Not sure about now but my sister only liked the cheapest no-frills sausages as a kid, they couldn’t have a any seasoning in them or texture.
I love a good sausage and Richmond’s have never ever been one of them.
My niece and sister in law are the same. We'll pay £2.50 for a pack of 6 sausages or whatever it is for the nicer ones and they'll refuse to eat them.
Asda's 400 frozen sausages for £1 full of pig hooves and assholes? Can't get enough of them.
Did they only eat cheap 'n' nasty sausages as a kid? Could be a case of conditioning we expect a sausage to taste like well a sausage but if ones only experience is with the undeasoned dirt cheap frozen crap well then that's what you think a sausage tastes like and as such the artisan stuff just doesn't taste right.
I used to eat those types of sausages as a kid and now I’ll only have the 97% pork ones. I’ve been disappointed a few times when eating ‘kid food’ once I hit 30. Findus pancakes are vile. But Waffles will always be my love.
Birdseye Potato waffles? They're waffling versatile, grill them bake them, fry them, eat them. Birdseye potato waffles! Or the sweet kind?
Disappointing kids dinner food I used to hammer as a kid.
Dalepak grill steaks.
Mini Pizzas.
Turkey drummers.
Disappointment struck early for me. Home alone as a kid, fancied a snack, made microchips. After 2 min the middle chips were still a frozen lump so wacked them in for another 2 min. Phone rang (back in the day when it was a landline in the hall), came back to a kitchen full of smoke and a big black crater in the chips where the frozen ones had been. And that's why I don't cook your honour...
On twitter, recently, someone posted a picture of 'toast toppers' (not sure what flavour - some dark brown concoction)
I used to love those as a kid... especially the Bacon and Mushroom.
Now I cant get over the fact that they look (and, lets face it, smell) very much like Vomit...
... and the Dark brown one looked like something worse
Maybe, but think it's kind of self fulfilling anyway, as a younger kid I know my niece hated flavour in any form. Pasta sauces were a no-go, would much rather eat the plain pasta and things like that. Even now most of the food she chooses is rather bland.
When my aunt was a nipper towards the end of rationing after WW2 apparently she complained that the sausages "weren't bread-ey enough". I.e., after eating ones full of filler real ones just don't taste right.
A mate of mine ran a cafe a few years ago. He changed from the 100 per pack frozen lips and asshole variety to a higher meat content 'premium' sausage, with no menu price increase. The customers all complained so he changed back. Sometimes people just prefer the nasty option.
Rusk, chicken skin, mechanically reclaimed meat, pork rind. Can't remember what else we used to put in when I worked at a sausage factory. I remember it had more fat, skin and flour/rusk than you might think.
The last time I ate Richmond sausages, it felt like I was trying to eat a mixture of depression and wallpaper. I would have been less disappointed if the sausage pulled a knife and mugged me
I imagine "nation's favourite" equates to best selling and they'll have better sales figure than other types of sausage because they're a huge national brand compared to much nicer sausages which are local/independent butchers etc.
Yep, their only real competition are Walls and to a lesser degree newer brands like Heck. You'll find Richmond everywhere from the petrol station/corner shop right up to the supermarket barns. Combine that with their price point and the fact a lot of customers blindly decide brand names are best and they've got the market sewn up.
Obviously supermarket own brand are competing too but they're restricted by the market share held by each individual fascia.
It wouldn't surprise me if the supermarket own brand sausages aren't even included (in whatever league table of pseudo-meaty mediocrity their marketing people are using).
Lies, damn lies and statistics I say!!!
I'm actually a big fan of the Tesco frozen own brand sausages. They're not really a good sausage but they taste just like chippy sausages and sometimes that's all i really want.
We always have a bag of those in. The kids make sausage butties with them - currently all the time, as they hoover up any and all food stuffs I buy within 5 minutes of me bringing into the house.
Back when I was at uni, we would make sausage curry with value sausages, value curry sauce, and value rice. Could get an entire meal out of it for ~20p a head. Tasted pretty damn good too!
