Meat, Sausages & Fish

Halls Haggis - Offal but delish

Advantages: You don't get fed up of it because you only get it once a year.
Disadvantages: Doesn't look very appetising.

Hi folks, I'm back. I haven't managed any opinions the last week due to other commitments. The good news, however, is that I have managed to read and rate everyone elses. Hence the reason, however, that I am writing this opinion 1 week after the Bard's birthday. For anyone unfamiliar with this Scottish tradition - the Bard is the great Robert Burns and we Scots celebrate his birthday on the 25th January each year with the traditional dish of haggis, ...
...I stand by tradition each year and each year I get the same reaction from the kiddie-winks. Yuk!! I don't want that. Haggis is the type of dish you either love or hate - me and my other half love it - the kids hate it. I used to force them to eat it but I have now given up. The product itself does not look very attractive - it is an oval fat sausage shape enclosed in a plastic casing with a metal tie at each end. It is a dark greyish brown colour ...

lorrmid 02.02.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Hall's Haggis

Who's for a lovely Sunday Roast

Advantages: Easy to cook and delicious
Disadvantages: not for vegetarians

Apologies if I start drooling over the keyboard, but just conjuring up the image of these is enough to make my mouth water! Let me explain. THE PACKAGING These Sainsbury’s Lamb Shanks (with a seasoning mix for rich Rosemary Gravy) were from the fresh produce counter and are packs of two. They are packaged in a large clear plastic tub with a removable cardboard label on the outside. Information gained from the packaging tells me that it is ...
...any great comfort - it does not mean that it is organic or necessarily that it was a happy lamb) THE COST Just £2.99 per pack of 2 THE CONTENTS Having taken off the cardboard label and slipped a sharp knife around the top of the carton, I was met with a fairly large sachet of powdered gravy mix and 2 small lamb shanks. By small I mean they were 7” from bone end to end, with most of the meat being at one end. As both my husband and I have ...

Kymbo 09.05.2003 · Read full review
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Billy Bear Sliced Sausage - Reminds me of Nan

Advantages: Tastes lovely, reminds me of nan, quite cheap, easy to find
Disadvantages: None

I've been eating Billy Bear Sliced Sausage for years now, and don't ever intend to give up! Mum started to buy this very yummy meat when me and my brother were very little, to encourage us to eat more, I think, as we were both very fussy eaters when we were small - oh, how times have changed. I couldn't stand meat when I was little and mum tried every which way possible to get me to eat it - then she hit on Billy Bear Sausage Slices and there was ...
...weird and wonderful things, like Billy Bear Sausage. So, she's kind of carried on the 'tradition' and we continue to eat it! I love to eat it with Cadbury's Instant Smashed Potato with baked beans or tinned spaghetti. Dad says it's full of rubbish, and it may well be, but it certainly tastes very nice, so I'm not going to stop eating it. Nan (and mum) buy it from Tesco from the deli counter, and they usually get about ten slices of it. It's not ...

pennywa 03.11.2007 · Read full review
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Which part of the turkey does the bacon come from??

Advantages: Healthy and quite tasty
Disadvantages: None

When I am keeping to my diet ( when!!!) Mattesons Turkey Rashers will always be found on my shopping list and in my fridge. These turkey rashers are available in two varieties - plain and smoked; and they are a great alternative for people who do not eat red meat, do not eat pork for religious reasonsor who are watching their weight but still fancy a bit of a 'bacon fix' ! Mattesons are a well know name in the cooked meat business and it is the ...
...are on sale at the moment for £1.85 for a 150g pack WHAT ARE TURKEY RASHERS The Turkey rashers consist of meat that comes from the turkey thigh and it is chopped, and reformed into strips that is supposed to look like 'real' bacon. Turkey rashers have been designed and produced as a healthy alternative to bacon, they are lower in fat and calories than pork bacon but can be similar in flavour. They can also be used in the same way as traditional ...

oldchem 12.06.2009 · Read full review
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A healthy sausage

Advantages: low in fat
Disadvantages: not for everyones taste

...local farm shop preferably or Bowyers sausages. Bowyers are the only sausages I will buy for myself from the supermarket as I detest the taste of all the others. As there is no picture here I can tell you that Bowyers sausages are easy to locate amoungst the huge array that is offered these days in our supermarkets as the external packaging is mostly green with the main wording on the packet saying 'Less Than 5% fat' with the 5% being in the largest ...
...nothing unusual to look at, they are sausages after all and not something invented in a laboratory, they have a slightly darker pink look about them compared to Walls sausages and a nice sausage meat aroma when you initially open the packet. Inside my packet I have eight sausages which for a family of four is a nice size, 2 each with nothing left over, there is nothing I hate more than having more than you actually need. Cooking the sausages, again ...

Julieshobs 19.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Bowyers 95% Fat Free Sausages