All of us at Excalibur Seasoning are incredibly proud of the following customers who went home with some nifty hardware following this year’s American Cured Meat Championships at AAMP in Charleston, South Carolina.

GRAND CHAMPIONS

Frankfurters/Wieners: Coarse Ground: Merindorf Meats, Mason, Michigan
Ham – Bone-in (Lightweight): Eickman’s Processing, Seward, Illinois
Ham – Boneless (Commercial): Bardine’s Country Smokehouse, Crabtree, Pennsylvania
Jerky – Restructured: Schmidt’s Meat Market, Nicollet, Minnesota
Jerky – Whole Muscle: Merindorf Meats, Merindorf, Michigan
Luncheon Meat – Large Diameter: Louie’s Finer Meats, Cumberland, Wisconsin (Lebanon Bologna)
Meat Snack Sticks: Jerome Country Market, Jerome, Michigan
Meat Snack Sticks – Flavored: Bardine’s Country Smokehouse, Crabtree, Pennsylvania (Beef Stick with Cheese)
Old World Dried Fermented Sausage: Louie’s Finer Meats, Cumberland, Wisconsin (Soppressata)
Semi-Dried Sausage (Cooked, Non-Fermented): Newhall Locker & Processing, Newhall, Iowa
Specialty Flavor Small Diameter Smoked/Cooked Sausage: Tulare Meat Locker & Sausage Co., Tulare, California
Specialty Game Meats: Tommy G’s Meat & Sausage, Fairbanks, Arkansas (Reindeer Cotto Salami)
Summer Sausage – Cooked: Tulare Meat Locker & Sausage Co., Tulare, California
2023 Featured Class: Specialty Loaf Product: Newhall Locker & Processing, Newhall, Iowa