Quality of Sausage Rolls over time

[Randomface74]

When I was a kid ~20 years ago I always used to go to the local Cooplands and buy sausage rolls - It was 3 or 4 for a quid. They were good quality too, really tasty.

Now I live down south, so it's Greggs not Cooplands, but sausage rolls contain some sort of meat slime. Not even remotely tasty, just yuck.

Discuss. What's your sausage roll experience? Anywhere still selling good ones?

 

[jsmoke]

Mass production means cutting corners, pork pies are crap also.

 

[jpaul]

new adventures tomorrow ?

So Greggs just revealed that tomorrow (3rd January) they will start to sell a vegan alternative version of their sausage rolls, made using Quorn

..most genuine melton mowbray pies are nice ... waitrose or dickins&morris ... especially on knock-down.

 

[haaammit]

Make your own?

Sausage meat and short-crust or puff pastry, both of which you can buy pre-made if you can't be arsed (I do make short-crust but making puff pastry? Nah!!).

Roll out pastry, wrap around sausage meat, cook and enjoy!!

 

[something daft already!!]

Anything which has sausage in it will not get my vote. I'm just not keen on eating snouts, ears, eyes etc. I prefer my meat to be a recognisable cut.

 

[cheesyboy]

I prefer my meat to be a recognisable cut.

Surely eyes, snouts etc are better - you can even point to the bit of the pig it comes from

 

[robj20]

Anything which has sausage in it will not get my vote. I'm just not keen on eating snouts, ears, eyes etc. I prefer my meat to be a recognisable cut.

If it tastes nice what's the issue. I prefer to try and eat as much of an animal as I can within reason.

 

[Andrew_McP]

I feel it's the same with all processed food these days. The never ending quest to keep prices 'low' and profits 'high' inevitably pushes quality down while food science tries to keep the flavour.

As a rational meat eater I don't have any objection to eating as much as possible of a carcass though, so a bit of eyelid or bum hole in my sausage (but not vice versa, thanks) is fair enough.

 

[cheesyboy]

I feel it's the same with all processed food these days. The never ending quest to keep prices 'low' and profits 'high' inevitably pushes quality down while food science tries to keep the flavour.

As a rational meat eater I don't have any objection to eating as much as possible of a carcass though, so a bit of eyelid or bum hole in my sausage (but not vice versa, thanks) is fair enough.

No way are processed foods as low quality as they were in the '80s and '90s. I remember those school dinners.

 

[robfosters]

Morrisons freshly baked in store sausage rolls are lovely. Quite cheap too.

 

[200sols]

Anything which has sausage in it will not get my vote. I'm just not keen on eating snouts, ears, eyes etc. I prefer my meat to be a recognisable cut.

Buy a quality sausage then?

 

[Distracted]

Meat slime is an apt description.

On a related note, we don't use it here iirc or anywhere in the eu, but 'pink slime' is something used in meat products in America.

Where's the puking emoji when you need it?

 

[Defy Belief]

Farmhouse sausage rolls are lovely!

 

[chroniclard]

Local butchers makes them, you cook them yourself, they are absolutely epic, quite possibly the best thing ever made.

 

[something daft already!!]

Buy a quality sausage then?

I'm not sure such a thing exists. They are all made from various parts of the animal which one would normally not consider consuming.

 

[One More Solo]

This is what happens when you produce food to a price point because consumers don’t see the value in buying actual nice things.

 

[pepp77]

I'm not sure such a thing exists. They are all made from various parts of the animal which one would normally not consider consuming.

A good quality sausage (either made yourself or by a good butcher) will be a nice bit of shoulder, with some herbs and a bit of rusk/breadcrumb material, combined together and put in a skin.

 

[200sols]

I'm not sure such a thing exists. They are all made from various parts of the animal which one would normally not consider consuming.

They really are not, there are many good sausages out there you just have to look for them. In supermarkets they sell heck sausages now, made from 97% pork shoulder but there many independent places all over the country offering good quality, you just wont get them 6 for £1..

 

[Avenged7Fold]

This is what happens when you produce food to a price point because consumers don’t see the value in buying actual nice things.

Agree.

People expect to a portion of meat on their plate for next to nothing - something that has required rearing, feeding, butchering and transport to get to you. They expect to get fresh, good quality off season produce for tiny amounts - something that came from a field that had to be prepared, planted, grown, harvested and then finally transported to you

Every year people complain about things costing so much but reality is that we expect to have it for so little. To meet demands of consumers at the price points they are willing to pay, sacrifice in quality must be made.

 

[pioneer2000]

What?! Greggs sausage rolls are amazing.