Indigenous Ashland-based Food Truck To Be Featured At 2025 Nfl Draft

ASHLAND, Wis. (Northern News Now) - The 2025 NFL Draft whitethorn beryllium hosted successful Green Bay but it will surely showcase each of Wisconsin culture.

The Frybread Shack, based successful Ashland, is 1 of 4 Wisconsin nutrient trucks selected to navigator wrong nan 2025 NFL Draft campus.

“I say, ‘Hey, you guys fresh for immoderate awesome news?’ And they were like, ‘What do you mean?’ and I say, ‘Hey, we’re accepted to nan NFL draught this year,‘” proprietor of nan Frybread Shack Ezra Leoso said.

Leoso said they were selected retired of hundreds of nutrient trucks that applied to beryllium featured.

“A batch of it was because they wanted Wisconsin culture,” Leoso said.

“Wisconsin culture” is simply a batch much than food and beer.

For this Bad River Band family business, it’s each astir nan Indigenous delicacy.

“There’s a batch of frybread retired there,” Leoso said. “We person a typical recipe. We do thing a small different. We make different items not accepted to Native diets.”

The paper includes frybread tacos, frybread burgers and saccharine frybread bites. These signature items will beryllium featured connected their constricted paper astatine nan NFL Draft.

However, nan frybread look itself is simply a Leoso family secret.

“It’s really my recipe,” Leoso’s mom said. “It started pinch my grandma, but it evolved.”

While Leoso besides wouldn’t uncover nan recipe, 1 point that will beryllium showcased astatine nan draught is nan community, Leoso said, is nan logic for their success.

“When we started this, we started arsenic a pop-up, we sewage these second-hand,” Leoso said. “There’s not overmuch really I tin definitive really excited we are to beryllium location to correspond Ashland County, Bad River.”

With nan timer to draught time ticking down, there’s only 1 point Leoso has near to say.

“Ashland, Bad River, nan Frybread Shack is now connected nan clock,” Leoso said.

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