Regional sausage favorites can be found all over the United States. Wisconsin has bratwursts, and Louisiana has the Andouille. In central Nebraska, it was the Wahoo Wiener.

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.