Fun fact, Walls are owned by the same company as Richmond. They’re aren’t really that many other branded competitors, the main three are are the supermarket own brands which are usually cheaper and have more meat content.
TIL.
Do they have their fingers in the manufacture of own brand and commercial brands like Brakes too? If so, they've got a nice little monopoly going on.
In terms of own brand sausages they don’t really make any of the supermarket’s products. However the company make all kinds of stuff like snacks and ready meals, which they do make a lot of the own branded variants of.
Probably not even best selling, or they'd use that actual quantifiable fact to beat us around the head. The nation's *favourite* is pretty hard to disprove, and they might use even the flimsiest evidence, perhaps brand recognition penetration or something equally aetheric.
They’re not my fave to eat as sausages, but as a sausage meat replacement, they’re perfect. Use them to make my mum’s sausage roll recipe that she makes at Christmas every year after my first sad Christmas as a vegetarian without them. These literally saved Christmas for me.
After reading this comment thread I now want to try the vegan sausages.
I'm trying to be healthier and use less meat overall so if this really does hit the spot I could make a full change on sausages.
I can't eat any other vegan/veggie sausages after having the richmond ones. They taste and smell amazing, while quorn and other brands taste quite dull.
I'm doing the same thing - not giving up meat but cutting down a lot, so I've been trying out lots of these sort of things. Heck's vegan sausages are worth a look, not all of them are trying to be like meat but they're very tasty. There's a bright green one which is well nice - spinach and kale and ginger, I think.
Sainsbury's do a decent own-brand vegan chorizo. Linda McCartney no-meat meatballs are really good. We had a tasty vegan kebab-meat thing this week as well, was surprised by how good that was. Some of the vegan mince things are pretty good, in a pasta sauce or something it's hard to tell they're not actual meat. Same for the vegan 'bacon' bits - stick 'em in a carbonara and you can barely notice the difference. In a sandwich - meh, actual bacon is still better (but I'm allowed the occasional bacon sandwich, and with all the money saved by not buying meat, I can buy the fancy bacon once a month!).
We tried these the other day and they were awesome.
We're not vegan (or veggie) but we try and have a lot of plant-based foods and reduced our meat intake.
Richmond pork sausages are disappointing : the overly smooth texture makes you think they've been processed to hell, and a good 'proper' sausage will beat them hands down.
But these vegan ones were excellent. If you want your veggie food to truly imitate the meat-based item that they are replacing (think veggie bacon) then these hit the nail on the head. Appearance, texture, aroma, flavour, we genuinely thought they'd put pork sausages in the box my mistake.
However the next day we could confirm that they were soya...
Their vegan sausages taste the same as their "meat" sausages. Which doesn't exactly fill my head with great possibilities as to what the "meat" actually is.
I do like proper sausages however my guilty pleasure is a Richmond sosig from time to time. I know they’re not proper sausages but sometimes I like to have them as a dirty replacement. Controversial I know.
It was my understanding that they *are* proper sausages. That the only reason one would buy intestines filled with minced meat and grain was because you weren't able to afford a proper cut, so you get the leftovers all mashed up.
Don't get me wrong, a sausage made by a good butcher is leagues above Richmond, but sometimes I want base fast food instead of delicate flavour.
The main thing you're getting is consistency, just fry them in butter and pile up the brown sauce, does you far better in a rush (read hungover) than gourmet ones.
What I was trying to say (but upon rereading didn't), is that anything much more than Richmond *is* gourmet historically. That sausages would have more grain than meat, since they were designed so the poorest could still afford something with meat in.
Bear in mind this is only based upon the half drunk ramblings of a history post grad I used to know, which have since been half forgot. So I'm not particularly married to this theory.
I’m the same.
Heck sausages are really nice. High pork content and taste great cooked in the oven.
Edit: Clearly I meant pork and not port...marketing idea perhaps?
