Robertson's Hams & The Choppin' Block
A Salado smokehouse curing and smoking its own ham, bacon, sausage and jerky since 1971. Jerky orders over $100 ship free, which tells you what most people leave with.
Why go
Robertson's has run as Salado's meat counter since 1971, curing and smoking everything it sells.1 Ham, bacon, sausage and beef jerky all come off the shop's own recipes, cured and smoked on the premises.1 Nobody outside the family has written about any of it.
Order this / avoid
- Order: a smoked ham, the thing the Robertsons put their name on.1
- Order: the beef jerky. Over $100 of it ships free.2
- Avoid: planning a meal around it. Everything the shop describes is meat to carry out, and no dining room is mentioned anywhere.1
Good to know
- They ship. The shop runs its own store online, with departments for meats and cheeses and for jerky, and the free-jerky-shipping offer carries a code, JERKY100.2
Verdict
listed — Fifty-five years of curing and smoking on one road is the case here, and the shop makes ham, bacon, sausage and jerky in the building rather than buying any of it in. That is worth a stop if you are driving I-35 and want something to take home. No judgment on the ham exists outside the family's own, so the rung reflects the record rather than the smokehouse.