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How family dinner led to a Penn State powerlifting champion selling barbecue sauce with a Pittsburgh Pirates legend

One day, Angelo Poulich came home from work and his wife Aislinn made ribs — ribs that would change their family's life.

Poulich has gone from a Penn State powerlifting national champion, to 7-Eleven owner, to now creating his own barbecue sauce with Pittsburgh Pirates’ former second baseman Bill Mazeroski.

“One day I came home from work and she had made ribs in the oven,” Poulich said. “I said, ‘Where’d you buy that sauce?’ She said that she made it, and I told her that we should be selling that stuff.”

Aislinn said she thought she had sauce on hand that night, but quickly realized she didn’t and had to come up with her own sauce to put on the ribs.