From the Dairy Godmother comes news of an upcoming Brat Night:

Greetings!

How about a brat night with better weather? This Sunday,April 19th from 6pm until 8pm should be just that!

We’ve got Klements brats of racing sausages fame,German potato salad,sauerkraut with apples as well as all the rest of the treats and sweets.

Paul Pzedpelski will be on the accordion and sometimes his friends show up. There’s a little accordion player in all of us,I guess.

As last time,we will be clearing the shop for 15 minutes from 5:45 until 6pm. We need that time to set up for dinner.

This will be the last brat night until next spring so hope to see you!

Sincerely,

The Dairy Godmother(and everyone else)!

The Dairy Godmother is located in Del Ray (2310 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22301). We never make it to brat night, maybe this time we’ll get there!

The Dairy Godmother, an Alexandria, Virginia institution, is hosting Brat Night on March 15th. The details haven’t been disclosed yet, so you’ll have to check their website later in the week. As part of the meatblogging team will be in Austin for SXSW over the next week, we’re going to rely on you to give us a report on the Brat Night action.

Epicurious reports on the World’s Largest Brat Festival, which was held on May 25th in Wisconsin.

189,432 bratwursts were consumed at the Brat Fest, a Brat Fest record. That means about 98 brats were eaten every minute (which clearly means some people weren’t doing their fair share of brat eating). That amounts to 37,886 lbs. of brats, 211.23 miles of brats.

I’ll leave you to your thoughts in that one. (And, yes, like all good human interest stories, this one does have a marriage proposal).

I can’t believe I almost forgot about Brat Night at The Dairy Godmother!

The Dairy Godmother is Del Ray’s beloved frozen custard shop, but once a month they have Brat Night. (The Wisconsin accents are so thick there on Brat Night you can practically cut ‘em with a knife).

When I got the latest Dairy Godmother email, I was a little confused:

Sunday,March 9th 6-9

Featuring Paul Aebersold on the accordion, Brats by Klements of the famous Miller Stadium racing sausages!

Side dishes are German potato salad(vegetarian version available as well as Vegi-brats),Sauerkraut cooked with apples and brown sugar.They are available al la carte for$ 1.59 each. Brats are $3.19 each.

We will begin serving promptly at 6pm and not a minute before so don’t bother getting here early!

I didn’t know what Racing Sausages were, so, with a little trepidation, I googled “racing sausages.” Luckily, without incident.

First, I checked the Klements website. Oh my. There are sausages. And they race.

The Milwaukie Brewers racing sausage website even speaks of inter-food rivalries:

“With this success naturally come the imitators. There is a heated competition that exists between the Racing Sausages and the Pittsburgh Pierogies. Under intense media scrutiny and public debate, these two parties finally raced. Not to boast, but let’s just say the Sausages have an early lead in race victories since this feud began.”

There is, of course, a wikipedia entry on the subject as well.

Honestly, I’m only interested in the frozen custard. And maybe one of Liz’s homemade marshmallows, since I was too lazy to make my own the other night. But I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you I find the idea of people racing while dressed as sausages deeply amusing.