Batter Blaster CEO Sean O’Connor and COO Nick Tangborn – that’s me – recently took a trip up to Elgin, TX, to the Southside Market BBQ, a restaurant and facility that makes Elgin Sausage, some of the tastiest sausage you’ll ever try. Our pal Ross Johnson gave us the full tour, including a 10 lb meatfest that had both of us giddy with delight.
Ross shows off their wares in the Southside Market store; all the sausage is smoked on the premises.
Unsmoked sausage in natural casing, ready to go home with you.
Elgin's famous hot sauce -- it's a vinegar based sauce that separates so you have to shake it up real good. Killer stuff.
The deer room -- lots of taxidermy here. You can't quite make it out in that blurry iPhone photo but that's a bobcat springing off the second to last column. I think one deer was staring at me the whole time I ate.
Mmmmm... meat.
Turducken is for wusses -- real foodies eat chicken stuffed with jambalaya. You can almost hear me salivating in this picture.
This is where the magic happens. Or maybe it's where you order your food. I get them confused sometimes.
He's dry-rubbing chickens before they go in the smoker.
That's a lot of meat. At least we had pickles and crackers to keep us honest. And yes, it's all served on butcher paper. Dig in.
Addendum: that is one happy fellow.
That is one happy fellow! The lunging taxidermy bobcat, not so much.