my girlfriend has a cabin on sullivan lake and we stop in at theilens meats everytime we go up there. both the smoked salmon and bacon are amazing. we like their beef sticks too. this time around we got our usual plus some brats and steaks. love the service and the food is great!
The DOUBLE smoked bacon and ham–both whole and deli style sliced, are 2nd to none. And they make brats in a smaller diameter size that are great/better for in buns than the thicker more common size brats. Tough to beat Thielen’s, no doubt.
That said, the BEST garlic summer sausage I have ever run into is made by Schweiss’s Meat Market in Sleepy Eye Minnesota. I drive our venison 200 miles each way to get them to make the garlic summer sausage for us…and then 200 miles each way, again, to pick it up! LOL For many years running now…
And then there’s the potato sausage at Thielen’s!