Sausage Review - we review sausages

I was presented with a pack of Budgen's own brand "discover the taste" pork chipolatas and what I didn't realise was I was being tested...by my own troops!  Now they wouldn't let me see the back of the packaging which did make me suspicious, but hey, sausages to taste...get the frying pan!

95% pork shoulder and belly in natural sheep casings with pepper, nutmeg and coriander the troops informed me...good stuff eh? 

Well the chipolatas cooked up really well and I was honestly, suitably impressed. A well made sausages with fair taste and just noticeable lingering spice on the tongue and just how I like them...with slightly "snappy skins" ooh err!

Eaten later when cold, they were pretty fair too.  For an own brand supermarket sausage these chipolatas are OK.

The troops did eventually reveal the full packaging and said that the chipolatas were made for Budgen's by a Surrey company established in 1935...with a chairman called Graham White...

Hang on a moment.....Porky White's of Surrey was established in 1935, and the chairman is a Graham White!  Well there's thing...

Would we buy again?  Well they were an OK sausage but at £9.70/kg they're a little expensive if honest...


Budgens - Pork Chipolatas (Jul 2015)

Here's the sample details:
90x20mm before cooking, 90x19mm after.
28g before cooking, 25g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 5% & weight loss of approx 10%.
12 sausages in a 340g pack £3.30  (£9.70/kg)

www.budgens.co.uk