Manger Packing Corp. turns out about 9,000 pounds a week of half-smoke sausage, considered a signature food of the nation's capital. Most of the half-smokes are destined for Washington — to the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and to the beloved Ben's Chili Bowl.
Fierce frontman: Dave Grohl
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It seems impossible to imagine now, but once upon a time, Dave Grohl was “afraid of music.”
“If I heard a song that even touched on an emotion in me, I would turn it off,” he told Anderson Cooper on CBS’ 60 Minutes in 2014. “I was so terrified because to me, that’s what music always was. It was a direct connection to my heart.”
Grohl begun to feel disconnected from music in 1994, a year synonymous with the suicide of his friend and bandmate Kurt Cobain and the subsequent disbandment of Nirvana. Grief manifested for Grohl not in the form of tears (“I remember trying to make myself cry and I just couldn’t,” he once admitted) but rather as numbness. “I just shut down.” With that, he questioned whether he had any desire to continue making music at all.