My friends over at Rate My Sausage have a good look at the Black Farmer Premium Pork Sausage in this review. Wilfred (The Black Farmer) is a really great bloke who has cleverly handled supermarkets so that his brand is not devalued by their normal purchasing practices.

Not only is he a great bloke he is also enthusiastic about the market as a whole and how best he can support it. I met him most recently at the Champion of Champions competition where he gave a nice speech and presented the prizes.

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.