In 1945, Ralph F. and Alice Stayer opened up a butcher shop with another family and named it after their Wisconsin hometown – Johnsonville. Little did they know that their venture would lay the foundation for an iconic brand loved worldwide.

Experience a burst of authentic flavor with Johnsonville All-Natural Mild Italian Sausage. Made with only premium cuts of pork and a perfect blend of fresh herbs and spices, no nitrates or corn syrup.

They're made with only premium cuts of pork and seasoned with a secret blend of herbs and spices, delivering a juicy, robust flavor. Perfect for summer cookouts, Johnsonville Original Brats are easy to grill and taste great in a variety of recipes as well! Cook 'em low and slow!

Pork is chopped and blended with spices, curing salts, phosphates and other functional ingredients, and then formed and sliced. This industry-first product looks and cooks like bacon, but it's sausage. Unlike traditional pork bacon, these strips are fully cooked.

Sausage can be defined as a food prepared from comminuted (particle size reduction) and seasoned meat formed into various symmetrical shapes in which the products differ primarily in the variety of spices used and the different processing methods applied.

Sausages are thought to have originated in Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago, in at least 3,100 BCE, with the earliest evidence being discovered in Sumeria. Since then, many different kinds of sausage have been invented as a way of preserving meat by mixing it with salt and various herbs and spices.

So how is the sausage. Made so it all starts of course in the in the stuffing. Area where they stuff the product and then we will bring it out into these smoking department.

Anyway, most sausage is made up of minced/ground meat (usually pork, but you can make it with any meat), a binder (usually rusk, sometimes rice flour in gluten free versions), water, and seasonings.

Ralph and Alice Stayer Founded in 1945, by Ralph and Alice Stayer, when they opened a butcher shop and named it after their hometown community of Johnsonville, Wisconsin, it is one of the largest sausage producers in the United States and the largest sausage brand by revenue in the United States.

pork Most sausage is made from pork, but it can be made out of just about any animal. The real secret behind making delicious sausage is in the addition of pork fat. A) Because it's delicious and provides flavor. B) Because it transforms the texture of the ground meat into a supple and moist product.

Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin Johnsonville is a sausage company headquartered in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.

Ingredients: Pork, water, and less than 2% of the following: salt, potassium lactate, spices, sugar, natural flavor, vinegar, sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite.