Whatever Has Happened To Sausages?
 

I only ask because normally I stab the hell out of them stick 'em under the grill, onto a couple of lumps of bread and chew.
Today, I noticed a difference, I was reading the instructions on what can and can't be recycled amongst the ridiculous amount of packaging (remember the days we bought them and they simply came in a wrapping of grease proof paper from the butcher) Anyhow, whilst squinting at the tiny printing that is mandatory on all such articles, I noticed the cooking instructions, mainly:-
FOR BEST RESULTS DO NOT PIERCE THE SKIN
(no I'm not shouting just making sure you can read it).
Surely the P.C. brigade hasn't enforced some rule against cruelty to sausages?
Anyhow I'd already pierced and cooked my sausages and we are both fine so I just wonder what is supposed to be different?

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You know what?
I've just realised why more women are free to get full time jobs!
Back in time when as above we got things from the butcher to be used on that day, the ladies couldn't contemplate going out to work, it wasn't anything to do with the falsehood of being tied to the kitchen sink. It was because they spent most of their day queuing for daily supplies from the butchers, bakers and light bulb makers (more modern than candlesticks but because they were unreliable lasted about as long).
It was the introduction of the supermarket & the freezer that gave them the 'freedom' to work full time.

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[QUOTE=Less;1255649]I only ask because normally I stab the hell out of them stick 'em under the grill, onto a couple of lumps of bread and chew.
Today, I noticed a difference, I was reading the instructions on what can and can't be recycled amongst the ridiculous amount of packaging (remember the days we bought them and they simply came in a wrapping of grease proof paper from the butcher) Anyhow, whilst squinting at the tiny printing that is mandatory on all such articles, I noticed the cooking instructions, mainly:-
FOR BEST RESULTS DO NOT PIERCE THE SKIN
(no I'm not shouting just making sure you can read it).
Surely the P.C. brigade hasn't enforced some rule against cruelty to sausages?
Anyhow I'd already pierced and cooked my sausages and we are both fine so I just wonder what is supposed to be different?

I have always assaulted, Stabbed, Pricked my bangers before sticking them under the grill for the simple reason that it stops them banging, (bursting),I really must read the the instruction next time I may have been doing in wrong for the last sixty years or so.

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Same for me, always stab them before cooking, in some cases when the sausages are a large size, I slightly nick them with a sharp knife, two strokes on each size.

Cheers

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Thank you for the response, it is reassuring to know that it's not just me that treated sausages in a horrific manner just to get the perfect butty, but, neither of you have answered the question, what has happened to sausages, why is it now safe to cook minced meat in intestines in fact better, to do so (according to instructions) without pricking them & how come therefore they don't go bang?

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[QUOTE=Less;1255689]Thank you for the response, it is reassuring to know that it's not just me that treated sausages in a horrific manner just to get the perfect butty, but, neither of you have answered the question, what has happened to sausages, why is it now safe to cook minced meat in intestines in fact better, to do so (according to instructions) without pricking them & how come therefore they don't go bang?

I have heard a theory that some of these frozen, ready wrapped bangers are not enclosed in animal intestines as they used to be but instead are encased in some sort of man made substance; whether this is right or not I cannot comment.

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Perhaps so, but these weren't frozen, they were supposedly high quality what the butcher made for the supermarket.

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Must admit to being a puncturer of the sossy, tends to stop them going all explosive in the frying pan. As to the reasoning behind not giving them a good stabbing I can only assume it's some kind of B&Q, DIY conspiracy!


If you blow yer sossys up & end up scraping them off the kitchen surrounds you're going to have to re-decorate at some point & that costs you, follow the money, so yeah, it's a conspiracy. :D

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[QUOTE=DaveinGermany;1255700]
If you blow yer sossys up & end up scraping them off the kitchen surrounds you're going to have to re-decorate at some point & that costs you, follow the money, so yeah, it's a conspiracy.
What! not another one. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

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I must admit to buying Maple BBQ Chicken sausages.
I`m usually spitting feathers for a cup of tea afterwards.
You should try some Less..

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Unless a sausage is guaranteed organic, the casings are synthetic...man made...usually from collagen.

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Just been down to the supermarket and took a moment or two to look at sausages. I didn't find any that suggested you should not prick them. In fact by comparison with other products there was in general little advice given, mainly can/cannot freeze, make sure cooked all the way through. Didn't look at all the sausages but did look at enough to suggest 'don't prick' advice was rare if existant at all in this supermarket.

