BS: Great Sausages of Our Time

Subject: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 03:41 PM

Just tried the Paul Rankin Irish Sausage from Sainsburys.

Hell! That's what I call a sausage!

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 03:45 PM

Minds me... anyone know of the Johnny Stey (Stay? or other?) sausage served up in the pubs in Labrador? (Newfoundland?). Bite ya on both ends!

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 03:45 PM

For me it was a polish sausage - cira 1993. Luckily it was 1993 when I encountered it.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: bobad
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 04:00 PM

A great Polish Sausage

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 04:02 PM

Smoked chicken with apple and rosemary.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:29 PM

Where is Dave Kenningham of vintage sausage fame?

Where is Keith (bad influence) Rule, the composer of one of Pig's Ear's anthems, the Sausage song?

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Polite Guest
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:41 PM

"Hell! That's what I call a sausage!"


Big Al! That's what I call my sausage. ;-)

Anyone for a Chipolata?

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 07:47 PM

Tonight we had fresh cumberlands from my local butchers.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 07:58 PM

"I did not have a sausage with that woman"

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 08:27 PM

When I was young, I had an "uncle in-law" who grew up in an area of Texas settled primarilly by Czech immigrants. When he'd go back for a family visit he'd bring back at least 50 pounds of beef sausage made by his relatives. I've never eaten any other sausage that can lay a finger on it. Unfortunately, my aunt to whom he was married died at a relatively early age and he drifted out of our family's life, taking his sausage connection with him.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 08:42 PM

Isn't that the way with all great sausages. There used to be a butcher called Keith Poynter in Heanor Derbyshire and people used to queue outside his shop for his pork pies and sausages - particularly at Christmas.

To be honest Christmas isn't the same without one of Keith's growlers on Boxing Day.

He finally retired. But the memory of his sausage lives on.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 09:36 PM

My family used to get these great sausages from a guy in Chicago named Adolph Luetgert. Dunno whatever happened to him.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 08:35 AM

"He finally retired. But the memory of his sausage lives on."

LOL.....yeah except for those who croaked from coronary artery disease, morbid obesity, colon cancer, and heart attacks! LMAO.......Yes the great sausages do live on though in many of us thanks to hundred of thousands of by-passes, angioplasties, other sugeries, and the wonders of modern drugs..............myself included. Hard to pass up great sausage....................

Spaw{;<))

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 08:37 AM

I dunno about that, Spaw. I pass great sausages with little difficulty a few hours after I eat them. I've even passed them up if I've had a bit too much of the Old Turkeyfeathers.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: bubblyrat
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 02:13 PM

"Pussers" ( ie Official Royal Naval Issue ) sausages were not too bad at all, as I recall---especially in a sandwich at around 0200 if one was on watch at that time. A friend of mine, who was working for a while at the Royal Naval Physiological Laboratory , tested a Naval sausage to destruction, and it survived a pull of four and a half ounces before splitting.....They don't make 'em like that any more !!

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: mandotim
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 04:50 PM

French/Breton Merguez; impossible to barbecue without setting the place on fire; full of good meat (either beef or lamb), sea salt from the Ile de Normoutier, and fiery hot harissa paste from Morocco. Good ones are a treasure.
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 08:34 AM

Basque chorizo.

Linguaca.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Grab
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 12:12 PM

Our comparative testing of Waitrose sausages revealed that Lincolnshire sausages were best in the regular sausage size, whereas Cumberlands were best as chipolatas. Cumberlands are also the best cold. Not tried Sainsburys ones for a bit, but last time we did a check across supermarkets, Waitrose had the best.

Newmarket sausages can be good too, but the ones from shops tend not to be as good - you need to get them from a proper butcher.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jun 08 - 09:26 AM

Drisheens.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Sausages of Our Time
From: ossonflags
Date: 07 Jun 08 - 09:44 AM

Snorkers!!! good-oh!!!

These are the best I have ever tasted;

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