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More than almost anything else, food has the ability to transport us – conjure up memories, and places, far behind us. when customers stop in at Dirk Muller\u2019s sausage shop, they\u2019re not just looking for a piece of meat – but a piece of home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never been here before,\u201d said customer Christina Runyon, \u201cBut I was born in Germany, in Stuttgart, and I came here looking for something specific, something I\u2019ve never found in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Many of the people who frequent Muller\u2019s small shop off of Franklin Boulevard, have found that \u201csomething\u201d in Muller\u2019s European outpost. Surrounded by Mexican superstores, the small shop is filled by its single continuous deli counter, which is stuffed with bratwurst, leibkase, and the ever-present headcheese.<\/p>\n
On the wall, a large certificate reads \u201cHerr Dirk Muller, geboren am 3.12.1959 im Lima, Peru hat die Meisterprufung im Fleischer- handwerk bestanden.\u201d, telling those in the know that the large affable man behind the counter is not only German-trained – but he\u2019s also one of the best.<\/p>\n
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Mueller was born in Peru to German parents. He grew up in Southern California where he worked at Alpine Village, a Bavarian-themed and German-owned shopping complex in Torrance. Muller credits the owner, who is from Berlin, as the first to encourage him to go to Germany to train in his craft.<\/p>\n
A \u201cMeisterbrief\u201d requires two years of apprenticeship, and three years worth of journeyman work just to take the rigorous and detailed skills test. It is a requirement to hold one in any craft in order to open a business.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou\u2019ve completed it all from the ground up. Your first year of apprenticeship, you\u2019re back there scrubbing and cleaning the kitchen, really.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It wasn\u2019t always Muller\u2019s intention to become a meister. \u201cI went over there to go work, actually had the intention of going for about two years, just job around, learn new things. But as I was there it just turned out that I wound up going for the trade school program they have.\u201d said Mueller. <\/p>\n
In many European countries, including Germany, youth choose a path at the age of 13 or -14, either pursuing academia or entering a trade school, which puts them into real-world work experience. This is where Muller would spent two years building his business foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve completed it all from the ground up. Your first year of apprenticeship, you\u2019re back there scrubbing and cleaning the kitchen, really.\u201d said Muller.<\/p>\n
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After five years in Germany, Muller returned to southern California, where his old boss showed him an ad in the California Staats-Zeitung, a German publication. A sausage plant in Sacramento was looking for a new owner.<\/p>\n
A Swiss man named Ferdinand Morant was selling his shop, Morants Old Fashioned Sausage Kitchen. When Muller bought the shop in 1989, he left Morant\u2019s name on the door.<\/p>\n
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Some customers have been coming since before Muller\u2019s time, and although Muller says he re-opened to a skeptical audience, many have nothing but praise for him now. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never had a bad meal out of here,\u201d said Jerry Greenberg, a longtime Sacramento native. \u201cThe only problem is that I eat too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Muller sees his shop as part of Sacramento\u2019s diverse food landscape pointing to Morant\u2019s vast offering of sausages as proof of cross-cultural influences.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve never had a bad meal out of here. The only problem is that I eat too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s not just all German, we have Mexican chorizo, we have Swedish potato sausage, British bangers, South African boerewores.\u201d Muller lists, explaining that many of his customer\u2019s are ex-pats, surprised to find this taste of home.<\/p>\n
Where they find it can also be a shock to some, says Muller, as the neighborhood surrounding the shop has been known more for it\u2019s crime than it\u2019s bratwurst.<\/p>\n
\u201cFranklin Boulevard has gotten a bad rap because of some of the things that have happened along the strip in the past. But people don\u2019t realize how much has been cleaned up, how much has been added,\u201d said Muller. \u201cWe have a lot of customers that come and do their one stop shopping, they come here and get their sausage and go across the street and get their tamales.\u201d<\/p>\n
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