{"id":8730,"date":"2013-02-08T05:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2013-02-08T05:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T13:30:59","slug":"usingers-meats-milwaukee-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8730","title":{"rendered":"Usinger’s Meats – Milwaukee, Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a bit about Usinger\u2019s<\/a> the other day.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the rest of the story, as I prepare to dig into their natural casing \u201cOld World Recipe\u201d wieners.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty straightforward ingredients with these pups,\u00a0 beef and pork,\u00a0 water, spices, sugar,\u00a0 salt, paprika, and a couple of the sodiums as a preservative, in a natural lamb casing.\u00a0\u00a0 My kind of dog. \u00a0Mrs. Burgerdogboy will be sorry she missed out on these, she loves a good hot dog.<\/p>\n

Back to the story.<\/p>\n

Immigrant Fred Usinger Sr. arrived in Milwaukee from Frankfurt (!) in 1880, took over a little butcher shop in downtown, and eventually married a niece of the former owner. \u00a0 Four generations later, family members are still running the company, which has grown to become a Milwaukee institution with a national reputation, in fact, Usinger’s hot dogs were the official supplier to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake. \u00a0That’s recognition!<\/p>\n

Usinger’s makes a wide variety of smoked and fresh sausages, in addition to deli meats. \u00a0 Their hot dogs are described by many as “the best in the nation”, and received that accolade also in a 1984 book called “The Book of Bests<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

If you can’t get to the Upper Midwest, then just type in the URL<\/a>, press click, and enjoy these great products at home.<\/p>\n

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I wrote a bit about Usinger\u2019s the other day.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the rest of the story, as I prepare to dig into their natural casing \u201cOld World Recipe\u201d wieners.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty straightforward ingredients with these pups,\u00a0 beef and pork,\u00a0 water, spices, sugar,\u00a0 salt, paprika, and a couple of the sodiums as a preservative, in a natural lamb… Continue reading Usinger’s Meats – Milwaukee, Wisconsin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11,15,16,34,26],"tags":[1812,2279,2407,3122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}