......