Ross shows off their wares in the Southside Market store; all the sausage is smoked on the premises.

Unsmoked sausage in natural casing, ready to go home with you.

Elgin's famous hot sauce -- it's a vinegar based sauce that separates so you have to shake it up real good. Killer stuff.

The deer room -- lots of taxidermy here. You can't quite make it out in that blurry iPhone photo but that's a bobcat springing off the second to last column. I think one deer was staring at me the whole time I ate.

Mmmmm... meat.

Turducken is for wusses -- real foodies eat chicken stuffed with jambalaya. You can almost hear me salivating in this picture.

This is where the magic happens. Or maybe it's where you order your food. I get them confused sometimes.

He's dry-rubbing chickens before they go in the smoker.

That's a lot of meat. At least we had pickles and crackers to keep us honest. And yes, it's all served on butcher paper. Dig in.

Addendum: that is one happy fellow.

Sean here is our CEO and founder, the guy who thought of pancake batter in a can, and actually saw it through from development to production to where we are now -- 10,000 stores and counting. That's him behind the can.

And here's Madeleine Jr., Sean's little girl and our mascot. You can tell it's her in most photos as she's probably eating off the floor.

Sandy manages the office and answers your calls. Sandy likes the jam bands -- she probably has a Phish song in her head right now. Spatulas make a lovely Christmas tree ornament

Sarah and Chris take care of logistics, making sure that the trucks are on time and your local grocery store always has plenty of Batter blaster. Chris demonstrates, Sarah listens

Bass runs sales for Batter Blaster. You can tell his office by the sound of Neil Peart drum solos. That's a magic spatula

Nick here is our COO. He likes both kinds of music, country and western. Crawling under desks is an actual job duty.

Meet the newest addition to BB, Chef. She's 8 weeks old.