By Brenda Erdahl
In case you missed it, The Butchery of Maple Lake made the news last week as part of a Fox 9 segment on the Minnesota Twins “rally sausage.”
As most know, baseball players are famously superstitious and the sausage was being credited with the Twins 12-game winning streak that unfortunately came to an end on Sunday, May 5 with a 9-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox.
Butchery owner Doug Lindenfelser said Fox 9 sports reporter Jim Rich called him on Tuesday, April 30 to ask if he’d be interested in taking part in what Lindenfelser described as a “cornball story” on the Twins newest lucky charm, a summer sausage that players were reportedly taping their bats against for good luck before stepping up to the plate.
During the segment the question had come up as to whether someone might get sick if they tried to eat the sausage which had been toted around from game to game without refrigeration.
“He (Rich) told me the background of the rally sausage and said it would be fun to tie in how summer sausage is really made… he was trying to have some fun with it and kinda validate whether summer sausage that was laying around for quite a while was healthy to eat. I wouldn’t have eaten it. It looked horrible,” Lidenfelser said.
Doug Lindenfelser, owner of The Butchery of Maple Lake was interviewed last week by Fox 9’s Jim Rich about the Minnesota Twins “rally sausage.”