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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #5 of 13 - Carl Dunham - Boston
Our second Boston butcher, and they have their work cut out to match up with Bycroft's bangers. Carl Dunham's is a small, family concern with a loyal local following, and pride themselves on providing...
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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #6 of 13 - FM Lyell - Boston
Our third Bostonian butcher is Lyell's, and if Rate My Sausage judged purely on warmth and helpfulness I would have to close down right now, because these people are unsurpassably lovely. But we're...
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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #7 of 13 - Sainsburys Lincolnshire Pork Sausage
It's part seven of our Lincolnshire sausage season and our first trip down the polished aisles of the supermarket. Sainsburys supermarket to be precise, last week voted seventh out of nine in a UK...
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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #8 of 13 - Redhill Farm Free Range Pork
Have you heard of Fifty Shades Of Grey? Maybe not the kind of thing you’d talk about in front of the vicar or your nan, but it was a global sensation. Well take a look at the photo of the two chaps...
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Southern & Thorpe - Ruskington - Chicken & Sage Sausage (aka Chicken...
We’ve tasted sausages from this place before and we were very impressed. Last time we tried their Lincolnshire sausages as the first part of Lincolnshire Sausage Season (further reviews coming soon, by...
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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #9 of 13 - Simpsons - Sleaford
Simpsons is a chain of butchers in Lincolnshire, and are part of the Q Guild – this is a real mark of excellence, and my dealings with them have so far confirmed that they are deserving members. If you...
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Squig - Morrisons (at the moment) - Square Cumberland Sausage
Square sausage, is it a thing? Yes it blooming well is, our celtic friends in the north (i.e. Scotland) have been producing lovely “square slice” since before Braveheart could even spell the word...
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Pigs In Blankets Taste Test - Christmas 2018
Pigs in blankets are the best part of your Christmas dinner, but why do people insist on buying the ready-made, tiny monstrosities from the supermarkets? We always make our own so we have gone beyond...
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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #10 of 13 - Odlings - Navenby
Where to start with this well-known, well-loved Lincolnshire butcher. Speaking with uber-Stan Dan Mitchell I found out so much about this business. To discover the full, fascinating history of this...
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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #11 of 13 - Pick's - Dorrington
Picture the scene. The Famous Five are riding their bicycles en route to Aunt Fanny’s cottage on Kirrin Island where they expect to discover and take down a counterfeit cigarette operation run by the...
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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #12 of 13 - Ancaster Butchers
Ancaster is an attractive village in south Lincolnshire, halfway between Sleaford and Grantham. In days gone by it was a Roman settlement and it lies on the Roman road Ermine Street, where said road...
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Lincolnshire Sausage Season #13 of 13 - Hargraves - Pinchbeck - Old Style...
Pinchbeck can be found two miles north of Spalding. On Knight Street, just around the corner from the thousand year-old church, past the football ground, and on the other side of the road you will find...
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Dorset Meat Company - Pork Sausage - Reviewed by Boris the Irish Water Spaniel
We’re not known for innovation but we think this is a first – the world’s first ever sausage review written by a dog. In this case written by Boris the Irish Water Spaniel.....here he is....As promised...
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Wetherills - Sleaford - Plain Pork Sausage
“Local Lincolnshire pork sausages med by a yeller belly...”Have you ever heard the phrase “No Frills” when applied to goods or businesses? It’s fairly synonymous with the words basic, rough, cheap, and...
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Ancaster Butchers - Sleaford - Pork & Tomato Sausage
I popped into the Bristol Arcade in Sleaford to find some interesting bangers, and visited Ancaster Butchers’ (fairly) newly opened premises. Times must be good for this outfit to be expanding from...
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Manor Farm Butchers - Leasingham - Breakfast Sausage
We reviewed some Lincolnshire sausages from Manor Farm in 2016 and were interested to see if standards had been maintained (if you want to read what we said click here MANOR FARM LINCOLNSHIRE). I have...
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Fosters Butchers - Lincoln - Lincolnshire Sausage
I was born in Lincoln and spent the early part of my childhood there. We lived in Spa Street, a neat terrace on a steep hill, leading off the main Monks Road downwards towards the railway lines. It...
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Cottiers - Balderton - Baldo Bangers
We pop just over the border for this review to carry out our first test of a sausage from Nottinghamshire. The small town of Balderton in fact, which is conjoined with Newark. It’s a small and harmless...
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Blessetts - Billingborough - Lincolnshire Sausage
As part of my work as a mental health support worker I spent several months working with a young lad who lived in Billingborough, and would often walk with him past an interesting looking small...
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WH Frost - Manchester - Pork & Wild Garlic Sausage
I say, I say, I say, what do you call a pottymouth Mancunian butcher holding a shotgun? Not a Bernard Manning joke but a genuine description of one of UK butchery’s most controversial figures - real...
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