Sausages
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BlueMoonRisin’
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Sausages need to contain a minimum 42% meat content. However, much of this is mechanically recovered meat as well as minced up fatty cheap bits of pig shite that you really don't want to think about! And lets not forget the other nasties that your well packaged "award winning" factory processed banger contains such as artificial colour, MSG, Emulsifier, excess salt, sodium nitrite, stabilisers, potassium, poly phosphates, preservatives, plus various E-numbers.
My advice is find a good traditional butchers who's sausage are likely to have good meat content made up of recognised cuts of meat such as shoulder, neck and belly. Most good butchers sausages contain proper meat, rusk and seasoning without the need for preservatives and the rest of the stuff used in factory production.
I travel 6 miles to Bateman's butchers on Oldham rd Hathershaw, Oldham. £2.50 a lb for top quality sausage made only of pork shoulder and seasoning. The meat he uses is so lean he has to add fat! No preservative in these so they need to be eaten within 3 days or they start to go sour. He sells 600lb a week so he's obviously doing something right.
Also Pearsons butchers in Ashton market hall are also top quality and they do many different types, all good stuff.
My advice is find a good traditional butchers who's sausage are likely to have good meat content made up of recognised cuts of meat such as shoulder, neck and belly. Most good butchers sausages contain proper meat, rusk and seasoning without the need for preservatives and the rest of the stuff used in factory production.
I travel 6 miles to Bateman's butchers on Oldham rd Hathershaw, Oldham. £2.50 a lb for top quality sausage made only of pork shoulder and seasoning. The meat he uses is so lean he has to add fat! No preservative in these so they need to be eaten within 3 days or they start to go sour. He sells 600lb a week so he's obviously doing something right.
Also Pearsons butchers in Ashton market hall are also top quality and they do many different types, all good stuff.
goat boy
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Im increasingly of the persuasion that red meat and related products really ought to be the supplied by a reputable butcher, and only by a reputable butcher.
daveduke67
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goat boy said:
I've never had braising steak from my local butchers that shrivels up to half its size and turns my casserole into soup! Bacon from him shrinks by less than 10%, Asdas bacon by about 50%. Fruit and veg off the market lasts twice as long as the stuff from the supermarket - and it's fresh and seasonal not stored in nitrogen for a year. Never had a lump of indistinguishable gristle in the local bakers pies or pasties. Their bread lasts a day as its free of preservatives -saying that it isn't soggy, tasteless and doughy to start off with.
The sooner people realise that supermarkets are screwing their suppliers, and as a consequence we're having shite fobbed off on us in the name of keeping the price of our food down, the better.
The high street will never be the same thanks to the internet but we should use our small local food suppliers wherever possible. If we don't they'll be gone before long along with all the small businesses forced to shut down thanks to the greedy supermarkets.
andyhinch
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Very much this, the farmers that supply them, chat to them. Or go to Tesco, there's no social integration, know where your meat comes from and the animal it once was, not just a vacuum packed bit of meat. I've probably met most of the cows/lambs I've eaten, can't say the same for chickens, but I don't like them that much.daveduke67 said:
doots
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Webbs Butchers in Northwich do the best bangers ever.
bumbleblue
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oh starving now...you bastards .
BlueMoonRisin’
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Just googled it. Someone revued it saying their tomato sausages are good, used to love a good tomato sausage. May have to pay them a visit when i'm in the area next.doots said:
mindmyp's_n_q's
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Oven. The only thing that will improve your diet is money (in general). A study in America showed that if you eat everything grown/reared within a small area from where you live (local) it will have almost zero effect on your health.
