Supreme Sausages - Cumberland
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By: Supreme Sausages
Paul Garnish, who owns Supreme Sausages, has picked up the Food and Farming Industrys Retailer of the Year award for his unique mail order sausage club which sees customers get bundles of bangers through the post.
I must admit to being a bit sniffy about Supreme Sausages in the past. I always found the sausages ok (and worth listing as a quality producer) but not especially exciting. Luckily for me I revisited the most popular sausages in the range and was bowled over.
By themselves they were nice with some interesting flavours, especially the sausages featuring apple, tomato and mushrooms. But when we teamed the top selling Old English Pork and Cumberland Sausages with a classic mash and onion gravy combination everything fell into place.
They are the perfect S&M sausage - nicely flavoured with a hint of pepper and spice, finely ground meat and a moist, moorish taste. All the sausages are hand linked and the firm produces 12 flavours of pork gourmet sausages such as Wild Boar & Apples, Pork Venison & Mushroom and Pork & Stilton. They stick to what they know so no lamb or beef sausages.
The sausages are perfectly judged comfort food, made with a high meat content and natural skins. The range does not offer course cut, chunky sausages, instead going for subtle and tasty instead. As such they are very popular with children.
Supreme Sausages sell via mail order and food fairs. They run a very successful Sausage Club with 5,000 members. For £64.10 per year members receive two deliveries of 10 packs of sausages, free postage, a newsletter and offers. Each pack weighs 454g or 1 lb in old money and contains 6 sausages. As the normal pack price is £4 the cost of 20 packs is £80 - so this is a pretty good offer. Delivery is by courier in a well packed, insulated box. Supreme Sausages have kindly agreed to discount this to £60 for Sausagelinks readers - please mention the site when you order to receive this offer.
The Cumberland and Old English score 8.5 out of 10 in our scoring system Highly recommended, join the club!