The Sausage Thread

Oh yeah, love a murguez - had some the other day!

You can't get a vegetarian or vegan sausage, the very definition of a sausage is:

"An item of food in the form of a cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating."

So to be a sausage, it MUST contain meat. If it doesn't have meat then by its very definition it aint a sausage :p:p;):D
 
No such thing as a local butcher for me now.

First one shut down twenty odd years ago, and is now some kind of posh barber.

Second one shut down five years ago, now an empty shop last time I passed by.

And then Morrisons shut their delicatessen, no more black pudding rings for me.

Can't get kidneys at all now either.
 
Kelt said:
No such thing as a local butcher for me now.

First one shut down twenty odd years ago, and is now some kind of posh barber.

Second one shut down five years ago, now an empty shop last time I passed by.

And then Morrisons shut their delicatessen, no more black pudding rings for me.

Can't get kidneys at all now either.
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Sounds like you need to move!
 
I think the reason most people complain about sausage is that sometimes, it's not properly refrigerated. Some supermarket actually have very bad refrigeration equipment. That's why I always prefer sausage. No matter how worst it can be, it's always more manageable than vegetables. From experience, more than 90% of sausage are good.
 
Of all the ones I've tried I reckon the premium supermarket ones are the best.

Maybe it's our butcher but their sausages can be hit and miss, although I get the thing about supporting local business, I do buy other bits from them, I'll generally just get the Tesco finest ones.

In fact I've had several different butcher or farm shop sausages and I wouldn't say any were better really.

I'd love to make my own, but getting and storing the gear, and buying the stuff, I don't think you'd save yourself any money, faff and all the cleaning after, but I reckon you could make some really good ones with a bit of practice and swatting up.
 
I've tried those Volkswagen (yes they make sausages too) currywurst sausages. They taste like a bratwurst & frankfurter that been mashed together. The VW ketchup makes makes it taste more better, its way different to those ones you get from Heinz; its a like a sweet yet spicy ketchup with herbs in it.

The Cumberland sausages with onion in them in Costco are pretty good too, very moreish.
 
d_brennen said:
I picked up a packet in Morrisons recently, flipped it over and scanned the ingredients. 58% pork. They had one job, stuff this full of pig, and ****** it up. Found some 90% ones which were actually alright.

For me, nothing beats my local butchers, even queue in the snow for them!
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Doesn't shock me, we had some of the top of the range from them and they seem to be the worst out of nearly all the supermarkets.
 
Sainsbury's sausages are probably the best in my experience, when we're comparing supermarkets. I haven't used waitrose in a few years and they used to use hog runners for their skins and they were really difficult to cook well and difficult to eat if you didn't.
 
Lmg80 said:
Merguez - nothing beats these beasts on a Bar-nee
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Was what I was going to post before seeing yours.

I always buy and eat them in France, with them being made locally, they change flavour + spice from town to town.

One local butcher to me in the UK can make them and I would recommend people to see if their local butcher can do them.
 
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