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    Pork pie revelations

    I’ve avoided pork pies for years. Depressed by their (sometimes) pink interiors and jelly-clad compressed mushiness and mortified to read the ingredient lists and see hosts of words I can’t pronounce, I have always given them a wide birth.

    Today was the start of the rest of my life in terms of pork pies when I happened to meet two of the Bray’s Cottage ladies at Norwich Farmer’s market. In the same way as I think you can tell a lot about a butcher by their “standard” pork sausage I took the same approach with a “standard” pie although I was very tempted by some of the more exotic offerings.

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      • About the Sausage King Adventures

      I started www.sausagefans.com as a joke in about 2000. The website became popular after being covered extensively on the TV, radio and in various national and local newspapers. What started as a joke is now a resource which gets several million hits a year.

      In about 2003 or so the press began to refer to me as The Sausage King which I thought was a fantastic nickname and I am delighted it has stuck. Watching The Long Way Down a couple of years ago I was frustrated that Ewan and Charlie didn't stop in more places to take in more of the countries they were riding through but I was inspired to make a motorbike powered trip of my own around the UK.

      At a time when UK pig farmers are struggling in the face of cheaper and inferior imports I am doing my bit to raise the profile of the UK sausage and encourage people to buy local. The Sausage King Adventures are a series of motorbike trips around the UK to a variety of sausage makers who have been recommended to me. I hope to find the best of British!

    Visits

    featuredimage The hunt for ham - The FruitPig Company

    As we get nearer to Christmas as well as hunting for the perfect sausages I have widened my search to ...

    featuredimage Goodies Farm Shop Christmas Fayre

    I was delighted to be invited to visit Goodies Farm Shop Christmas Fayre. Goodies, based in Pulham, Norfolk, are ...

    featuredimage FruitPig Company sausages

    As regular readers will know I am a big fan of FruitPig Company sausages. I first tried them back ...

    Pictures

    Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference British Pork & Caramelised Red Onion Sausage

    The people behind Rate My Sausage are now looking at supermarket sausages. What an excellent idea. Visiting your local butcher might not always be practical so it’s excellent to know what else is on offer. In this review they look at Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference range and try the pork and caramelised red onion sausages.

    Interviews

    Interview with Georgina Wroe

    Today I was delighted to be on BBC Radio Suffolk again as the Sofa Guest on the Lesley Dolphin show. Georgina Wroe was sitting in for Lesley and we had a great chat for about an hour. The link below is to a cut down version of the interview with some compression.

    Source: BBC [...]

    Bike

    Practice ride

    Tom (my brother in law) and I are planning a ride to the four corners of the UK from Lowestoft to John O’Groats to Land’s End and then Lizzard Point. Originally the plan was to just ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End but we’ve developed it since.