This is an old time butcher shop with charm, or as much charm as a butcher shop can have. Whole hog and cow carcasses are rolled out of a refrigerator and made into roasts, chops, steaks, bacon, ground meat, bratwursts, mettwursts and sausage, practically before your eyes. Their bratwurst is one of the Top 100 Things To Eat In Iowa Before You Die. I've eaten plenty of those but we really go for the dried beef, mettwurst and caraway cheese. I've even been known to smuggle a package of frozen dried beef home in my suitcase!
There's also all manner of Dutch products including Droste cocoa, Queen Wilhelmina mints, pea soup mix, Dutch chocolates in the shape of windmills and wooden shoes and other Dutch candies.
If you stop by, you'll leave with an armful of goodies. If you don't stop by you'll miss one of the true treasures of Orange City. read more