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any other people very fussy with sausages?

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lunavix · 10/02/2006 21:25

I'm doing toad in the hole this week and am VERY fussy with sausages. I always end up looking in the middle and being totally disgusted with what I see. I get the kids and ds butchers choice from tescos as they don't mind, and I usually get cauldron vegetarian ones, but I'm rather tired of these....

Does anyone buy some scrummy ones (preferably from a supermarket) that they could recommend?

Two weeks ago I bought tescos finest chipolatas which crunched more than normal ones (shudder) even dh wouldn't eat them

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SorenLorensen · 10/02/2006 21:26

I always check the meat content - the higher the meat content, the better the sausage. I never buy cheap sausages...eyeballs and scrotums (scrotii?) anyone?

Marina · 10/02/2006 21:28

Duchy ones or Helen Browning, available from Sainsbos and Waitrose. Both good, using organic meat. Quite spicy though, as real English bangers are meant to be.

noddyholder · 10/02/2006 21:29

porky whites are nice (according to ds and dp)I hate sausages though but apparently loved them as a small child

charliecat · 10/02/2006 21:31

I think its sainsburys who do an lovely and I mean lovely leek and something vege sausage in the frozen vegetarian department. Gorgeous...cheese and leek i think it is. They are gorgeous and im a fussy git.

Gingerbear · 10/02/2006 21:31

link\www.sausagelinks.co.uk/sausage-buying-guide.htm\Sausagelinks - a buyers guide to sausages.

I always buy organic from local farmers' market, but Sainsbo's taste the difference pork chipolatas are DD's faves if we run out.

Gingerbear · 10/02/2006 21:31

link{http://www.sausagelinks.co.uk/sausage-buying-guide.htm}\Sausagelinks - a buyers guide to sausages.

SorenLorensen · 10/02/2006 21:32

Go on, gingerbear, have another go

Gingerbear · 10/02/2006 21:32

have lost linking knack.

link{http://www.sausagelinks.co.uk/sausage-buying-guide.htm\Sausagelinks - a buyers guide to sausages.}

spacedonkey · 10/02/2006 21:32

I'm really funny about sausages too (anyone read the horrific sausage scene in Coming Up For Air? Puts you off for life). Always get top quality ones from waitrose or butcher. Best sausages ever are proper Italian ones if you can get hold of em. Scrotii free zone.

Gingerbear · 10/02/2006 21:33

Oh, I give up!

SorenLorensen · 10/02/2006 21:33

SausagelinksSausages!

SorenLorensen · 10/02/2006 21:34
Mercy · 10/02/2006 21:34

Agree with Gingerbear re TTD pork chiplolatas. Rated highly by a Guardian (?) review last year.

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lunavix · 10/02/2006 21:36

might ship dh off to sainsburys then (I do a tescos online shop)

Our local butcher only does one sort, and while I'm sure they're better than average they aren't specifically 'fab'. I was just shocked at tescos standards.

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Gingerbear · 10/02/2006 21:37

I have read the word sausage so many times, it now looks incorrectly spelt!
Thank you SL, raspberry in reply (v childish)

alliep30 · 10/02/2006 21:38

Newmarket sausages rock. The queen eats them, god bless her.. Available from "The Pork Shop" (still snigger as it sounds like a brothel)

Gingerbear · 10/02/2006 21:39

Sainsbury also do online shopping you know.

SueW · 10/02/2006 21:39

Make your own!

Go see a good butcher, get pork and skins. If you don't have a mincer, ask him to double mince pork and for some tips on sausage-making if you haven't already got the River Cottage Cook Book or Family Cook Book.

I was looking at one of Gary Rhodes' cook books today and didn't fancy what he put in his sausages but if you're making 'em, you choose the cuts, the fat content, whether you add breadcrumbs or something similar, which if any herbs go in. (I work with someone who is coeliac and every so often she rings the butcher and asks him to make up some gluten-free sausages for her).

Gingerbear · 10/02/2006 21:40

One mumsnetter's catchphrase is
'Life is too short to stuff a sausage'

Can't remember who.

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lunavix · 10/02/2006 21:43

GB - the fruit they deliver is shocking, and as we eat far more fruit than sausages I chose tescos. Ahhh for dh to be MD of a company one day so we can use ocado!

SueW - It's half term!!!!!! Far too little time to stuff sausages

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SueW · 10/02/2006 21:44

Make kids do it

Dior · 10/02/2006 21:46

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blueshoes · 10/02/2006 22:00

I like Merguez (Spanish). Get it from the market though

chipmonkey · 10/02/2006 22:31

Reminiscing here! In Dublin there used to be a lovely shop called Boswells Sausages who specialised in really meaty sausages made with minced pork and very little else. They had them in a few different flavours and they were sooooo nice. But they went out of business.
The annoying thing is, if a shop like that opened now in the noughties rather than in the eighties, I think they'd do really well.