For more than a hundred years, artisanal handmade pork wieners have been a Southern Indiana tradition. Years ago, a company called Wenning's produced hot dogs by the ton, and shipped them all over the region. In the early 1980s, Gary Wolf of Wolf's Meat Market — a name dear to hearts of carnivorous New Albanians — took over the recipe.
Meanwhile, out in Palmyra, Ind., a town that toted up 633 people during the last census, Scott Trowbridge was carving out a reputation for hand-cut and freshly ground meats at Allen's Supermarket, a half-century-old store that drew shoppers from far afield.
But when it came to pork wieners, Trowbridge was clueless: "Customers would come in all the time asking for them, and I didn't know what the heck they were talking about."
After several years of wandering in the wilderness, he came upon Wolf's storied wieners, and bought 20 pounds for his meat case. The next day they were gone.
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