Third up in
the Bury St Edmunds run are the Special Shop-made Pork sausages from Cherrytree
Butchers. You’ll find them halfway up
Buttermarket, slap bang in a great position to make the most of the thronging
passing trade on market day. Yet when I
visited them the shop was deserted.
Empty as I stood outside for a moment or two before entering, it remained
empty when I was inside, and stubbornly failed to attract a single punter while
I took photos after buying the bangers.
What’s going on?
The shop is
clean, staff friendly, nothing obviously amiss here. But no customers? That’s surely a bad sign, especially on
market day. I’ve been to lots of market
towns in my time, but the hustle and bustle and sheer numbers of people out and
about around the stalls and streets in Bury when I was in town was incredible. So, logically, either A) I just happened to
visit Cherrytree at a rare and unlikely dip in trade, or B) the locals don’t
rate them. Compare this with the hive of
activity at the Meat Inn just a few minutes later.
Meat
Content:
Good
enough. Adequate. Sufficient.
Not outstanding terminology to describe these sausages but they were better
than I expected (oh when will I become completely un-prejudicial?), and my
expectations were based purely on the level of trade in the shop. We’ve reviewed worse sausages and many, many
better ones too, and there’s just not too much that can be said about these.
Flavour:
The first
impression as written on the notes “not as bad as I feared”. The theme of mediocrity continues though. The seasoning is subtle to the point of
absent, and the pork flavour is all on its own inside the skin. It’s not bad, it’s....it’s....nice. Just....nice.
If you were served this sausage as part of your £3.29 greasy spoon
fry-up you’d be pretty chuffed as they’re a couple of leagues above the usual
crap you’d receive, but as a butcher’s own banger – which the butcher has
chosen to call “special” – they’re nowt special at all.
Texture:
Very
smooth, quite juicy, totally unsurprising.
Every slice is exactly the same, these sausages are uniform
throughout. They need some variation in
texture, in flavour, just something to lift them from being blandly
predictable. These sausages looked
pretty good before cooking too, what a shame they didn’t taste as interesting.
Shrinkage:
Average
weight uncooked - 61g
Average
weight cooked - 48g
Shrinkage -
21%
Unsurprisingly....average.
Value For
Money:
£2.01 for
six sausages, weighing 367g - this works out as a price of £5.49 per kg, or 33p
per snorker.
Cheap and
cheerful says it all really. OK if you’re
on a tight budget.
Opening
Hours:
Monday: 0700-1700
Tuesday: 0700-1700
Wednesday: 0700-1700
Thursday: 0700-1700
Friday: 0700-1700
Saturday: 0700-1700
Sunday: Closed
And
Finally, Esther:
The second
best banger in Bury....so far....and out of three....but given the choice I’d
walk to Hubbards.
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