I have a place I take my game meat to, and every time I do it comes out perfect. No variation between batches, as these folks have it down. Northwest Sausage and Deli is great.

Every time I take my sausage someplace else, it doesn't work out. Either they screw with me, or it just doesn't turn out the way I like it. One time I gave them my meat scraps during the deer season and after 3 weeks I called, said it would be another 2 weeks. We played this game for a while, when finally 6 months later he said he'd have half of it ready by the weekend. I told him where he could put the sausage, and I never picked it up.

This year I had set aside some elk scraps in case I wanted to do something different, and I found a place that does my favorite sausage, Land Jaeger. I bought a pound from the store, and it was great. A few weeks later I tried another batch, also great.

I took in 52 pounds of scrap a week or so ago and had them make me some. Spent $200 on the processing, and it looked great! Took a taste, and it was nothing at all like what I had tried. The mouth feel (texture) was perfect, looked great, but it just didn't taste anything like their retail product. I know that game meat has a different taste, but the difference wasn't due to that. Not going to trash them publicly, so don't bother.

Anybody want about 50 pounds of Land Jaeger, free? I'll deliver bewteen Aberdeen and McCleary.