The Sausage Pittsburgh
Misses, Shipped to Your Door.
Small-batch, hand-mixed, all natural — the same sausage Ricci's has made in McKees Rocks since 1945, now packed frozen and shipped to all 50 states. Make Sunday dinner taste like home, wherever you live.
Certified
Since
1973
Sunday Dinner Shouldn't
Taste Like a Compromise.
Most sausage is mass-produced, packed with fillers, and seasoned with pre-ground dust that lost its flavor a year ago. You read the label and there are twelve ingredients — half of them you can't pronounce.
Our sausage is different.
McKees Rocks, PA
Same Recipe
Master Sausage-Makers
Now Ship To
Sunday Dinner in
Three Simple Steps.
Pick Your Pack
Sweet, hot, meatballs, or the Pittsburgh sampler. Order online in under a minute.
Arrives Frozen
Packed cold, shipped fast — at your door in 2 days, ready for the freezer.
Cook Like Pittsburgh
Thaw, simmer, grill, or stuff. Sunday dinner tastes like it should.
Small Batches.
Real Spices. Same as 1945.
Hand-mixed seasoning, whole fennel seed, real paprika, all natural — no additives, no preservatives. The same boutique sausage Ernest Ricci started making in McKees Rocks eighty years ago.
Classic Sweet Italian Sausage
Our original, since 1945. Mild and fragrant with the Sulmona family spice blend — hand-mixed, lean (22–25% fat), all natural. 3 lbs, fresh.
Hot Italian Sausage
Bold heat, full flavor. Crushed red pepper, real paprika, whole fennel seed — hand-mixed in small batches. A Pittsburgh staple for Sunday sauce. 3 lbs, fresh.
This Is What Dinner
Is Supposed to Feel Like.
A pot of red sauce simmering since morning. Sausage browning in the pan. The whole house smelling like a McKees Rocks Sunday — wherever you actually live.
Why Your Sauce
Will Taste Like It Should.
In 1945, Ernest Ricci opened a small butcher shop in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. He brought with him a spice blend from his family's hometown of Sulmona, Italy — and a stubborn refusal to change it.
Eight decades later, not a single ingredient has been altered. The same hand-mixed spices — real paprika, whole fennel seed, no ground shortcuts. The same proprietary grind. Small batches, all natural, no additives, no preservatives. The same sausage that made Ricci's a Pittsburgh institution.
Today, three generations of master sausage-makers still run the counter — and for the first time in our history, we're shipping to doorsteps across the country.
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Inspected
Est. 1973
USDA Inspected Every Day Since 1973.
It's the same stamp you look for at the meat case — the mark that says careful, inspected sausage worth putting on your table. We've held that standard for fifty-plus years without missing a day. Ricci's is one of only two USDA-inspected sausage makers in Pittsburgh with its own retail counter — and the only one that also cooks. Same standard, every link.
Salsiccia! Cooking with Sausage
Mangia Salsiccia!
Cooking with Sausage.
Our family cookbook — three generations of recipes for Sunday sauce, stuffed peppers, Feast of the Seven Fishes, and every way we've ever served a link of sausage. The original family recipe is still a secret. Everything else is in the book.
100% of proceeds support local charity.
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