Sausages!

bossymoo

My kids love sainsburys Irish recipe ones. I have more expensive taste, I like the 97% pork ones - black farmer or is it Debbie and. Andrews or something... Obviously don't buy them often enough to remember...

Luckystar

Robin9 wrote: »

Where can you get Beef sausages ?

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=265407782

These are 80% British beef, it says product not available but I bought these today along with a pack of finest pork and leek flavour 2 for £5.

You can definately taste and see the difference with premium sausages as they have a much meatier texture. Richmond are the worst IMO soggy and tasteless, Walls are better if you need to go for a cheaper option.

meritaten

If you ever cook sausages on George Foreman grill - then you will never buy cheap sausages again! the GUNK that comes out of them has to be seen to be believed. OH always insisted that we buy cheap sausages - until we got George - now he reads the labels and wont buy anything less than the best! and sometimes that IS supermarket premium brand. unless we are at a farmers market and they have a lovely sounding sausage. (and usually you get to taste test them)

TravellingAbuela

Since I bought some sausages at a local butchers I have never gone back to supermarket sausage. There is no comparison, they are so tasty, no gristle and very little fat comes out of them. If I HAD to buy some in a supermarket it would be Debbie and Andrews from Sainsbury's as they come a close second. Not cheap but I am happy to pay a bit more for a decent sausage.

A._Badger

TravellingAbuela wrote: »

Since I bought some sausages at a local butchers I have never gone back to supermarket sausage. There is no comparison, they are so tasty, no gristle and very little fat comes out of them. If I HAD to buy some in a supermarket it would be Debbie and Andrews from Sainsbury's as they come a close second. Not cheap but I am happy to pay a bit more for a decent sausage.

I buy both Morrison's top-end range and a butcher's own. To be frank, there's not a lot of difference I find (and it's a good butcher). Many supermarket sausages, however, like most of the 'big brands' are very poor indeed.

antrobus

Luckystar wrote: »

... Richmond are the worst IMO soggy and tasteless, Walls are better if you need to go for a cheaper option.

Curiously enough, both Richmond and Walls are owned by the same company, Kerry Group. They also had Porkinsons at one time as well, until they decided to dump that brand.

lazer

I buy mine from a local farm, or if I can't get the delivery from them in time, the local butchers.


I rarely eat sausages.

antrobus

TravellingAbuela wrote: »

Since I bought some sausages at a local butchers I have never gone back to supermarket sausage. There is no comparison, they are so tasty, no gristle and very little fat comes out of them. If I HAD to buy some in a supermarket it would be Debbie and Andrews from Sainsbury's as they come a close second. Not cheap but I am happy to pay a bit more for a decent sausage.

The trouble is that there is a limit to how much I am prepared to pay for a sausage. Once you start talking about paying £7.50 a kg for a pork sausage, I'm thinking it's cheaper just to go and buy some actual pork.:)

zzzt

I've gone off sausages. Even the premium ones that tout the high meat content are full of gristle and hard lumps, water and oil oozes out of them when you cook them and the casings peel off when you cut them. It might be 87% meat but I'm pretty sure 30% of that is lips and !!!!.

I think the low pork content sausages like Richmond ones are tasty, but I'm very aware that they're barely meat, they're just processed junk, so I don't buy them. Loved them as a kid though.

I love the Nürnberger Bratwürste you can get in Germany which are 95% meat and actually taste meaty. I'm sure they aren't good for you but they're delicious. Far superior to any English sausage I've ever had.

january_23

Cyberman60 wrote: »

I don't buy sausages very often as I consider them junk food, but when I do I go for those that are on special offer but only with a higher proportion of meat, so I'd go for Premium Brand or Butchers.

Many years ago I read an article on 'mechanically recovered meat', effectively a sludge recovered from carcasses/bones at high temperatures, which is often put into sausages and burgers and this put me off the more extreme junk foods for ever !! :eek:

IMO, we are what we eat !!

I remember having the MRM talk with my OH years ago. Showed him a video of how it's all done too. It put him off eating anything that said MRM on the label since. Quite the oddity as he has a 'cast iron' stomach but that got to him!


He still eats beef sausages, which probably do have MRM but don't state it, but he barely buys sausages now. He won't eat pork sausages and beef ones aren't cheap. He prefers to buy a beef joint and eat that instead (had as a joint, cut in strips, diced etc). That way he knows what he is eating.