St. Joseph Slaton Sausage Festival

St. Joseph Slaton Sausage Festival is an annual event held by St. Joseph Catholic Church and St. Joseph Catholic School in Slaton, Texas. The event began in 1969, making the 2011 festival the parish's 42nd. In addition to sausage, sauerkraut, German potato salad, homemade bread and cakes, the Sausage Festival features live and silent auctions, children's games, music, a quilting show, the Country Store, and raffles for quilts and a cedar chest. The festival provides nearly a third of St. Joseph Catholic School's budget, making it the largest fundraiser.
Each year, volunteers from the school and church make between seven and eight thousand pounds of sausage using equipment at Klemke's Sausage Haus in Slaton, Texas. The recipe was perfected in Germany nearly 200 years ago, and came over with one of the Slaton families. The first year of the Sausage Festival found the parishioners stuffing over 500 pounds of sausage by hand, in the St. Joseph's Parish Hall. Fast forward several decades to present day, and one will now find that the selection of sausage has expanded to include regular, jalapeno, and kickin' habanero
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