News
Is the berry sausage really a wet lettuce?
Imagine my excitement rushing to my local Waitrose in Eaton near Norwich to sample strawberry sausages made pretty locally to me.
The sausage selection in the chiller looked pretty standard but on the whole I tend to like the Waitrose offering over the other supermarkets.
I went to the loose sausage counter only to find they had [...]
Recent News
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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
Visit to F. L. Edge
Tuesday the 28th October, 2008 To say Jonathan, who runs F L Edge, is a visionary is an understatement. In a ...
Lincoln Sausage and Potato Festival
I was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the Lincoln Sausage and Potato Festival today. I enjoy riding anywhere ...
Battle of the Bangers Winner
I was delighted to announce Frank Spurgeon Ltd as the winner of both the people's and the expert's choice this ...
Pictures
Champion of Champions sausage-making competition I was delighted to be invited to the MTJ’s Champion of Champions sausage-making competition at Butchers Hall in London yesterday. The venue itself is almost as spectacular as the sausages being entered for the competition. A sausage maker is only allowed to enter if they have won a competition elsewhere during the year. This means [...]
Interviews
Interview with Graham Barnard Today I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Graham Barnard for BBC Radio Norfolk. This was such a pleasure for me because I was last interviewed by Graham about seven years ago when I had just started Sausagefans.com
Sausagefans.com was, initially, set up as a bit of a joke. Coverage in the local and national [...]
Bike
New Bike Norfolk Triumph very generously lent me the Triumph Scrambler for a few months to kick start the Sausage King Adventures. The bike is incredible and I have loved every journey I’ve done on it. The time has come to try another bike now and so yesterday I test rode a couple of replacement options:
The Bonneville
To [...]