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There's a few Pubs & clubs you might get better results from if that's what scratches your itch mate! :D:D


(PC can kiss my hoop!) :rofl38:

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Most serpently! Conspiracies abound my dear Tadster, you need to check your Ale mate, it's called Hobgoblin for a reason, come closer while I whisper you the horrible truth ..... come on, come here, lean in a bit (quick shufty round the room ...ok) it's distilled Hobby widdle mate .... shush shush, don't go spitting it all over the shop, yeah a fella down the boozer told me & he "worked" for the "Sunday Sport" so it must be true! :D

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I know the guy your talking about!
Well, when I say I it’s not someone I’ve actually met but a mate of my cousins ex wife’s tarot card reader has dreamed about him.
And he reckons that guy from the Sunday Sport had his own pencil sharpener supplied by the company, a rumour was started that he broke the blade putting the rubber end of the pencil in by mistake.


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[QUOTE=DaveinGermany;1255745]Most serpently! Conspiracies abound my dear Tadster, you need to check your Ale mate, it's called Hobgoblin for a reason, come closer while I whisper you the horrible truth ..... come on, come here, lean in a bit (quick shufty round the room ...ok) it's distilled Hobby widdle mate .... shush shush, don't go spitting it all over the shop, yeah a fella down the boozer told me & he "worked" for the "Sunday Sport" so it must be true!

Oh, what a cracker, this must be the best post that I have ever heard since I decided to try to be less of a Luddite and at least (try) to join the modern day society, which I am not doing to well at; please keep them coming. I have not given you a (like) because other folk reckon that I am trying to hog the limelight.

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Eggzakerly!! That's him! Or should that be Edd Sackerly? Yeah well, whatever, that's him right enough. :D

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Edd Sackerly was the name he used in the paper when disreporting events, in real life his name was (deleted by moderators).

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Neither here or there to me bud, if it makes folk chuckle, sends the thread off on tangents & gets folk joining in with the foolishness & frivolity ...... well all the better says I. :)

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I gave that a like because it fits in with the way I run my life.

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That seems to be quite a popular name does that, along with Aywaytin Moderashun (sounds a bit foreign to me, must be from down south somewhere)

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Ooh, check us out, they'll be telling us to get a room next!



:oke2:time to "Go poke the woke!" :D

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all i know is i never buy sausages or bacon from supermarket cos they are crap and full of water. always get em from butchers except once when my butcher was away, so i proved it to myself then.

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So, we have a right little doubting Thomas to deal with have we?

Just because you haven't found sausages with cooking instructions about not pricking your banger doesn't mean there aren't sausages in that category.
What did you think? Less made it up on the spare of the moment just because he was bored?

Well yes I was bored and AccyWeb as usual could do with a boost be it factual or banal, so after reading these instructions I posted them on site as a fact because they exist, my imagination isn't good enough to invent such a topic.


Below is a link with the instructions mentioned:-

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-G...ucts/280011075

If you look under 'Cooking Precautions' You will find what I said.

I apologise if this thread doesn't meet with your approval and finish with suggesting you start a thread yourself that meets your high standards.

It would make a nice change from everyone else doing the hard work for you.

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1255727]Unless a sausage is guaranteed organic, the casings are synthetic...man made...usually from collagen.

I thought that I had heard somewhere that the skins on some bangers were man made, (sorry ladies, people made) but what is the synthetic material that is used?

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[QUOTE=DaveinGermany;1255751]Neither here or there to me bud, if it makes folk chuckle, sends the thread off on tangents & gets folk joining in with the foolishness & frivolity ...... well all the better says I.

I have changed my mind and given you a well deserved like anyway,it is only one click of the rodent button and as I said it is the best post That I have seen on Accy Web.

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[QUOTE=taddy;1255762]I don’t know exactly what the man made (I have no problems with this terminology)portion of the skin is....but it includes collagen which is a naturally occurring protein....present in the connective tissue of mammals.

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Below is a link with the instructions mentioned:-

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-G...ucts/280011075

If you look under 'Cooking Precautions' You will find what I said.

