I worked for 3 years in Walton's Customer Service department, I have probably spoken with a good deal of people visiting this page in one way or another! I am now working on content creation for waltonsinc.com and meatgistics.com.
Im originally from upstate New York and before I worked here I had never made homemade Sausage before. Now I love processing and the satisfaction that comes from eating or serving a well made homemade Snack Stick, Summer Sausage, Bratwurst, etc.
I try to eat healthily and we will do some posts about healthy options here but I am not a fanatic about it, what is the use of eating healthy if you can't occasionally eat 1 or 2 Brats, okay fine 4 or 5!!?
Austin and I talked about changing the name of the Walton’s Community to the Meatgistics Community, as this is your guys place to post recipes, tips & tricks, ask questions and just share your cooking or drinking experiences!
Well, it is now the Meatgistics Community so rejoice!
So, I took Thursday and Friday off from work! I needed it, needed a little bit of time away to try to recharge my battery a little and do some stuff around the house. I had been hoping to spend most of that time working on the house with my wife but her plant was plagued with issues, so we got to spend a little less time together than I had hoped. Ate too much, had a few drinks and slept in (7 am!) every day!
I have trouble doing nothing for more than a few hours and we wanted to do some upgrades to the house, so we decided to make up for not doing anything on the outside of the house for the last 2 years by redoing the front landscaping.
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Thank you for all you have done for this country and all you will be asked to do in the future! I have created the group US Veterans for anyone who wants to join, this way a badge will show on your posts. Sorry, we should have thought of creating this group years ago. We will have a 10% off coupon emailed to anyone who joins this group!
For everyone else, we rely on everyone’s honor to not claim something that isn’t yours.
Tex_77 1st, dont be ridiculous, Brutus is a 186 lb killing machine, who hides from loud noises like trucks, pots dropping and is also afraid of sewers and for sale signs. Riggins was a fighting dog before we got him so he deserves to be soft if he wants now!
Okay, Rachel has the upvote button disappearing when you have already clicked it, we toyed with it being highlighted in yellow but it didn’t look very good, so disappears when you upvote, then if you downvote it by mistake or something the upvote reappears and the downvote disappears. So, anyone see any questions on this in the next few weeks/months be sure to let them know what it means.
Hey guys, finally a few quick minutes away from what I have been working on and I wanted to let you guys know I heard from my brother Dr_Pain today. I know Chef posted about it recently but I don’t know if that thread went into detail about how wrongly things went after the initial success. My man has been SERIOUSLY sick for a while, a few times close to Death (his words) due to problems with the initial surgery.
The good news is that when they had to go back in they were able to make a change so it looks like he should heal and not need the bag in about 6 months. He said he was delerious with 103° fever for a few days. He said I appeared to him with wings of ivory and gold and told him that through sausage he shall find god…okay, that last bit isn’t true!
Ive got some things going for him but all in all I think he just wanted to let everyone know he is alright! If Chef has already updated all of you on this I apologize, this is only the 3rd time I have been able to log in all week, which sucks but is SO MUCH BETTER than what Claude has been going through. Things like this really help me concentrate on being thankful for my health!
For those of you who can’t come, this is what our booth looks like!
So, you might have noticed Austin and I have not been on Meatgistics for a few days. That is because we were furiously working behind the scenes to get the new version of waltons.com (waltonsinc.com still works but as of now we are waltons.com!) and hoping to launch it today. Sadly, we had a few issues with payment processing so we are not going live today. Austin and I are looking at next Tuesday now so we can have everything perfect for it. If the payment processing gets fixed early enough today we MIGHT go live tomorrow, but in all likelihood, we will hold off until Tuesday.
Couple of new features of the new waltons.com will be A) you can use multiple coupons sometimes, 2 10% off coupons wont work, butif we have a free shirt or hat coupon and you want to use that with your 10% off you will be able to do so. B) infinite shopping lists. This means you could potentially create all the shopping lists you want for the entire year and then just go through and place the order as needed. C) Better connection to videos and meatgistics content. I am sure there are others but I need to get back and work on getting it live!
.22 magnum Henry lever action quail forever gun!!
So, we finally got Brett Walton and Kurt Carter ( he has a Meatgistics account but I will let him keep that private for now!) to sit down and trade old Walton’s war stories! We went way way way over time, it is by far our longest podcast. We toyed with the idea of breaking it up but instead, we will release the entire thing tomorrow. We hope you guys enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it!
Dylan and I did 75 lb of sausage today. 1 batch of the Salami with some dry red wine added, one of the Pepperoni and 1 of Habanero BBQ, each one was 25 lb. On all of them, we used the Bactoferm TSP-X Starter Culture. We stuffed them into Beef Middles and put them into our eller cabinet. We are going to check tomorrow to make sure we have achieved the needed pH drop and then we buckle in for the long wait!
Dave in AZ Just to make sure we are talking about Willie's Snack Stick Seasoning which is the one without MSG. Ingredients are Salt, Corn Syrup Solids, Spices, and Dehydrated Garlic. according to the web, I went and checked the bag too and it has does have Citric Acid. I am confused as to why it would be in one and not the other. I also don’t know if it is enough Encapsulated Citric Acid to make it where we would want to avoid or adjust using more of it.
My guess is no, because there is at least one other seasoning with Citric Acid as a seasoning for taste and they have told us we don’t need to adjust for that but this one, as it has an MSG and non-MSG version I just don’t know. So, best thing to do is to ask Excalibur, I will update the post when I know!
bocephus I brought him in! He already made some Jalapeno Popper Sausage Habanero BBQ Snack Stick or Summer Sausage and we just made some whole muscle jerky. He seems sharp, picks things up quickly. Good addition so far!
JoeB I saw some pretty old school looking helmets on your mantle, was that a ferman ww2 helmet in the middle? It looks like the one Sgt Schultz wears in Hogans Heroes.
Deepwoodsbutcher fixed now, thanks!
bocephus it was nodeBB, they said they are strawberry guys and just hate raspberries! No, it had something to do with a file type that ended in asp but began with a . and they never made it so the asp without the . would be okay.
I just checked and believe it or not, we have NEVER had this problem before today, I guess that combination of letters isn’t that common? Grasp is the only other one that pops to mind right now, though I am sure there are a BUNCH of others
Raspberry seems to be blocking posts from creating when it is used in the title of a post. I swear sometimes life is too bizarre. I tested black raspberry and it wouldn’t post, tested black strawberry and it would, tested green raspberry and it won’t. So, I emailed NodeBB and we will see what they say but for now, lets keep that word out of titles. Also, 100% needs to be code word for something we don’t want to see now!
Guys something is going on with adding the phrase black raspberry to the titles of posts. It makes no sense! We are working on it!
Guys, I have seen some posts about Black Raspberries and none of them, even the ones that are asking why they cant be seen are showing up. I have ZERO clue why but we are looking into it and will report back with…something? It is probably that Black Raspberry is one of your spy code-names and you’ve managed to block it somehow. Looking at you PapaSop !