The Wisconsin State Fair is known for many things, but one stand that has stood the test of time is the Pork Shoppe. Pork producers were one of the few commodity programs that first brought their products to the state fair. Kerri Retallick, Executive Vice President of the Wisconsin Pork Association says they started with the butterfly chop and that remains their number one seller yet today. She explains more about what it takes to run the Pork Shoppe for the eleven days of the fair and the exciting new changes they made this year.

“All of our pork products that we serve are processed in Wisconsin,” says Retallick. “We’re working on a program called Wisconsin Raised that we will hopefully have up and running next year. This would allow us to serve only Wisconsin raised pork.”

The butterfly pork chop is their best seller, followed by pork on a stick and the pork burger. Retallick anticipates selling about 25,000 sandwiches this year. They are on track to selling around 17 thousand butterfly pork chops. In order to make this possible they have around 350 volunteers that come and help throughout the 11 days.

New this year, the Pork Shoppe is now being run out of two trailers versus a tent.