Still hate mustard.
Mods pull if you wish.
You lived in Wisconsin and you’re not talking about cheese?
Love brats, lived in min close to cheese land. Had brats all the time.
“...and fell in love with sauerkraut.”
Try sprinkling a little brown sugar on the sauerkraut while it’s sauteing in the skillet. I learn that trick from the fellow who ran a popular hot dog stand in Boothbay Harbor.
I’m not real big on brats. I find them to be rather bland. I absolutely love kielbasa.
And yeah, sauerkraut is da bomb! Ever tried it on mashed potatoes?
I moved to Wisconsin from Georgia 14 years ago. I’ll never have a regular hot dog again.
Brats are good. Weisswurst is the bomb. Veal and pork.
Johnsonville Brats in this house. :)
I wish I could acquire the taste, but never have. (My dogs love it and it’s great when giving them pills).
Food vanities are good. They keep things balanced. Keep working on the mustard thing. Try a good Düsseldorfer.
How could you eat a Brat without Mustard?
I make my own so I can get the spices JUST RIGHT.
I often buy Johnsonville products. I’ll have to try their brats🤨
Brats are real big around Cincinnati. Nothing like a beer and a brat with plenty of kraut and mustard at the ballpark.
Food posts are among the most popular on Free Republic. They’re a nice break especially in times like these. Keep ‘em coming!
I like food threads. They make a nice change from the never-ending doom porn and Ukraine-Russia vitriol.
When people have differences of opinion on these threads they are usually fairly civil to one another, and sometimes I even learn something.
Ah, the great German restaurants featuring German beef rouladen und various wursts...with sides of sauerkraut, warm German potato salad, homemade chunky apple sauce, homemade rye bread, topped off mit a slice of homemade German Blitz Torte.
Then driving over to the regular evening orchestra concert held outdoors on the water's-edge of Lake Michigan....featuring Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, of course.
Thence to a nice motel toting our bags of cheeses and sausages to take home with us the next day.
Heaven on earth!
If you're from Milwaukee, you ought to know !
Leni
When you fry your brats, after they are done, you put them in a kettle of hot beer and serve them from there.
Then, you put them on a hard roll hamburger bun (two at a time) load them up and down them. With a beer.
East central Wisconsin had the best. I lived about two miles from Johnsonville for several years. Went to many a wedding dance at Laacks hall there and on Sunday after church we would stop in and have a few beers and listen to the elders talk German-low German.
My first wife and I had our wedding reception at Laacks hall. The Reinhardt Geadke band was the band we had.
Cheesehead here.
I find the average (Johnsonville for instance) brat to be gross. Can’t eat ‘em, not for about 20 years. I know most people like them just fine.
I found a place in Lake Geneva that makes high quality homemade brats.
A relative with a home on the lake served them off the grill at our annual get-together a few years ago.
The next time we went to Lake Geneva we took a cooler and went to the place they got them from.
Lake Geneva Country Meats is their name.
The cherry brat was my favorite.
"Bratwurst" is, after all, just a blanket term for a whole spectrum of fried sausages.
I go through phases where I prefer one variety of sausage for a while, before tiring of them. Used to be Nürnberger Bratwürste. Am now "into" Bockwürste.
Regards,
Brats are a way of life in WI.
When you do fund raisers for various charities there they are never hamburgers and hotdogs.. they are Brat Fries.
See them in parking lots all summer long in small towns across wisconsin... the Jaycees, or Kiwanis or whatever organization you will will have their folding tables and grill out cooking away. Can you get a hotdog or hamburger instead? Usually they do have them too.. but there is no doubt Brats are the star of the show.
Brat’s will always be tied to my Grandfather, that and Braunschweiger... among other things.
Miss that old man.