Hillshire Farm is a brand of meat

Meat

Meat is animal flesh that is used as food. Most often, this means the skeletal muscle and associated fat and other tissues, but it may also describe other edible tissues such as organs and offal...

 product

Product (business)

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s marketed and owned by Sara Lee. The company was founded in 1934, and was purchased by Sara Lee in 1971. Friedrich (Fritz) Bernegger, born in Austria

Austria

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, started the business at the facility in New London, Wisconsin

New London, Wisconsin

New London is a city in Outagamie and Waupaca Counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 7,295 at the 2010 census. The city has a Saint Patrick's Day Parade, Irish Fest, and week-long festivities, when the city's name is changed to "New Dublin" for the week. The American Water...

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Hillshire Farm's primary product is smoked sausage and Polska kielbasa

Kielbasa

Kielbasa, kołbasa, kobasa, kovbasa, kobasa, kobasi, and kubasa are common North American anglicizations for a type of Eastern European sausage. Synonyms include Polish sausage, Ukrainian sausage, etc...

. The brand introduced smoked sausages to much of the general population of the US as a supermarket food and a nationally advertised food. Hillshire Farm sausages are about two feet long and horseshoe shaped. Currently, Hillshire Farm offers 10 varieties of these sausages.

Other products

• "Lit'l Smokies", a line of bite-sized smoked sausages
• 40 kinds of deli-sliced meat for sandwiches
• summer sausage
  Summer sausage
  Summer sausage is any sausage that can be kept without refrigeration. Summer sausage is usually a mixture of pork and other meat such as beef or venison. Summer sausage can be dried or smoked, and while curing ingredients vary significantly, curing salt is almost always used...
  
  , mostly found during the holidays
• 10 different hams. All are traditional bone-in hams with five varieties, either unsliced or spiral sliced