NEWELL—The community was invited to try unique brat flavors, from French onion to mac and cheese, cooked up by Midwestern Meat Locker on Monday, May 25.
The warm, sunny weather, paired with a variety of unique brat flavors, drew local folks to the park to enjoy good food, cold drinks and each other’s company. Offerings included French onion beef brats, mac and cheese pork brats, beef Philly brats, mushroom and Swiss beef brats and Holiday ham pork brats, along with brownies and lemon bars for dessert.
The idea for the free lunch came from business owner Ryan Dennis. “I’ve wanted to kind of do a little community event for a long time, and we’ve been kind of collecting some of these different flavors that we haven’t really put out to the public yet—I just seen a bunch of them and I was like why don’t we just throw them out there and we’ll do a cookout and invite the public and just try to have a good time—seemed like a good thing to do,” he explained.
After Dennis announced the free brats event, he wasn’t sure what the turnout would be like. “I’m ecstatic—honestly, I didn’t think that we would get more than a dozen people that weren’t either employees or friends of employees,” he shared. “It’s been a great turnout. We’ve just about cooked up everything that we had!”
The business owner likes doing events for the community. Midwestern Meat Locker did a similar event during the Labor Day celebration last year; they hosted a cookout. “We’re gonna try and do that again this year. I would like to work with the Economic Development Group and we’re trying to set up maybe two or three of these things every year. We’ll see how that pans out, but I would like to see that happen,” said Dennis.
The meat locker is a veteran-owned business that is a custom-only locker. “We have a retail space up front, we sell box meat, we do all our own broth, we do bacon, we do ham, we got nine different flavors of snack sticks, two or three different flavors of summer sausage and jerky,” said Dennis.
The store also makes charcuterie trays and will have gift boxes available for Father’s Day. Come in and grab your dad some delicious snacks!
If you haven’t had a chance to stop by this meat locker and see what they have for sale, now is a good time to do it! If you want more information about any of their products, it is best to stop by the store in person or send an email. Store hours are Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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