A part of every trip I take for Independent Processor is the gamble that I can actually find the meat company in question, armed with my notoriously lousy sense of direction and a GPS that occasionally thinks I’ve driven off the road when I’m on an interstate. In the case of Wahoo Locker, it was pretty easy to find. Just look for the massive, 40-foot-long green awning that says “HOME OF THE FAMOUS WAHOO WIENER.”
It wasn’t always that way for Wahoo Locker. After walking through the spacious store and its large coolers, I went next door to the former location, which was destroyed in a fire in 2013. Charlie Emswiler had warned me about how small it was, and he wasn’t kidding. It would have been difficult to have four or five shoppers in the retail area at once, to say nothing of a crowd of Nebraska football fans on the way to Lincoln for a game.