Next Stop: Elgin
>> our journey along the texas bbq trail continues. today we head for elgin which has to be known as the sausage capital of texas. let’s find out why. this is a town of about 10,000 people located about 19 miles east of austin. founded in 1861 as a railroad stop, and it was later renamed after the railroad’s commissioner, robert elgin. and i have to be honest with you, my mouth is watering already. >> welcome, how can i help you? do you want the entre, or the plate? okay, next, please? >> bbq has been in the family for let’s just say quite some time. >> my grandfather and his wife moved in here in the 30′s and they bought a cafe and bought a little convenience store, the rock front grocery and his father had tught him how to make sausage, he emigrated from germany in the 1880′s and he started making sausage in a dirt poor smoke house out back and people loved it and said you need to sell
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