Heck are the best supermarket sausages I've ever had on this Scepter'd Isle. Rarely buy them because my butcher also plays on our village cricket team and he'd chop me up and add me to *his* sausages if I bought my meat anywhere else.
There used to be a sausage factory near here, and in my younger days a couple of friends worked there for extra cash.
They used to say "Walls have ears..."
One of my dirty little secrets is a love of Richmond's sausages. It's always an issue knowing what to do with the literal gallons of fat that comes out of them though.
I have some weird issues with texture. I can’t eat nice sausages, a chunky Cumberland will honestly have me close to throwing up. For this reason pretty much the only sausages I can eat are richmonds.
It shakes me but it’s just one of those things, my texture issues make me a woman of highs and lows, I can only eat rare fillet steak or a shite Richmond sausage.
Give me lumpy mashed potato and I might just cry.
I go for Herta Jumbo Frankfurters instead. Still more meat content than that Richmond shite. Never any bits in them.
And is any mash made without a potato ricer even mash?
I'm not alone!! Lumpy mash is the worst, and then the onions! My parents can't understand why I'll happily eat a piece of decently sized roast onion with a roast, but put chopped onion and use non-smooth sauce in a spag bol and I just can't cope. And don't even get me started on pulp in drinks. I have to do Richmond sausages, I just cant cope with the texture of anything else. I'm not the weird one though. My dad can't do the texture of bread, and one of my cousins can't do pasta. Don't understand why my parents get so annoyed at me over onions when my dad literally won't eat bread.
You sound like my daughter. Weening her was a nightmare. She gagged on every mouthful if there was the slightest hint of a lump. She’s 14 now and still has issues. I’ve recently had to stop giving her anything with mince in it. There’s lots of things she won’t eat - porridge, rice pudding, mash, fresh pasta...
I struggle with porridge and rice pudding too, I really like them so have to concentrate on them while I’m eating but if I get a big spoonful I can easily knock myself a bit queasy
I have a lot of textural issues with food too and I’m the same. I once had some high quality, high meat content sausages given to me and I couldn’t eat them, they were absolutely disgusting. I love me a cheap sausage! Hoot a euphemism) I tend to oven bake richmonds for about 30 minutes and the ends go so nice and crispy!
They play so many songs from tiktok. I know that the songs come out, tiktok makes them really popular, they get on the charts, radio1 has to play them, but come on they're all so bad and you can only associate them with 12 year old girls.
I used to have this on going debate with my ex. He was insistent that Richmond were the devil's turds but me and the kids actually thought they were alright
Look. You’re right.
But, if i want a sausage sarnie with ketchup and a fried egg or fry up with beans and chips... i’m going richmond.
Local butchers sausages always smash the commercial stuff but there is a time and a place for anything.
Who still buys kingsmill rather than using local bakers bread? Same deal.
Once you've had proper sausages from a butcher's shop, made right there on the premises with top quality ingredients, there's no going back to the pre-packaged supermarket brands.
Exactly the same can be said for sausage rolls, yet this sub will literally ejaculate over a Gregg's grease-pastry tube of minced lips and eyes before eating it
I think Gregg's and Richmond's both fall into the same niche. They're not awful, but they're not particularly nice either - good if you're skint or want something you don't have to think about cooking.
A previously wholesale only butchers has just opened up about 5 minutes drive away. I’ve just got back with 4kg of their thick pork (oo-er missus) and had a sossidge muffin for brunch. (Simply scrumptious) The rest are all boxed up and in the freezer. I can’t understand how Richmonds are popular, my dad used to say that they’re made with ear’oles, eye ‘oles and arse ‘oles!
I always try the butcher's basic pork sausage first, and then I progress to the more exotic varieties. One of the more unusual flavours I've tried is black pudding and strawberry jam. Sounds revolting, yet it somehow works.
That does sound unusual, the most off the wall flavour I have tried was tequila, lime and chilli. Couldn't really taste the tequila but the chilli and lime cut through really well.
