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Jimmy Dean® is expanding its Jimmy D’s breakfasts to include the new Pancake Griddlers.

Sausage may have the dollar menu at McDonald’s to thank for its resilience last year. Savvy breakfast eaters could find sausage biscuits, burritos and McMuffins at their local drive-throughs, and other fast-food and quick-serve restaurants (QSR) — including a surprising rebound from pizza restaurants — offered more low-priced options.

When manufacturing sausage products we essentially do four things; comminute meat (comminute is a fancy word for reduction in particle size i.e. grinding, flaking, dicing or chopping), season the product, manipulate proteins and shape the product. How we perform these four activities produces the wide variety of sausage products available.

There is no doubt that Chicago still is very much a meat-processing town, as dozens of companies make their home in the Windy City. Those processors carry on a tradition

Anyone who makes jokes about sausages being of questionable origin hasn’t looked at a grocery store or restaurant lately. There’s no mystery meat to be found in in the current generation of sausages.

Hope certainly was a word being tossed around quite liberally at the turn of 2009 but it doesn’t appear that any high hopes materialized too much in regard to the sausage industry. Sure, dollar sales were up 3 to 4 percent across the three segments tracked by Information Resources Inc.

One cannot spend a day at Johnsonville Sausage, LLC, among its employees, and not learn the ins and outs of The Johnsonville Way.