40 Sausages a £1 in Asda

meg72

Was delighted to find Ross Irish recipe sausages 40, 1.4 kg for a £1.oo in Asda today, didnt say reduced or roll back so hope this helps someone.

Also stocked up on red and green Asda Pesto at 2 for a pound. and got fruit and veg in the woopsie section. So well chuffed for today :j

master_of_puppets

yum...machaincally reclaimed meat:silenced:

sexylulubelle

I bought a pack a couple of weeks ago, may just be my taste but thought the sausages tasted really synthetic, and not to mention the amount of fat that comes off them when grilled:eek: is kinda scary

Viper_7

Meg, could you post the meat content - would be interesting to see what they are made up of.
A half decent sausage should be 85%+ meat. With the better ones being 90%+

I'm guessing these will be less. If cooked on a grill etc and the fat/water allowed to run off, sure they will shrink a tad but may end still being good value.
If not less, then depending on individual taste sounds like a good buy.

In my opinion, it is worth paying a little more for a decent sausage, it's one product that is easily padded out with water and fat or grain.

geordie_joe

master_of_puppets wrote: »

yum...machaincally reclaimed meat:silenced:

It's Mechanically Recovered meat, and regardless of they way it is taken off the bone, it is still meat.

you_wicked_gay

Just checked Asda online - can't see any 'Ross' sausages..but found Richmond Irish Recipe sausages? Maybe these are the right ones..

Sausage content from Asda website:

PORK (41%) , WATER , PORK FAT (10%) , RUSK , POTATO STARCH , SOYA PROTEIN CONCENTRATE , SALT , INGREDIENTS LESS THAN 1%: FLAVOURINGS, STABILISERS: DIPHOSPATES; GUAR GUM , ANTIOXIDANTS: VITAMIN C & E (E300 & E307) , PRESERVATIVE: SODIUM METABISULPHITE, COLOUR: RED 2G. , FILLED INTO NON UK BEEF CASINGS .

Viper_7

40% meat.... crikey!!
But at least the rest is mostly water and not fat.

I'll pass!

andrewmp

They aren't the Richmond ones. I saw them, 32% meat IIRC

geordie_joe

Viper_7 wrote: »

Meg, could you post the meat content - would be interesting to see what they are made up of.
A half decent sausage should be 85%+ meat. With the better ones being 90%+

Sorry, no disrespect to you, but the above (highlighted in bold) just annoys me. People hear it, and repeat it without ever thinking what it means.

The percentage of meat in a sausage is not an indication of how good it is. This myth came about because sausage makers started putting cuts of meat into sausages that people had stopped buying, pigs trotters, cheeks, backsides etc. They also made them cheaper by putting more of the cheaper ingredients in, such as rusk and bread crumbs.

It's not the amount of meat in a sausage that makes it good, it's the other stuff. Which is better, a sausage that contains 70% meat and 30% "good stuff" such as apple, leek spices etc. or a sausage that is 85% meat and 15% chemicals?

People have been brainwashed into thinking all sausages contain "rubbish", and the more meat there is in the sausage the less room there is for the rubbish. Therefore the higher the meat content the better the sausage.

This is not always true. Don't look at how much meat is in the sausage, look at what the rest of the sausage is made up of.

geordie_joe

OK, I've been on the Tesco web site and looked at sausages. Actually only DEBBIE & ANDREW sausages that have the pround boast of being 97% pork.

In the description they say

We only ever use fresh British pork from high welfare farms. This does cost a little bit more but, as they say... 'you get what you pay for'.

We carefully mince our pork, add a little seasoning, fold in a handful of breadcrumbs and make into sausages.

Simple really... and you'll be amazed how little fat there is.

All very nice, but no mention of the Sulphur Dioxide and Sodium Sulphite which is listed in the ingredients. And no mention of the salt, which is second in the list of ingredients.

Next, the nutrition information says that 100g of these sausages contains 22.3g of fat. How can a sausage that is 97% meat contain 22.3% of fat? ( There is a simple explanation for this, and a brownie point goes to anyone who can say what it is)

And just to complicate matters, if you grill 100g of their 97% meat chipolatas it will contain 15.8g. God knows how much fat it contains before you grill it.

SilverBird_2

Research what's in a sausage and you'd be surprised at what can actually count as "meat".
As to "40 sausages for £1" that's 2.5p per sausage and I shudder at the thought of what they're made from!
Don't be fooled by sausages with claims of, say, 90% meat - what counts as "lean" meat may still surprise many consumers.
Personally, I'd give sausages a miss!