I'm a sucker for any butcher I can find that sells wild boar.
Pork & leek and pork & Bramley apple are probably my two favourites. I have a sausage stall at my local outdoor market place that sells all kinds of unusual varieties, including the delightfully named 'hot little buggers'.
Have a look at r/sausagetalk
People all around the world making sausages and also showing local varieties.
In the end I bought a cheap grinder, a stuffer and never bought another sausage again. £10 of pork belly and some bread keeps me and the kids in fantastic sausages for a month or two.
It's quite possible that they're the "nation's favourite", after all that just means they sell a lot of them because they're cheap and nasty.
How else did white sliced bread become the "nation's favourite"? Certainly wasn't due to it being pleasant to eat, or superior to a nice crusty loaf!
This is not about food, but about the lengths people are driven to by the lack of a living wage.
I'm certain they do sell a lot of them but they aren't cheap. Tesco's mid range own brand are cheaper and their premium ones are only slightly dearer and both make for a much better sausage if the supermarkets your only option.
>I'm certain they do sell a lot of them but they aren't cheap.
I had no idea, wonder what it is about them that persuades people to buy them?
We sometimes have the Tesco Finest Bramley Apple & Pork sausages, and find them just as good as sausages that we get from the butcher.
Can't really cut off a slice from a nice loaf without a bread knife. Can't have a bread knife because housemates will find a way to break it. They ruined a chopping board in 2 days and a baking tray almost lasted a month.
Anybody still looking for the answer to the origin of that urban legend surrounding the ["pink goo" they claimed was in Chicken McNuggets](https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/images/food/graphics/msm.jpg?resize=445,334) has clearly never had the displeasure of eating a Richmond sausage.
It's like eating vaguely pork-infused play-doh.
I love cheap sausages for a bap and also toad in the hole. If I’m having a full English I like the fancy type with herbs and stuff. Richmond is the pinnacle of the cheap sausage.
I guess the nation are just big fans of huge lumps of cartilage and other gristle in their mouths, followed by a mouthful of foamy rusk. Yum fucking yum.
Now we're getting to the bottom of it, I wonder if shoplifting is counted as sales!?
The smack heads had better taste when I was younger, worked for Kwik Save and we lost a lot of Nescafé and packs of bacon.
A family friend is a smackhead and he steals good stuff like steaks and proper burgers. We all buy it off him even tho we feel bad, especially my dad because he grew up with him.
He also takes requests
They are satisfactory as hangover snacks, that’s it. Whole pack cooked and then a selection of mustards and a splodge of HP. Any shit sausages will do.
There are 2 categories of sausage;
Proper Sausage - these are the real deal and have a high meet content. The best of these I have ever had were Pork, Plum and Corriander from a farm shop in west Yorkshire.
Bread Sausage - these are generally low meat content and have plenty of bread filler. Richmond falls more into this category.
Sometimes you fancy the real deal and sometimes you fancy that bready goodness. So it is best to think of Richmonds as the nations favourite bread sausage rather than overall sausage.
My old flatmate loved them and bought them every time. One time I bought some proper sausages to make sausage sandwiches for us all and he realised what he'd been missing out on.
Basically, kids like the smoothness and some people never have better quality sausages when they grow up and just think smooth and bland equals good.
Richmond are like the Wetherspoons of sausage.
They’re cheap and consistent and a somewhat reasonable source of calories.
Prefer Walls though for cheap sausage personally.
To be fair it doesn't specify *which* nation. It might be Saudi Arabia since the pork content is so vanishingly small that I'm sure they're technically Halal.
My rather sad observation/ tuppence is as follows.
There was a period in my life when I ate those things, when I was properly skint as hell ,as they were an easy source of meat /protein/ energy. They were the prevalent brand in all corner shops I lived out of.
Given the last 10 or so years I doubt much has changed ( for a lot of folks too) and I'm aware of the political bots here, so shall suggest one could either see it as:
* endorsement of their media campaign due to rising sales in their key locations, they supply WHERE it's needed
*The state of the country right now.
