Sausages

[matchmaker]

I despair of my younger son. Sausage, mash and onion gravy for dinner tonight. The sausages were Aldi Ultimate Pork (90% pork). He however, refuses to eat them. His preference? Richmond Irish Recipe (42% pork)



You can tell the difference. The Aldi ones are filled with a nice coarsely chopped pork and herbs. They taste very nice. The Richmond ones are filled with a pink sludge. They look - and taste - horrible.

I will have to educate him. At 20, though, he may be past saving

[scjgreen]

Let him cook his own Dinner?

[calibrax]

The kid is partly right.

Sausages should not be anything like 90% meat. You need the non-meat content to make it a real sausage. But I agree that the Richmonds isn't great on the texture, there are better options.

In the same way, I believe that fish fingers should not be "100% cod fillet" - that's not a fish finger, it's just a smaller version of a normal portion of fish!

[matchmaker]

scjgreen said:

Let him cook his own Dinner?

This is becoming an option!

[430T]

I rather like the Richmonds ones

[Pferdestarke]

So 90% of yours is made from pork. But it doesn't say which bits of pork. The Richmond versions have a softer texture and are mixed with cereal, and the same finer ground bits of pig that the Aldi ones are made from.

One isn't better than the other, they're just different. I'd say both are fairly crappy products and aren't very good for you.

I'm not really a fan of sausages. As you can tell.

[Flibble]

Proper sausages seem to be around 70-81% pork from what I can tell, 90% is a little high.

These guys do some nice sausages: http://www.sausages.co.uk/

[W00DY]

I normally think 90% feels slighlty too high, but I had some nice Co-op ones the other day at about 92.

Certainly I'd prefer just about anything to the Richmond ones which are grim. It's not the content that bothers me, rather the taste and texture.

However 20 and fussy about the type of sausages? That's just tragic.

[Murph7355]

W00DY said:

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However 20 and fussy about the type of sausages? That's just tragic.

This - especially when getting his food cooked for him. Touch of the effetes going on there. You need to have words

(Porky Whites Surrey sausages are the best supermarket ones I've had. No idea what %age of meat is in them, but they're very nice.)

[zygalski]

Flibble said:

Proper sausages seem to be around 70-81% pork from what I can tell, 90% is a little high.

These guys do some nice sausages: http://www.sausages.co.uk/

I agree.
Ironically you do need some of the fat & fillers or else the 90%+ pure pork meat sausage can seem very dense & dry.

[matchmaker]

Murph7355 said:

W00DY said:

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However 20 and fussy about the type of sausages? That's just tragic.

This - especially when getting his food cooked for him. Touch of the effetes going on there. You need to have words

He is an art student. Enough said?

[jmorgan]

Get mine from a butcher. Anything in a packet is a last resort. Even the finely minced ones from the butcher are great.

[Mr Roper]

I now have a craving for some Pork & Leek sausages...may have to swing by the butcher on the way home.

[denchy1]

I dont understand the logic and wouldn't even class a richond sausage as a proper sausage it doesnt even look like a mix but a weird pink concotion inside. But my flatmate will only eat richmond sausages, says any others taste funny. Its not even like he skimps on any of his other food just sausages.

[HarryFlatters]

430T said:

I rather like the Richmonds ones

Me too, on a roll, with lots of tomato ketchup... it really sorts out a hangover.

[otolith]

The trouble with eating st is that you might start to like it.

We get our sausages from a local butcher, and they are delicious. And they aren't so full of fat that you get a Piper Alpha disaster reconstruction when you stick them on the barbecue.

[CDP]

matchmaker said:

He is an art student. Enough said?

Well think yourself lucky he's still eating meat then.

[otolith]

CDP said:

matchmaker said:

He is an art student. Enough said?

Well think yourself lucky he's still eating meat then.

Maybe he's gradually going veggie, hence preferring the hardly any meat sausages?

[CDP]

Had one of their "Simply Pork" sausages at Hebden Bridge on Saturday in a fresh piece of bread. Probably one of the best I've ever tasted. Maybe a proper indie butcher might help him mend his ways.

http://porcus.co.uk/ourfood.htm#sausages

[hairykrishna]

matchmaker said:

I despair of my younger son. Sausage, mash and onion gravy for dinner tonight. The sausages were Aldi Ultimate Pork (90% pork). He however, refuses to eat them. His preference? Richmond Irish Recipe (42% pork)

My OH is the same. Has to be Walls or Richmond pink slime. Decent butchers sausages or posh supermarket ones are no good, apparently.