Schubert’s Packing

This place has the best beef smokies around, PERIOD! Many flavors to choose from too. I go here just for smokies and usually not much else. I used to live quite close and would stop in frequently. The beef summer sausage is just average at best, but not bad. I took some deer meat to have smokies made at Schuberts, and they were not as good as their on-​hand beef smokies. I have had their steaks and brats and they are really good. This place is quite expensive, but they do have quality products. 5 stars would have been granted if prices were a little more friendly. Lehr’s Market in New Athen’s, IL is the only place you should go to for deer processing. Best brats would be Schneider’s in Waterloo, IL. Schubert’s is a quality meat market with very good products.

Being a country girl, you know I like my homegrown meat, even more so when it comes all packed in that natural casing, oohh gurl!
I’ve been eating these little smokey sausages since I can remember. They’re about 6 inches long, an inch wide, and are the best after you let’em dry up for awhile inside that white butcher paper in your fridge. Let me tell you, these gone be the best little Illinois meat sticks you ever ate, if you ever head that way.
I’ve never been to visit the birthplace of heaven’s own meat stick until this, my All Americuhan weekend. Schuberts packing company gives you all the small town meat shop experience you could ever dream for. The breezeway bulletin board’s got loads of ads for meat shoots, gun swaps, and farm equipment and animal sales. After you bust through that fence, you get hit with all the linked and hanging sausages, slabs, tubes, bones and sides of raw animal flesh that you can handle, with the added bonus of a stuffed black bear peaking out the corner and scaring the crap out of you.
We got the requisite smokies and decided to try out the apple brats. And, lo, that moment shall be set forth as The Time We Found the Best Bratwurst in Americuh. With a taste and smell that is more than the usual greased and grilled meat mash, The Apple Brat is the Beacon of the Bun.
Apple Brat’s innards are not so packed in there that you feel like you’re biting into a meat cake. This Apple Angel is fluffy and light with a casing that crisps right up over an open flame. Even rarer, is the lack of pits. Any meat lover knows how spectacular the thought of a pitless brat is. Schubert’s has several other varieties of brats and saus to pick from. Next time, I’m gunning for that chorizo, it looked so spicy fresh!
Oh, and there was a plate of tongues. Gray spotted, skin on. Lickey! Lickey!