Summer sausage???

[Kevin]

My wife travels for her job from time to time. Last week she brought back one of those snack pack of the summer sausage.

I don’t think they are called summer sausage, but those long thin meat sticks they sell in grocery stores. What are they called?

Anyway, I was saving it to eat in a couple days. I don’t buy them often, maybe once every 2 or 3 months, if that.

Last year she went to Tokyo and brought home some really good beef jerky from Japan. I’m sorry I don’t remember the brand.

This one looked really good. She ate it.

I just ordered a variety pack on Amazon. The Vermont Sausage Company. I hope they are as good.

I know some of y’all like @Wyandot Jim probably breaks out his uber smoker and makes his own. But I’m just a mere mortal and will have to suffer with store bought.

 

[eveled]

I've been known to eat processed meat sticks from time to time myself.

One of my favorites years ago was a red hot sausage. Sealed in a plastic tube immersed in juice. Like a pickle. The first ingredient was beef lips.

I worked jn a factory, across the driveway was a potato chip company. They had an outlet store. When we were on the skids we'd get lunch from there.

Beef lip sausage and a massive bag of pop corn for under a buck. The good old days.

 

[MaxMan]

Do you mean Slim Jims?

 

[Yaworski]

The first ingredient was beef lips.

Still beef. Sausage was created to use up all the parts of the animal. I knew a guy who'd buy sirloin to make sausage. I said, "Dude, you're missing the point of sausage."

 

[eveled]

I know a guy who buys a $75 prime rib dinner from a restaurant to make chili.

 

[Mobuck]

Immediately prior to deer season, some of previous season's left over deer burger goes into 'meat sticks' smoked in Son's Traeger pellet smoker. I think Son made around 30# (pre-cooked weight) of meat sticks.
There's a big difference between 'meat sticks' and 'summer sausage'-- both size and ingredients.

 

[MaxMan]

Still beef. Sausage was created to use up all the parts of the animal. I knew a guy who'd buy sirloin to make sausage. I said, "Dude, you're missing the point of sausage."

The Mrs. grew up a farm in Indiana, About 80% self-sufficient. She said the phrase "everything but the squeal" was very accurate when they made sausage. He uncle's smoker was a large hollow tree

 

[Kevin]

Immediately prior to deer season, some of previous season's left over deer burger goes into 'meat sticks' smoked in Son's Traeger pellet smoker. I think Son made around 30# (pre-cooked weight) of meat sticks.
There's a big difference between 'meat sticks' and 'summer sausage'-- both size and ingredients.

See, I knew someone made their own sausage.

I grew up eating summer sausage. Not regularly, but as snacks.

But The term “summer sausage” just sounds more appetizing than “meat sticks.”

@eveled , I bet that’s some good chili.

 

[peachhead]

We had a meat store here that would make meat sticks from your deer if you brought it quartered in a cooler. I did that a couple times, they were really good. The meat store has since changed hands so I don't think they do it anymore.

 

[Yaworski]

I know a guy who buys a $75 prime rib dinner from a restaurant to make chili.

I find it interesting that at the local supermarket stew meat is more expensive than a roast. When I was a kid, stew meat was odds and ends and was cheap. To make stew, I buy a roast, chop it up and cook it until the meat falls apart.

 

[Kevin]

Do you mean Slim Jims?View attachment 72770

Yes! This. Only this brand is really greasy in my humble opinion.

There are a lot of smaller brands that seem to be pretty high quality.

 

[WanderLust]

Saying they use "everything but the squeal" isn't totally correct. They used the 'squeal' to make oinkment!
Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[WAYNO]

Tillamook Country Smoker comes to mind, and my preferred choice out West. They have some quite excellent and fresh meat sticks in their factory store, but that's not gonna work for you. They package up their meat sticks for sale elsewhere. They are all quite good.

Pepperoni, Terriyaki, Hunters Sausage, and other choices, all seem to be available on Amazon.

 

[nekvermont]

Saying they use "everything but the squeal" isn't totally correct. They used the 'squeal' to make oinkment!
Sorry, couldn't resist.

That made me laugh out loud.

 

[MaxMan]

Saying they use "everything but the squeal" isn't totally correct. They used the 'squeal' to make oinkment!
Sorry, couldn't resist.

Chime in anytime

 

[Ride1949]

 

[TATERARK]

These folks make a great snack stick and summer sausage.

https://www.shopstonies.com/

 

[Kevin]

@WAYNO thanks, for the Tillamook suggestion. We love their cheese and cream cheeses.

@TATERARK thanks, I’ll look for these as well.

 

[eveled]

That precooked bacon is pretty good substitute for jerky. It doesn’t need refrigeration until you open it.

 

[wheelgun1958]

I know a guy who buys a $75 prime rib dinner from a restaurant to make chili.

12 hours in the slow cooker?

 

[eveled]

12 hours in the slow cooker?

I hope so. I’m surprised nobody asked if he used beans? For the record I hope not.

 

[Kevin]

I hope so. I'm surprised nobody asked if he used beans? For the record I hope not.

When I was growing up, my dad made chili with cut up chuck roast. Personally I think it’s better with ground beef, like hamburger meat.

But he would also add chocolate. Like a quick and easy Mexican Mole almost. It was actually very good

 

[eveled]

Every time I have chili with either cubed up meat or ground meat, I wonder if it would be better with both cubed and ground at the same time.

 

[WAYNO]

And concerning terminology, to make sure we're discussing what the OP asked...

Summer Sausage is roughly the diameter of a mans wrist, +/- . And Summer Sausage is so close to Thuringer Sausage, the terms are often used as the same product.

And pepperoni, sportsmans stick, etc, is roughly the diameter of a persons finger.

 

[Deer Hunter]

Summer sausage is about 2" thick and is almost always found in those gift cheese samplers/baskets. Also found on grocery shelves. I usually cut one up, brown em and toss em in a pot of some variety of Zaterains rice.

 

[Kevin]

And concerning terminology, to make sure we're discussing what the OP asked...

Summer Sausage is roughly the diameter of a mans wrist, +/- . And Summer Sausage is so close to Thuringer Sausage, the terms are often used as the same product.

And pepperoni, sportsmans stick, etc, is roughly the diameter of a persons finger.

Thanks.
I also did find Tillamook sausage on Amazon. They are coming today.

 

[WendyZXZ]

Sausage of a variety of brands, but garlicky venison is a fav and Summer sausage works, a ciabatta roll and perhaps a hunk of cheese makes a quick and good grab and go meal when I have to go onsite at work.

 

[bigbillyboy]

That made me laugh out loud.

Yeah, that was funny .....

 

[Kevin]

These just came. Thank you Amazon.
Tender, a little salty, but very good.

 

[rugerguy]

...and then in the old neighborhood, east side of Cleveland, the big deal was "blood sausage" and don;t ask me, scared me then, like 70 years ago...

,,,,,,nope, that stuff is not good for you if you get the gout....