Kreuz Market offers all their best items by mailorder through their website, including the inevitable commemorative items like hats and shirts. You can order pork chops, ribs, sausage and their beef selections, pre-cooked and shipped overnight ready for reheating. The sausage actually tastes even better reheated a few days later. There's a reason why Rick Schmidt could afford to give up the old location and build this enormous barbeque palace. Kreuz's is arguably the best barbeque in the world and they know it, and have seen it confirmed by the success of their mailorder business. Most barbeque places are doing great if they have one item on the menu which can stand on its own without sauce and truly tastes great, or several items which have good, solid taste. Kreuz's boasts exceptional chops, pork ribs and truly marvelous sausage, and none of their other items is less than good in its own right. If you can't get to Lockhart, order some Kreuz sausage right now and you won't be disappointed.

Copyright 2005, Dave Nalle - from his forthcoming book Central Texas Barbeque and Beyond