Bacon Wrapped Cheddar Jalapeño Sausage Slammers

Bacon-wrapped sausage stuffed with jalapenos and cheddar cheese. They start with a fresh Jalapeño half, stuff it with real Cheddar Cheese, then wrap it in Southside’s house-made Pork Sausage. It’s then all tied up in Bacon and smoked low and slow over real Texas post oak wood – the Sausage Slammer! Flavorful enough to be the main course, or slice them to serve as an unforgettable appetizer!

“Butcher today, deliver tomorrow.” That was Southside Market’s mantra in 1882 when the first cuts of meat were sold from founder William Moon’s wagon. Without refrigeration, the unsold fresh cuts of meat were preserved by smoking and, in true German tradition, spiced to make sausages. It wasn’t long before these “hot guts” became famous, with people all over coming to Elgin, Texas, to sample their smoked sausages. The decades rolled by and while Southside Market’s owners changed, their dedication to crafting the best sausages in Texas did not, which is why nearly a century and a half since that first cut of meat was sold, Elgin is known as the Sausage Capital of Texas.