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Post by Moose on Oct 7, 2022 2:21:29 GMT
Col bought me one of these today - not had one in ages. I think they've changed the recipe since I was a child but .. still good.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 7, 2022 8:12:47 GMT
I remember the adverts better than the actual sausage. Is it quite dense like a Peperami?
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 7, 2022 21:52:14 GMT
Sausage is an open category. There is considerable variation. Rather like cheese.
How does this product compare to, say, Cumberland sausage? Is it a cured sausage or does it need to be cooked before it is consumed?
Me? I'm a big fan of breakfast link sausages. I usually get by with Jimmy Dean's Original Heat'n'Serve links, but when I splurge for the good stuff, I buy Johnsonville Original links. They need to be fried up and that fragrance is heavenly. The thing is, I need to have another person help me consume them, so I don't eat the whole lot in one go. So, I'm waiting for my houseguest to return from Disneyland.
I did enjoy the native Cumberland sausage and recommend it to any and all travelers to the Lakes and nearby environs.
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Post by Moose on Oct 7, 2022 23:17:10 GMT
This comes ready cooked but can be reheated. It's not exactly a frankfurter type but more like that type than like a Cumberland
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 8, 2022 0:15:11 GMT
This comes ready cooked but can be reheated. It's not exactly a frankfurter type but more like that type than like a Cumberland Like, say, a bratwurst? That is to say, a bratwurst purchased packaged here is usually pre-cooked and can be eaten without cooking or reheating, although reheating is very common (as are most frankfurters). Of course, I tend to think of bratwurst (brats, here) as being fairly close to being 'bangers'; I'm not sure of any significant differentiation. When I think of cured sausages, I think of salami and pepperoni. Here, they are usually sliced thin and uncooked as snack or sandwich fillings or placed atop pizza.
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Post by Moose on Oct 8, 2022 23:20:08 GMT
Yes sort of like a bratwurst I think delicious
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Post by kingedmund on Oct 11, 2022 2:36:03 GMT
This sounds wonderful.
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Post by Moose on Oct 12, 2022 0:23:05 GMT
It's sort of considered cheap trashy food but it is very good
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 12, 2022 14:01:06 GMT
Yeah...Just like 'smokies'. L'il Smokies wrapped in 'blankets', aka 'piglets in a blanket'.
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Post by Moose on Oct 12, 2022 23:27:44 GMT
Fairly similar yeah. Lovely stuff.
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Post by kingedmund on Oct 17, 2022 14:19:21 GMT
I love lil smokies like that. I sometimes make that for myself.
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 17, 2022 17:13:05 GMT
I love lil smokies like that. I sometimes make that for myself. Oh, yeah....L'il smokies in sleeping bags is top rate.
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Post by kingedmund on Oct 19, 2022 14:09:44 GMT
I don’t know about sleeping bags since I’ve never had one.. 😂
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Post by Moose on Oct 26, 2022 23:19:27 GMT
Never had a sleeping bag?
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Post by kingedmund on Nov 11, 2022 16:16:32 GMT
Nope. I camped once. And my style is not camping. Get me an Air BNB with a bed and a shower.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 12, 2022 1:00:26 GMT
Nope. I camped once. And my style is not camping. Get me an Air BNB with a bed and a shower. Heh...You sound like my wife. She insisted that hostelling was as 'primative' as she would go. She thought of 'camping' as synonymous with 'hiking', like walking miles to fix an inadquate sorta hot meal from freeze-dried packets and shiver in the cold on the hard ground all night. She'd never heard 'camping' with the car well within view and big cushy air mattresses, but she still wasn't convinced.
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Post by Moose on Nov 12, 2022 1:02:37 GMT
I like camping but admittedly I do like to be near home comforts too - a nice pub with restaurant, for instance. But there's something magical about a tent to me
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Post by Kye on Nov 12, 2022 1:26:42 GMT
I like camping. My best trip was canoe camping with my then-boyfriend and my 11 year old daughter in Algonquin Park, kilometers from civilization. We had to portage the canoe to get to the camping spot and hang all the food so the bears couldn't get to it. Fun times.
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Post by tangent on Nov 12, 2022 9:54:20 GMT
I spent five weeks camping around Scandinavia with some university friends. Temperatures ranged from a heatwave in Oslo to the frozen ice at the top of Norway's highest mountain. Camping overnight on a glacier - strictly speaking the cirque lake at the head of the glacier - was the most memorable as well as being the coldest. It was a great experience.
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Post by JoeP on Nov 12, 2022 11:07:41 GMT
How did we get from Matteson's sausage to camping in Norway?
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Post by Moose on Nov 13, 2022 0:00:04 GMT
Well, camping requires camp cooking and one might cook matteson's sausage over a campfire?
Or - I don't actually know.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 13, 2022 3:09:32 GMT
Heh...It was my reference to smokies wrapped in pastry dough as 'pigs in a sleeping bag'.
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Post by kingedmund on Nov 18, 2022 14:32:25 GMT
🤣 true.
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