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In the year 2000, I grilled bratwursts in Tuscaloosa
Posted on 9/12/18 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 9/12/18 at 2:18 pm
I was in my 20s, working a new job. One Friday not long after I got there, I invited about half a dozen co-workers over for grilling and beer.
I said I would stop at Bruno’s to pick up some stuff to grill. Being a proud rural Missourian, and son of a pig farmer, I was surprised at the store’s poor selection of grilling sausages. But I grabbed a couple of packs of brats and headed home.
Everyone who said they would show up did - we stayed up drinking in my yard till 4 am. Some of these people are still my good friends. But I couldn’t get them to eat even a single bratwurst.
I share this story because I think of it every time I see a Johnsonville ad on the Rant. Is Johnsonville’s ad campaign just throwing money away because people in the Deep South don’t grill sauasages? Or is it a great idea, going after an untapped market?
Help me kill the time till 5.
I said I would stop at Bruno’s to pick up some stuff to grill. Being a proud rural Missourian, and son of a pig farmer, I was surprised at the store’s poor selection of grilling sausages. But I grabbed a couple of packs of brats and headed home.
Everyone who said they would show up did - we stayed up drinking in my yard till 4 am. Some of these people are still my good friends. But I couldn’t get them to eat even a single bratwurst.
I share this story because I think of it every time I see a Johnsonville ad on the Rant. Is Johnsonville’s ad campaign just throwing money away because people in the Deep South don’t grill sauasages? Or is it a great idea, going after an untapped market?
Help me kill the time till 5.
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 2:24 pm to RaleighTiger
Does the deep South dislike brats?
I freaking love them.
I freaking love them.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 2:27 pm to RaleighTiger
We only eat Conecuh sausage in Alabama. The Bruno's sold it.
Brats are for yankees.
Brats are for yankees.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 2:30 pm to Open Dore Policy
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Does the deep South dislike brats?
These 6 Alabamians did. I was shocked.
This ranks up there for me with the time I asked for pimento cheese in a Boston supermarket and no one knew what it was. It was so ubiquitous when I was growing up. I didn’t know it was a regional food.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 2:31 pm to RaleighTiger
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, I was surprised at the store’s poor selection of grilling sausages
It is a bit weird. You would think with all the pork in BBQ sausage would be big in the south, but it just isnt. Maybe its an European ethnic thing for the midwest and Northeast
Posted on 9/12/18 at 2:53 pm to RaleighTiger
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people in the Deep South don’t grill sauasages
I grew up in Louisiana and we grilled sausage all the time
Posted on 9/12/18 at 3:00 pm to RTN
quote:Ditto here plus I've lived in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama.
I grew up in Louisiana and we grilled sausage all the time
Brats, Links, Red Hots and the like have always been on the grilling menu at my house.....especially during Football Season.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 3:07 pm to RaleighTiger
I love brats, but Spleen is right. Alabamians usually grill the local Conecuh sausage.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 3:41 pm to RaleighTiger
I had no idea pimento cheese was regional either.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 5:26 pm to Open Dore Policy
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I had no idea pimento cheese was regional either.
This is news to me.
Who doesn't grill sausage?
Posted on 9/12/18 at 5:34 pm to Open Dore Policy
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I had no idea pimento cheese was regional either.
When my wife and I met (she was 29 and I was 30) she had never eaten pimento cheese or biscuits and gravy. She's from Pennsylvania.
She is now obsessed with pimento cheese, and is partial to this recipe. It includes a splash of bourbon.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 7:08 pm to RaleighTiger
Hell yeah baw, grilling brats is part of our standard fare when we Que chicken or burgers.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 7:43 pm to RTN
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I grew up in Louisiana and we grilled sausage all the time
Yeah but get outside of LA and try and find a good boudin.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:12 pm to RaleighTiger
I ate tons of andouille, boudin and other sausages. They were cooked a few different ways, including grilled.
I never heard of or ate bratwursts until I went to Bayern; at which time it was promptly added to the list of shite I enjoy cramming into my face.
I never heard of or ate bratwursts until I went to Bayern; at which time it was promptly added to the list of shite I enjoy cramming into my face.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:24 pm to RaleighTiger
lifetime arkansan here and I love brats.
johnsonville spicy
johnsonville spicy
Posted on 9/13/18 at 4:24 am to hawgfaninc
There was an old Abbey full of German monks in NW AR who made their own sausage. Some damn good eating.
Posted on 9/13/18 at 2:41 pm to RaleighTiger
Conecuh Sausage from Evergreen AL. Get some.
Posted on 9/13/18 at 5:08 pm to RaleighTiger
I mean I'm not Italian but I can frick with a spicy Italian sausage with peppers and onions
Posted on 9/13/18 at 5:43 pm to RTN
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I grew up in Louisiana
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Alabama fan
Posted on 9/13/18 at 5:46 pm to Draconian Sanctions
He likes winners.
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