Hillshire Farm, Jewel, Roscoe Village, Chicago
I don’t normally see Hillshire Farm sausage in the stores much in Chicago so when I saw shelves and shelves of it at Jewel last month, I took notice. My dad has worked at Hillshire for something like 30 years so I have a preference for their brand. Not only did they have all this sausage in all different varieties, but they were buy one, get one free. I stocked up a bit.
The sausages on the bottom and on the right.. in the loop shape.. what do you call them? Growing up we called them ring bologna, but it doesn’t seem like people here know what that is. I also think I remember that when we were kids there was an actual metal piece that connected the two ends? We grilled one of the turkey ring bolognas recently and there wasn’t anything connecting them. I guess the suctioned plastic wrapper keeps it in a loop now.
The cheddarwurst. What I wouldn’t have given for those 5 years ago… although I did smuggle some cheddarwurst from Wisconsin to Brooklyn shortly after.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Dad // Sep 21, 2008 at 10:29 am
oh my, you never work at Hillshire and it shows! ha ! Ring Bologna was a single ring tied with a metal clip, you are correct. All the rest is rope sausage. It’s looped evenly on a long metal ^ shaped rod and hung on huge racks to be pushed into the smoke rooms to “smoke” them and when finished they just cut the top and it gives you the loops without a clip.
2 Agnes // Sep 21, 2008 at 4:36 pm
My dad used to slice up the ring kielbasa and make it with scrabled eggs. Those were the best Sunday mornings.
3 Beanie // Sep 21, 2008 at 7:43 pm
We called that sausage Polish Sausage or Kielbasa
4 smussyolay // Sep 22, 2008 at 12:42 pm
yep. ring bologna. my mom would fry it up or some such thing. it’s always so weird when i think of things like that. such WI stuff.
like when i talk about st. nick’s or something.
5 RachelleB // Sep 23, 2008 at 9:06 am
we didn’t have st nicks.
6 smussyolay // Sep 23, 2008 at 1:32 pm
really? i’m beginning to think i lived in a weird part of WI. SE WI is the norweigian/german/polish scene (which i always assume is ALL WI), and we definitely did st. nick’s. you’re familiar with the concept, though?
boot/stocking/candy/cmas sort of thing?
7 Richard // Sep 24, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I always thought St. Nick’s was a Catholic thing, we were Lutherans.
8 J. Schultz // Nov 10, 2008 at 2:28 am
How long will Hillshire Farm Cheddar wurst last if refrigerated?
I Love it so does my boxer but I bought some in Sept, planning on eating it and it just sat in its zippy bag I bought it in. It looks good will it be ok?
9 Darrell // Dec 8, 2008 at 11:37 am
what hapened to your knockwurst? no one carrys it around here any more.(Kingman AZ) I ate enough of it to keep you in busness then it just vanished.
thanks Darrell
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