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Blind Tasting frozen breakfast sausages with butcher Melanie Schoendorfer (Banquet, Jimmy Dean, Smithfield, Jones Dairy Farm)

Food, Blind TastingNicolas JimenezArietefood, Blind Tasted, Blind Tasting, review, Miami, Melanie Schoendorfer, Babe's Meat & Counter, grocery, food review, breakfast, sausage, Banquet, Brown 'N Serve, Jimmy Dean, Smithfield, meat, frozen food, cooking, Jones Dairy Farm
Blind Tasting frozen breakfast sausages with butcher Melanie Schoendorfer (Banquet, Jimmy Dean, Smithfield, Jones Dairy Farm)

Melanie Schoendorfer makes fresh breakfast sausages just about every day at Babe’s Meat & Counter, a Miami butcher and sandwich shop that, among many other things, produces its own sausages in house. Melanie — who owns and operates Babe’s with her husband Jason — joined us at the tasting table to try and rank five popular frozen breakfast sausages from Banquet (with two varieties of their Brown ‘N Serve sausages), Jimmy Dean, Smithfield, and Jones Dairy Farm.

Nicolás Antonio Jiménez is the founder of DADE. He’s always working through his rotation of writer, podcast host, podcast producer, photographer and editor hats.

A Miami native and graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, Nick’s background includes work in democracy promotion, human rights advocacy, content marketing and magazine journalism (most recently as senior editor of Cigar Snob).