About Southside Market

"Hot Guts" From the Oldest BBQ Joint in Texas "Butcher today, deliver tomorrow." That was Southside Market's mantra in 1882 when the first cuts of meat were sold from founder William Moon's wagon 140 years ago. Without refrigeration, the unsold fresh cuts of meat were preserved by smoking and, in true German tradition, spiced to make sausages. It wasn't long before these "hot guts" became famous, with people all over coming to Elgin to sample them. The decades rolled by and while Southside Market's owners changed, their dedication to crafting the best sausages in Texas did not, which is why nearly a century and a half since that first cut of meat was sold, Elgin is known as the Sausage Capital of Texas.Read their story