To ask what does a saveloy taste like?

[graceeellixo]

I’m fascinated by them, how do you eat them, what do they taste of and what’s the difference between a saveloy and a chippy sausage?

I think it’s more North West that saveloys are few and far between

Today is the day! My mums watching DS (we live together) over lunch so I can have the full saveloy experience

"Sorry I should have added didnt know people would find fault in a thread about a sausage"

People find fault with anything in here. A woman posted yesterday to say how proud she was of her 9 year old daughter doing a swim for charity and one particularly poisonous viper responded basically scoring the kids time that she did the swim in. Some spiteful creatures around.

Anyway I digress... Tbh I've never heard of a saveloy other than from the Oliver Twist song! I assumed it was a London thing? I also assumed it would be like a chippy sausage, so like a mattesons sausage with batter? I'm in Scotland so I am aware that there are regional variations of what is sold in chippys.

*scorning

@graceeellixo

Today is the day! My mums watching DS (we live together) over lunch so I can have the full saveloy experience

If you want the full experience, you want one of these. Very filling.

@graceeellixo

What’s Tottenham cake I’m abit curious about that as well, might take DS to London once covid sausage blocker fucks off so we can sight see and eat

Plain sponge cake with thick pink icing on top. Bloody lovely with custard but I've only ever seen them for sale down south. I always back a few packs when I visit family in Canterbury.

Asked my mam this morning and you can definitely still get savaloys from the butchers in the indoor market in Hartlepool. She brought four yesterday for tea.

@AintOverUntilTheCatLadySings

Like a really girthy frankfurter wearing a tight condom

I've never eaten a saveloy and now, for sure, I never will.

Girthy. What a word! :)

I went to uni 'Oop North' and when I asked for a saveloy in the chip shop they didnt know what I was talking about.

@graceeellixo
I have never seen them in the chippy or butchers I live near Droysden so I may see you in Maine road chippy .
You need to report back on your thoughts about the savaloy and any other sausage you try.

@AwaAnBileYerHeid

"Sorry I should have added didnt know people would find fault in a thread about a sausage"

People find fault with anything in here. A woman posted yesterday to say how proud she was of her 9 year old daughter doing a swim for charity and one particularly poisonous viper responded basically scoring the kids time that she did the swim in. Some spiteful creatures around.

Anyway I digress... Tbh I've never heard of a saveloy other than from the Oliver Twist song! I assumed it was a London thing? I also assumed it would be like a chippy sausage, so like a mattesons sausage with batter? I'm in Scotland so I am aware that there are regional variations of what is sold in chippys.

Nothing like a chippy sausage Its hard to explain how its different but it tastes different to sausage and not the same as a hot dog

Today is not the day! Saveloy Chippy is fucking closed so I will have to wait until tomorrow

Tottenham cake is a Quaker thing, sponge traybake with pink icing. Coloured with mulberry juice and handed round at Friends meetings. Can't believe those hideous 'cheesecakes ' still exist. The kind of thing that could only come from a UK High St baker. Cardboard pastry, white icing, coconut sprinkle. Don't bother. Saveloys are horrible no matter where you are in the country.

I used to quite like them but was spoiled by having one deep-fried so that the skin was very crispy, a pleasing red colour and delicious! I'm not keen on the flourescent, slightly warmed, floppy-skinned offerings from the chip shop now.

As PP have said, Sainsbury's used to sell them on the deli counter. If you have a Costco near you, OP - or en route on your bus tour - they sell them too.

Bon chance!

Thinking about it, I could probably sprinkle them with salt and cook them in a hot oven...

It's lunchtime too...

I grew up in a chippy and never bothered trying one. They were always boiled, never fried, unlike a normal sausage, it was more dry. I never saw the appeal myself.

I’m from the home of the delicious parmo so rarely room on the chippy menu for saveloys but I have seen and eaten them so they do exist in the NE definitely. We always had them cold with a salad and pease pudding though so I can’t imagine eating one with gravy!

@AintOverUntilTheCatLadySings wins the description award though.

If I were suddenly transported to Sator Square, I should imagine Dibbler would sell me one. "Yer actual pig products".

Parmo! Never seen down here in the South as far as I know. First time I heard of parmo was years ago when tv Hotel Inspector Ruth was giving advice to a couple of guys opening a hotel in - I think - Blackpool. You'll need a menu said Ruth, No, we're just going to do parmos. Ruth was shocked and bewildered, me too, but they knew their market, parmos successful. Quite fancy one myself if I find myself up there. Do you have them with chips?

Today is not the day! Saveloy Chippy is fucking closed so I will have to wait until tomorrow

Jesus Christ!!! I'm more invested in this thread than Boris's speech later!

@Vello

Never seen or eaten a saveloy here in Yorkshire. Only know them from Oliver!

They don't have rag pudding or gravy in London and the few times I've had chippy chips down there I've been tragically disappointed so I've never taken the opportunity to try pease pudding and saveloy. If we're ever allowed out of the North again I am going to try it.

They must have been once @Vello as James Herriot describes an incident involving saveloys where he has a craving for them and his wife is like "Jim you're pissed, you know you can't eat saveloys" as they disagreed with his digestion or something. Was most amusing.

I'm in NW and we don't have saveloys here that I've found, but we're always willing to experiment in the interests of science, especially sausage related situations. I shall have to keep an eye out for them!

@longwayoff yup with chips. Some chippies do them with salad or coleslaw or garlic sauce. Loads of parmo variations too like kiev, hotshot (pepperoni and jalepeno), mushroom etc.

@TheNoodlesIncident welcome to the sausage connoisseur training thread

Lips and arseholes covered in a red wrapping?

Parmo: the food of the gods/the Antichrist of takeaways. I must do more research on which it is.

We were on the Isle of Wight last week, and when I described it to my Southern hosts their eyes were wide with horror.