Garden centre leaves sausages pink inside

[Fizzycherryberry12]

We sometimes go to a really nice garden centre with a big restaurant. It's always busy and foods always so nice. I have noticed they always leave the sausages pink in the middle. I've had them several times and everytime I think I hope that it's cooked ok. It always is. If I had pink sausages in the middle at home they'd go back in the oven. I know steak can be rare. But I've never known sausages to be left pink? I'm not moaning I'm just curious if this happens in other places?

[picklemepopcorn]

It may be a cured sausage, in which case it's ok. I've had them in pubs, something between a saveloy and a sausage.

[HappyHammy]

This happenes in our local.pub chain. I sent them back and got a full refund. I never went back.

[LadyMonicaBaddingham]

I'd be mentioning it to them, tbh. It may well be that there are ingredients (e.g. spices/veg) in the sausage that leave a pink tinge, but I'd want to check for my own peace of mind...

[hadenoughofthisall]

why do you keep ordering them?!

[Katinski]

Pork sausages? Don't eat them ffs -
Beef sausages should be OK-but I'd still send them back.

[Babdoc]

Any uncured meat that has been minced - which includes in sausages, spaghetti bolognese, meatballs, burgers, etc - must be thoroughly cooked until browned all the way through.
A solid steak or fillet of meat is safe to have rare in the middle, as it only has germs on the outside and they’ve been seared in hot fat.
But as soon as you mince any piece of meat, you mix all the surface germs right through it.

[cdtaylornats]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett
Scandinavian raw pork mince dish

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare
European raw beef dish with raw egg.

[Babdoc]

Raw mince dishes, such as steak tartare, have to be specially prepared. The outside edges all have to be cut off a piece of meat, which is then minced through a mincer which has first been thoroughly cleaned of any previous raw product. Don’t try it at home using ready made standard mince - unless you enjoy the risk of serious food poisoning!
My old professor of bacteriology (I’m a retired hospital doctor) used to recommend slicing large sausages in half lengthwise, as they would otherwise never reach a bactericidal temperature in the middle.

[Sicario]

Being garden centre sausages, they probably don't have any meat in them anyway...

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

Quite often posh burgers are bit pink though, because they are minced steak. Is this not okay?

I wouldnt eat the sausages OP.

[SerendipityJane]

I'd hazard a guess that they're not being cooked (which implies a skill) but "prepared" following a bullet point list. As long as they've had minutes they are "cooked". Had this enough times to have completely given up eating out anywhere.

"Ping and fling".

[campion]

@TinklyLittleLaugh

No its not okay. Any minced meat can pick up contamination during the mincing and handling process. Therefore it needs to be cooked right through. You might be okay eating it pink one time if it hasn't picked up harmful bacteria. Next time might not be so lucky,posh or not.

On the sausages - cut one in half,feel the centre and if it's very hot chances are its just a cheap pink sausage full of bulking cheap filler ingredients. If it's cool to just warm don't eat it and send it back.

[LemonPrism]

Those fancy pink burgers are high risk for food poisoning. Everyone thinks because it's trendy it must be safe but it's really not