40 Sausages a £1 in Asda

casper_g

geordie_joe wrote: »

The government thinks it shouldn't. That's why it must be listed as a separate ingredient in the nutrition box. It allows 30% of the "meat" to be fat, but you must list how much fat is in the product in the nutrition box.

Fat's listed in the nutritional info, but this is a list of nutrients not ingredients. A digestive biscuit contains 21.5% fat, by weight, but that doesn't mean you've been conned and the pack only contains 78.5% biscuits! The fat is part of the biscuit.

geordie_joe wrote: »

Just been on the tesco web site, and their belly pork says it contains 26.3% fat.

Got my figure from here. Probably got fattier pigs in the US, or they mean a somewhat different cut when they say belly pork.

geordie_joe wrote: »

I agree with you, but if you read my posts I never said I don't expect meat to contain fat. What I said was they claim the sausage is 97% pork when it contains 22.3% fat and can contain up to 25% connective tissue.

I've always thought there's a bit of a double standard when it comes to meat and meat products: if I buy a whole chicken, I'll roast it and eat the flesh, skin, fat, whatever I can get. Then I'll make a soup out of the rest of it, and a lot of the connective tissue etc will end up in there. Similarly if I buy a joint of meat on the bone. This is regarded as good old-fashioned thrifty household management. But if someone else gets those bits and bobs and turns them into a product to sell, it becomes a scandalous con and a danger to public health. What's the difference, fundamentally?

I agree the worst of the sausages on the supermarket shelves are objectionable, but it's not easy to know where to draw the line, or to come up with objective standards by which to judge them.

ste_coxy

anyway....

i have previously bough them and thought they were a bargain - clearly not the best of quality of sausages but when you are on a budget they do go a long way

claire111

So if you have to buy sausages because your family like them, which are the 'best' sausages (for quality) to buy and why??

geordie_joe

casper_g wrote: »

Fat's listed in the nutritional info, but this is a list of nutrients not ingredients. A digestive biscuit contains 21.5% fat, by weight, but that doesn't mean you've been conned and the pack only contains 78.5% biscuits! The fat is part of the biscuit.

You are completely missing the point, aren't you?

Your example would not be a con as it is, but what about if it said on the front of the packet 97% flour and on the back it said 21.5% fat.

I'm not complaining about the amount of fat in a sausage, I'm complaining about the fact that they can put 30% fat in it and claim it's meat.

casper_g wrote: »

I've always thought there's a bit of a double standard when it comes to meat and meat products: if I buy a whole chicken, I'll roast it and eat the flesh, skin, fat, whatever I can get. Then I'll make a soup out of the rest of it, and a lot of the connective tissue etc will end up in there. Similarly if I buy a joint of meat on the bone. This is regarded as good old-fashioned thrifty household management. But if someone else gets those bits and bobs and turns them into a product to sell, it becomes a scandalous con and a danger to public health. What's the difference, fundamentally?

I'm not disputing that, I'm just complaining about the fact that a sausage maker can the sausage contains a percentage of meat, but 55% of what they claim to be meat is not meat.

How would you feel if you bought a whole chicken that claimed to be 100% meat, just because the government said they could include all the other bits as "meat".

Just to make sure you have got my point, I am not happy that there are people buying sausages that claim to have 97% meat, and thinking that it is 97% 'lean meat' when in fact that 97% meat can be made up of 45% meat, 30% fat and 25% connective tissue.

casper_g wrote: »

I agree the worst of the sausages on the supermarket shelves are objectionable, but it's not easy to know where to draw the line, or to come up with objective standards by which to judge them.

For me it's simple, the meat, fat and connective tissue should be listed as separate ingredients.

andrewmp

Got some yesterday, tried a couple, not a lot of taste but not too bad for 2.5p per sausage. Will do for breakfast or something, wouldn't eat them as a main meal or anything.

Minxy_Bella

I've been buying these for a couple of weeks and they're my kids' favourite sausages of all time!

They turn their noses up at expensive ones - typical!

andrewmp

Minxy_Bella wrote: »

I've been buying these for a couple of weeks and they're my kids' favourite sausages of all time!

They turn their noses up at expensive ones - typical!

I thought kids would like them, they're not sagey or peppery at all, very little taste actually. There didn't seem to be more fat than any other sausage (in the grill pan after grilling).

They'll do for £1, I'm guessing they're end of line and won't be a regular price!

mervyn67

42% of 1.4 kilogrammes is about 574 grammes of pork for £1 which is quite a large amount by my reckoning regardless of what the rest is. And 10% fat that's about 140 grammes enough for anyone.

geordie_joe

mervyn67 wrote: »

42% of 1.4 kilogrammes is about 574 grammes of pork for £1 which is quite a large amount by my reckoning regardless of what the rest is. And 10% fat that's about 140 grammes enough for anyone.

Your post is a classic example of why I get annoyed with sausages, particularly the meat and fat content.

1. The meat content stated (42%) is not all pork, it can be made up to 30% fat and 25% connective tissue.

2. The fat listed in the ingredients is extra fat, on top of what is included in the meat content.

Look on the back of the packet and it will tell you that every 100g of sausage contains 22.2g of fat. That means 22.2% of the sausage is fat, not 10%.

10% of the fat is listed in the ingredients as fat, the other 12.2% is part of the 42% meat content. If they added the maxim 30% of fat to the meat content it would be 12.6% of the sausage. So you can see they have included just about as much fat as they are allowed to in the meat content.

Enterprise_1701C

I don't care what is in the sausages - sounds awful but true!

When I use sausages it is usually with something else that will give flavour.

At the moment a cheap meal is what we need - if I can find these sausages I will buy them, add a little something extra, and they will be eaten and enjoyed.

I just wish people on here would stop trying to tell other people how to live - it is very nice if you can afford sausages made "properly", but I can't at the moment, and there is also the issue of personal preference.

Thank you to the OP for posting a bargain, you really should not have been villified in this manner.