Take goetta, for example. Originally a traditional German breakfast sausage, it is made with pork, beef, steel-cut oats and herbs and spices. In the city of Cincinnati, it’s widely available in several different varieties, and there’s even a yearly festival that draws tens of thousands to celebrate the product. Outside of Cincinnati…
“You can go 25 miles outside of the city, and people have never heard of it,” comments Daniel Glier, president of Glier’s Meat Inc., headquartered in Covington, Ky. “Within greater Cincinnati, there’s a huge acceptance for the product, largely through the efforts of Glier’s to make the product not disappear. There are some traditional sausages where there wasn’t enough demand for them, and the product disappears off the market.”