I have just "Googled", the above, it does not make nice reading; Ingredients, quote, Calcium Lactate, Disodium Diphosphate, Tetrasodium Diphosphate, Sodium Metabisulphate, Filled into Aliginate casings, (SKINS), my words. now then, what is Alginate? further googling came up with this, Quote, "with Alginate, meats can be (reconstucted) to resemble traditional cuts".
it is also used in wound dressings and is made primarily from seaweed.
Enjoy, your meal old lad

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1255773][QUOTE=taddy;1255762]

I don’t know exactly what the man made (I have no problems with this terminology)portion of the skin is....but it includes collagen which is a naturally occurring protein....present in the connective tissue of mammals.

Thanks Marge.

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This is one of the reasons that I rarely eat sausages (though I do cook them for the old feller..he likes them)...and if I do have them....I remove the skins once they are cooked.

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[QUOTE=taddy;1255777][QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1255773]You are welcome Taddy

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Quite a full explanation here:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_casing

Though reading through I found this:-

Now I can understand making cases for religious purposes, what I can't get my head around is why a vegetarian would want sausages unless they miss meat so much they have to create poor substitutes to compensate for their bland diet.
A similar amount of puzzlement grips me when I see vegetarian burgers WHY?
Can we come to some sort of agreement? We (the meat eaters) took the humble sausage and burgers to our hearts, we had them first, stop your meddling or we will have to start creating rump steak that looks and tastes to all the world like a Brussels Sprouts or Bacon dressed to look and taste just like a Cauliflower, you veggies just won't know what you're eating. (You have been warned).

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Does it not also puzzle you when you see the adverts for 'The Vegetarian Butcher'?
Tell me Less...is it a legal requirement to stun carrots before they go into some vegetarian dish....do they bleed a lot.

And why would a vegetarian want a non meat burger that bleeds?
Isn't the thought of a 'bleeding burger' just too close to the thing they want to avoid?
I have come to the conclusion that the world has gone quietly and positively insane...and we are only just realising it

I make my own burgers out of lean minced beef and seasonings....nothing else.....if I presented himself with a burger that was bleeding, well I might also be requiring a bit of styptic too

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Oh yes Less...do you know that there are things called a 'Cauliflower Steak'...cut from the widest bit of the cauliflower and fried like you would fry a nice bit of Rump....but believe me it is fooling nobody...it doesn't look like steak and definitely doesn't taste like steak...but it was treated humanely by the Vegetarian Butcher.

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You know Marge I have always had the idea that the females of our species do not have their giggle switches activated at birth but after reading your posts 33 and 34 I am prepared to accept tha "some" of them (do) have a sense of humour.

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Of course I have a sense of humour.
When I was working I was noted for making my patients laugh.
Laughter is most certainly the very best medicine....it is a giggle that give your insides a jiggle...or at least that was what I told my ladies.
There was one antibiotic i used to dole out and say to the ladies it smelled like TCP...they said...'the anti septic'.....I said it was the new to me that Tom Cat Pee was antiseptic.
But I digress...the thread was about sausage skins...then we migrated to Vegetarian Butchers(what a ludicrous idea that is) and now we are on Tom Cat Pee.
That is one hell of a jump.

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Not as wide as you'd think, said Tom cat widdling round by the chinky chuckout could well find himself as the "Chefs Special Sweet & Sour" or "Chefs Crispy fried Surprise" bit of Hoy Sin & Allspice ..... jobs a good 'un. :D

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My immediate thought reading the topic question was - Sausages became bangers and never really recovered.

I don't really enjoy sausages so much. Any recommendations for any home made butcher sausages in accy?

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i think the best sausages are up ossy from the butchers up union rd ossy just past the bubble factory on opposite side of rd we love the pork sausage he makes.used to get them from little blackburn rd accy before we moved up ossy, but think these are superb the one down accy were great also.

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I’m not that keen on sausages but I do like a sausage and onion sandwich now and then, and so I always have a supply in the freezer. I bought some this morning, the label said ‘beef sausages’ and it wasn’t until I got home that I noticed the other little label that informed me they were honey flavoured. What! I ask you, who would want a honey flavoured sausage and onion sandwich. Serves me right for being lazy and buying pre-packed goods.

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In case anyone is interested in the subject of honey-flavoured sausages, though I doubt it, let me tell you that my friend’s dog did not mind the honey flavour at all. Quite enjoyed it, but then she will eat just about anything.