To ask what does a saveloy taste like?

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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?

They taste of heaven, absolute bliss!
I'm a southerner living in Yorkshire and have not found any chippies that sell them but after reading your post I desperately need one

@AintOverUntilTheCatLadySings

Like a really girthy frankfurter wearing a tight condom

That sells it!

I'm heading towards 60 & have only just discovered what a saveloy is!

Urgh! Mystery bags chock full of grease. I was violently sick from them as a child. They have thick skins and are a bit like a frankfurter.

i love me a saveloy! if i’m ever going to the shop at dinner time i always buy a saveloy to eat in the car. even though my 13 year old insists they are made from ‘pig penises’ 🙈

They taste like sadness.

I've just looked up what a 'rag pudding' was and found one of my very favourites - Stottie bread!

Also in the North West and have never seen them in a chippy but they look a bit like they would taste of a tinned hotdog to me.

I never saw one until I moved to London. I grew up in Northamptonshire. We had curry sauce, the yellow one, but my Londoner husband has never seen that! Chippies in South London never cook their chips long enough. Soggy, pale yellow and mushy. There was a chippy in Daventry (now closed )that did lovely brown chips and with the curry sauce was sublime. Tons of vinegar too. London chippies are terrible in comparison. But going back to savvies...disgusting!

Tomorrow can’t come quick enough!

Lightly spiced meat paste in a red condom, but oddly delicious. Chipper by me does battered ones, they are amazing.

Delicious!!! Can't get them down here (calamari is on the menu rather than savaloys and black pudding) I miss them. You eat them with chips and ketchup, how else do you eat chip shop food???

I miss saveloys so bad. Our local butcher in the village I grew up in made the best sav's. We'd buy a couple of dozen and eat them raw the last 300km on the drive home from Mum's. And cheerios, which are little miniature saveloys, and are mandatory at all kid's parties in NZ. However, the kids have to fight off the adults, because when the cheerios and tomato sauce comes out, everyone is instantly five years old again. . .

Thanks Brogues, I like the sound of your Northern chippies, ours are sad by comparison, pale soggy chips, mediocre fish, saveloys and sausages. One of my relatives lived in Lancaster years ago and there was a Travelling Chippie in a Van. It was fab and so was their product.

Why would you ask when it's so easy to sample one

You cant get them up in North wales supermarkets.they dont even sell them in the chippies
In fact people locally have never even heard of them which I find bizarre
I love them and miss them

@TheNoodlesIncident Yorkshire's a big place!

I'm in the west, near you most like.

Nope, I mean raw, lol. Straight from the butchers. Exactly like you're not supposed to do. Well, they've been cooked once, but you're supposed to boil them again. . . Never got crook, neither. And in NZ, many butchers will give a good little child who stands there patiently as Mum and Dad give their order, a little miniature saveloy to munch on right there in the shop. . .

Only read your original post but i used to like them as a child. A bit like herta frankfurters i think. I couldn't face one now

Minging they are, why don't chip shops down south do gravy? I asked for some once and was given oxo gravy, the really thin kind . The only place that did garlic sauce was the kebab shop. I do miss the kebabs though so much better than Northern efforts.

I like to thing I generally eat pretty well but aww, there’s something magical about a saveloy. It doesn’t quite taste like a sausage, more mild and plastically, but a bit peppery too. You must eat the skin, the snap is part of the enjoyment.

As someone said upthread, you do need more than one. I only ever order a single one and it’s usually gone before I’ve finished my first 5 chips.

(I hate saveloy and chips for dinner last night so I’m feeling very smug right now )

Yeah it's more like a hot dog. I quite like them but can't eat them as they repeat on me awfully now I'm old. (30s)

@Iheardarumour

I never saw one until I moved to London. I grew up in Northamptonshire. We had curry sauce, the yellow one, but my Londoner husband has never seen that! Chippies in South London never cook their chips long enough. Soggy, pale yellow and mushy. There was a chippy in Daventry (now closed )that did lovely brown chips and with the curry sauce was sublime. Tons of vinegar too. London chippies are terrible in comparison. But going back to savvies...disgusting!

I’m surprised by this. My love for the saveloy came from living close to London, but I spent my formative years in Northants and never had a problem getting on (though i only ever ate at our small town local).

Pleased to say that my local and my deliveroo chip shops all supply saveloy in the midlands.

[honestly, I only eat fish and chips 2-3 times a year ]

@AintOverUntilTheCatLadySings has it!

That description is perfect and surely unbeatable.

Used to love a saveloy. Until I worked I a chippy as a teenager. Then less so.