Friday Sausage News - Fruitpig Company Ripping Up The Black Pudding Map!

In case you didn't know, here at Rate My Sausage we ae huge fans of the splendid Fruitpig Company. The quality of their sausages is simply incredible, and they have won our Sausage Of The Year award multiple times. But they don't just make sausages....

You MUST try their black pudding! It is bloody gorgeous. But don't just take my word for it, read this article by acclaimed food writer Andy Newman. BLACK PUDDING ARTICLE

Please spread the word and feel free to spread Mr Newman;s article as far and wide as you can....

Friday Sausage News - Unusual Sponsor For Petting Zoo Pig Enclosure!

It's been causing some alarm among the parents visiting the Tam O'Shanter Urban Farm on The Wirral, but the farm insists that their new pig pen sponsorship deal makes perfect sense.....what do you think?

Read Josh Parry's full report here:

Pig Enclosure Sponsorship

Friday Sausage News - Swimming Club Fund-Raising Sausage Cooking Banned By Council

A children's swimming club in Australia has been ordered to stop its weekly fund-raising sausage What are they going to ban next, deliberately jumping into deep water? Looney left councils are obviously not just an English phenomena....full story below thanks to Peter Theodosiou of the North Shore Times:

Sausage Fund-Raising Ban

Maybe our Australian sausage-blogger mate  Don_Stevens  has some insight for us?

Friday Sausage News - Oxford University Press Bans The Word "Sausage" From Children's Books!

Amazing but true, the word sausage has been banned from children's books in case Muslim readers are offended. For the full story please follow this link:

Don't Mention The Sausages

Friday Sausage News - Sausage Machine Eats Boy! (Nearly)....

Terrifying news from Lincolnshire where six-year-old George L'Estrange has had a too-close encounter with the family sausage-making machine....

As you can see, George did survive his close encounter with the terrible contraption, and is still a fan of sausages (good boy).

You can read the full story courtesy of Metro:  Sausage Machine Accident

Friday Sausage News - Sizzlin' Sausage Saturday!

We've arranged an online Sausage event on Facebook, and we'd be delighted if you joined in!

It's called Sizzlin' Sausage Saturday, and the aim is to impress on our children how fabulous local, traceable meat can be, especially when it's in the form of sausages.  You can find out the rules of SSS on FB, but the basics are thus:

1. Buy sausages from a local butcher, NOT from a supermarket (take a picture of the shop).

2. Prepare and enjoy a meal made that includes sausages (take a picture of the meal).

3. Share the results, including photos and the name and town of the butcher, with like-minded families on Facebook!

Photos can include the food, the butcher, his shop, and your family. Or even your fridge. Or your pet. Go for it....

This is planned for the weekend of 15/16/17 March.

Sign up here:  Sizzlin' Sausage Saturday

See you in March!

Friday Sausage News - Lincoln Sausage Festival 2012

Lincoln Sausage Festival 2012 takes place on Saturday 27 October.  As well as a multitude of great sausages and family-based entertainment, WE WILL BE THERE (along with about 150 other family members....) maybe we'll see you there....

Read all about it here on the This Is Lincolnshire website:

LINCOLNSHIRE-SAUSAGE-FESTIVAL

See you there!



Friday Sausage News - English Football Manager Opens New Butcher

Don't you just hate it when you turn up to open a new hospital wing, day centre, or butchers shop, and someone's forgotten to provide The Ribbon....happens to me all the time.  Well it didn't phase the manager of Derby County, mister Nigel Clough, as you can read in this Derby Telegraph article:

FOOTBALL-MANAGER-OPENS-SHOP

Holbrook Meat Company can be found in Chapel Street, Derby, or you can find out a little more about them on their Facebook page: HOLBROOK-MEAT-SHOP

Friday Sausage News - Screw Found In Morrisons Sausage!

Here's a story featuring supermarket giant Morrison's Thick Pork Sausages....actually, according to their packaging they are called "Pork Thick Sausages", somewhat ridiculously.  We reviewed them earlier this year and found them to be Absolutely Bloody Awful - read for yourself: Morrisons-Review


So when we heard that they are now including an extra ingredient in them, it just had to be good news right?

Wrong.  A Dad in Preston bit into the new ingredient - a metal screw - and his story made headlines in the Lancashire Evening Post:

Dad-Finds-Screw-In-Morrisons-Sausage

YUK!  Avoid....

Friday Sausage News - Ardennes Sausage Awarded Protected Geographic Status

OK, I am confused....saucisson d'Ardenne has been granted protected geographic indication (PGI) status.  Nothing wrong with that, in itself?


What confuses me is why, if a Belgian sausage can gain PGI, can't our very own Lincolnshire Sausage obtain the same status?  It stinks.


You can read the full story, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph, here:

Saucisson-d'Ardenne-Awarded-PGI-Status

Rate My Sausage is proud to promote great British products, and the sooner that the Lincolnshire Sausage is awarded PGI, the better, as this means that huge multi-national beasts such as Tossco won't be able to sell inferior imitations.

Please show your support for the Lincolnshire Sausage - you can make a start by visiting the website of the Lincolnshire Sausage Association:

Lincolnshire-Sausage-Association

Power To The People!