Kreuz Market
Address:
619 S Colorado St, Lockhart, TX 78644
Phone:
(512) 398-2361
Cuisine:
BBQ
Other Details:
Kreuz Market was started in 1900 by Charles Kreuz as a meat market and grocery store. To prevent wasting meat by letting it spoil, most markets would cook the better cuts on barbecue pits and use the lesser cuts to make sausage. Customers would buy their barbecue and sausage (which was wrapped in butcher paper), then buy some items from the grocery store to go along with it, and eat it off the butcher paper with their hands and a pocket knife with NO SAUCE. Charles passed the business along to his sons and son-in-law who ran it until 1948, when Edgar Schmidt, who had worked there since 1936, bought the market from the Kreuz's. In the 1960's, Edgar closed the grocery store and kept some of the more popular "side items" for the barbecue restaurant, such as crackers, bread, pickles, onions, cheese, and other familiar items on the Kreuz menu today
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