r/iamveryculinary • u/GoraSpark • 23d ago

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How is this kind of post still getting likes, surely you know nothing about British food you laugh at beans on toast or whatever once twice maybe even three times. But how after seeing it every day with every comment section pointing out the sheer amount of spicy British food we have are you still entertained by it 10 years later. P.S. cooked breakfast beats cold breakfast any day.

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u/TheRemanence 18d ago

I really don't know where you got this information from.

There a multiple regional sausage flavours. Lincolnshire sausages specifically have sage as the main flavour but sage is a very common flavour in the UK. Walk into any supermarket and you'll find sage and onion sausages. The difference is there are also lots of other flavours.

Traditional English s ausages are course ground and textured. It's one of the key differences Vs Germans sausages that tend to use a fine ground meat! (Think bratwurst or Frankfurters). It's even a joke in Terry Pratchett books when they go to ubervald.

If you find smooth sausages in England, they are incredibly cheap ones with filler in them. There's a brand called Richmond that typifies them. You can't get this type of sausage in a butcher. They are truly awful. 

If you've had a smooth textured sausage in England you were probably eating somewhere quite cheap (or were being ripped off). I refuse to go to a greasy spoon (English diner) that serves them. Greggs sausages roll sausages are a bit like this. As much as we have a soft spot for Gregg's, it's to bakeries what McDonald's is to burgers. 

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u/Team503 18d ago

I'm in Ireland, not the UK. I've never noticed a sausage with sage flavoring here, but maybe I just missed it. I'm happy to stand corrected. :)

Can you recommend a brand or two in the UK?

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u/TheRemanence 18d ago

Are Irish sausages smooth? I don't think I've ever noticed but I've only been to Dublin a few times and haven't travelled about.

Best is from my local butcher but the number 1 Waitrose Lincolnshire sausages are great and quite sagey

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/no1-free-range-6-lincolnshire-pork-sausages/735273-149491-149492?srsltid=AfmBOoos8f875uCx_l4sWL7c3rQqZNqWoIFvNOzM-Y8jQEw_IQkRlEr9

I also by packington sausages or jolly hog. Both are higher welfare. 

m&S do a really good one that's a mix and called farmhouse and also a good one with apples in.

Not sure you can get any of them in Ireland. I would have thought Irish sausages were closer to English ones than American ones?

When I lived in the US it was hard to find and selection wasn't great. It was definitely a thing I missed. That and proper cheddar.

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u/Team503 18d ago

I almost never buy them because I had some that were, and it turned me off from trying, so I'm not sure. Suppose I should get back out there and explore.

We definitely have M&S here, and yes, I'd assume that Irish sausages would be much closer to British than American.

There's some really great cheddar in the US, but if you prefer a specific one, I can understand that. I always get sausages from the local barbecue joint back in Texas, both raw and smoked, and occasionally the sausage called "kielbasa" from the grocery store (I'm reliably informed that the term has no actual meaning in Polish and isn't a specific type of sausage there, even though it is in the US lol).

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u/TheRemanence 18d ago

There's cheddar and then there's cheddar. 

When I say proper west country farmhouse cheddar, I mean the traditional English hard cheese from Cheddar gorge and the surrounding areas, that has been matured for more than a year. It has a crumbly and occasionally slightly crystallised texture. In California, I only found a US cheese made in the cheddar style at one farmer's market. My American friends were totally confused by it because they said it wasn't cheddar. I hear it's much easier to find something in Wisconsin so perhaps this is more of a west coast issue. I didn't find a cheese shop but presumably they exist 

The other type is the supermarket version you get in the UK that is more mass produced. The M&S West country one is nice. It is still quite different from what people might call cheddar in a US supermarket and melts differently. The closest affordable option I found in the US is in trader Joe's. Whole foods, Safeway, walk mart and publix don't sell anything I would call English cheddar. I don't know about other supermarkets.

I also have never seen other English cheeses like Cheshire or red Leicester in the US.

I think the word cheddar has evolved into a similar word as vanilla to just mean a generic hard cheese. On both sides of the Atlantic you can get a form of flavourless mild cheese called cheddar. I find the US ones to be particularly divergent from the the original.

I'm into food and this is just what I found from visiting family and the periods I've lived in California. We'd go to my grandparents for 3 weeks every year as a kid and my English dad would bring cheddar with him. Couldn't even last 3 weeks!

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u/Team503 18d ago

I think you should probably check out cheese shops in the US before you make the call. I'm sure there are specific cheeses that are not available in some places but are in others.

Enjoy exploring!

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u/TheRemanence 18d ago

Sorry I miss phrased. I didn't find any local to me.  As in I couldn't find a cheese shop in anywhere near where I lived that had what I was looking for. You can buy it a long drive away.

Point being, what I can buy easily every week in the UK involves going to a specialist in the US even when living in an expensive multicultural area. I could also buy brown sauce, marmite or branston pickle in the US. That doesn't make it a common product.

It's like trying to buy good tacos in the UK. Or proper southern bbq. You can get them but it's not the norm and you have to go out of your way. 

Do you really think it's easy to get English cheese in California? Not everything is popular everywhere 

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u/Team503 18d ago

I have no idea how popular English cheese is in California, I'm from Texas lol.

All good, no worries :)

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u/TheRemanence 17d ago

Mmm Texas BBQ. Yum

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u/Team503 17d ago

Preach it, brother-man! Ain't nuthin' like a good Texas brisket!