Jody Maroni's - San Francisco, CA

Jody Maroni's Sausage Kingdom - Home of the Haut Dog - is another stand in the food court of Westfield San Francisco Centre. (See previous post for another food court option.) Here is what they say about themselves:

When Jody Maroni started the sausage revolution, there was no such thing as gourmet sausage, no Chicken Apple sausage with Sherry, no Yucatan with Cilantro or Smoked Pomegranate Sausage. Sausage was basic and boring and truly unimaginative. Jody Maroni changed all of that.

Born at the carnival known as the Venice Beach Boardwalk, Jody Maroni, the Sausage King, has been hawking his handmade family recipe gourmet sausages since the Summer of ’79 when he first fired up his barbecue and delighted all who passed by with his constant banter and deliciously unusual concoctions. He called them “haut dogs” because they were finer and fancier than any other sausage on the planet, and he made them with chicken and duck and lamb and pork and added in all kinds of natural flavorings such as cilantro, oranges, tangerines, figs, corn and apples. Some of them even had beer or tequila for additional flavor and moisture. He gave them names of the places he had visited or dreamed about like Yucatan, Morocco, Bombay, Louisiana and Cuba.