Barretts (Birmingham) -
Pork & AppleWe were at the Essex coast for the day visiting friends and whilst out for a walk, dropped into the Sunday market at St Osyth...hmm a mobile meat shop...sausages perhaps?
Now my wife calls it obsessive behaviour, but I don't when it comes to hunting out varieties of sausage. We're on a mission after all, "So what have you got today for sale my good man?"
Well, some
Pork & Apple (and some Pork, Chilli
& Garlic...about which we'll do
separately as they were much better) for a very good sale
price, went in to the carrier bag.
They certainly looked good in the
packaging, and when cooked up on the
BBQ, not
bad at all in a roll with "summer
slaw" dressing, followed by a
glass of Doom Bar.
OK we did use them entirely for a BBQ as I
wanted to get the troops and others
feedback on them. When I say
not bad, we mean they were OK. Not a
lot of apple flavour though, and the
texture was on the smooth and soft
side, good skins albeit quite fine,
but I suppose just an OK sausage never the
less.
The
labelling indicated 52% pork, 10%
pork fat, pork rind, dried apple and
some soya flour and soya protein plus
plenty of E's, well yes OK not the
makings of a premium sausage agreed,
but at "today's sale price" of £5.00 for a
14 sausage 857g pack, what do you expect! Makes
you wonder what the markup on these
were, and what the buy in price from
the wholesaler was too?
The natural skins did brown
nicely, a few minor
splits but none of that annoying
creamy stuff leaking out which does
make a change. Minimal
shrinkage and weight loss...
Eaten cold later, disappointingly very bland
with little seasoning...and
unfortunately, no
apple flavour whatsoever.
The bottom line...sadly nothing to
write home about.
Would we
buy again? Definitely not.
Barretts (Birmingham) - Pork & Apple
(May 2015)
Here's the
sample details:
90x30mm before cooking, 87x30mm
after.
59g before cooking, 53g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 3% & weight loss of approx
10%.
14 sausages in a 857g pack £5.00
(approx £5.83/kg)
Barretts
35 Station Road
Martson Green
Birmingham
B37 7AB
0121 783 7995
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