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Giggly Pig
(Romford) - Chipolata
We made the
trip over to Harold Hill, Romford
recently to check out Giggly Pig and
buy a selection for tasting. A
good selection too was obtained
along with the chipolatas, more
about we'll cover separately.
Giggly Pig were the 2011 winner at
the Maldon Best of British Sausage
Awards, so we're on our way.
RM3 9PH in to the sat nav, in to
gear and off we go. Mind you
after a while we find ourselves in a
non-descript car parking / garage
area in Romford! Blooming
technology, we're at the rear of the
shop!
Not a normal high street butchers
shop, as first impression was of a
wholesale premises, which I suppose
is right really. However we
got a good deal on our bag of
sausages (and a pack of back bacon)
which is always welcome.
The chipolatas then...
What struck us was that these
chipolatas were quite short in
length and weighed a lot less
compared with others that we've
sampled. Also the skins on two of
the raw sausages were damaged
probably when being tied and a dob
of the meat from each split had
squashed out in to the pack. OK no
probs, but at £11.99 a kilo, these
are slightly expensive even if they
are 80% meat from "home reared saddle back
pigs".
Cooked up they browned nicely, had a
smooth(ish) texture, crisp skin,
medium bite and a reasonable but
mild taste. All together an OK
sausage but not what we'd be able to
call exceptional. Hopefully
the bigger fellas we also got on our
visit will have more flavour. Now
we're not dissing these completely,
but they wouldn't be something we'd
go and get again if we're honest.
Giggly Pig (Romford) - Chipolata
 (Oct
2012)
Here's the
sample details:
115x18mm before cooking, 115x18mm
after.
27g before cooking, 23g after.
That's a shrinkage of 0% & weight loss of approx
15%.
9 packaged at £2.81 (£11.99/Kg)
www.gigglypig.co.uk
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