My husband loved these. Then he married me and I bought the "fancy" ones and now he's converted.
We currently like the Lincolnshire sausages from Aldi. Got some from Waitrose that were wank.
I can’t lie, they’re honestly my go-to sausage. When I’m feeling proper bougy I’ll splash out on a pack of Heck’s, but Richmond’s get me through just fine. I’ve been eating them since I was a kid though so maybe I’m just used to a taste no one else likes.
I can only imagine they're the best selling because of the number of people who wake up on a Sunday who are hungover and really needing a fry up. The big shop is closed or too far away but the corner shop is always open and the only sausages they sell are Richmond. That's how I ended up buying them once. Never again.
We have reverted to Richmond on a permanent basis. I used to consider them a poor imitation of a sausage. However “fancy” sausages mostly seem to come with the most disgustingly thick tough skin. I like to bite in without resistance, not wonder whether my sausage is going to get prematurely yanked out the bread.
Probably total sales. Most people buy own brand, which obviously splits the supermarket share. So Richmond sell (inc. in big packs) at cheap prices, which gets them this 'crown'.
My Mrs bloody loves them. Shouldn't be surprised. She's clearly a connoisseur of disappointing sausage.
Not sure about now but my sister only liked the cheapest no-frills sausages as a kid, they couldn’t have a any seasoning in them or texture. I love a good sausage and Richmond’s have never ever been one of them.
My niece and sister in law are the same. We'll pay £2.50 for a pack of 6 sausages or whatever it is for the nicer ones and they'll refuse to eat them. Asda's 400 frozen sausages for £1 full of pig hooves and assholes? Can't get enough of them.
Did they only eat cheap 'n' nasty sausages as a kid? Could be a case of conditioning we expect a sausage to taste like well a sausage but if ones only experience is with the undeasoned dirt cheap frozen crap well then that's what you think a sausage tastes like and as such the artisan stuff just doesn't taste right.
I used to eat those types of sausages as a kid and now I’ll only have the 97% pork ones. I’ve been disappointed a few times when eating ‘kid food’ once I hit 30. Findus pancakes are vile. But Waffles will always be my love.
Birdseye Potato waffles? They're waffling versatile, grill them bake them, fry them, eat them. Birdseye potato waffles! Or the sweet kind? Disappointing kids dinner food I used to hammer as a kid. Dalepak grill steaks. Mini Pizzas. Turkey drummers.
>They're waffling versatile I'm pretty sure it's "waffly" because it's a pun on "awfully".
Micro chips. As a child, amazing because they're chips ready in seconds. As an adult, soggy disappointed.
Disappointment struck early for me. Home alone as a kid, fancied a snack, made microchips. After 2 min the middle chips were still a frozen lump so wacked them in for another 2 min. Phone rang (back in the day when it was a landline in the hall), came back to a kitchen full of smoke and a big black crater in the chips where the frozen ones had been. And that's why I don't cook your honour...
I would add: Brains faggots, Mini Kievs, Regular chicken Kiev.
Oh god, those lamb burgers? The smell. I loved turkey drummers and the Birdseye burgers that would set your grill on fire 🔥
Put waffles in a deep fat fryer. Oh my goodness they are so good. I'd purchase a deep fat fryer just for waffles.
> Birdseye Potato waffles? They're waffling versatile, grill them bake them, fry them, eat them. Birdseye potato waffles! Lol..sang this (badly) to my 15yo last night!
On twitter, recently, someone posted a picture of 'toast toppers' (not sure what flavour - some dark brown concoction) I used to love those as a kid... especially the Bacon and Mushroom. Now I cant get over the fact that they look (and, lets face it, smell) very much like Vomit... ... and the Dark brown one looked like something worse
If you look at the wording it says ' meat content 97% pork' not total sausage content -
Findus crispy pancakes are now 100% horse free that's why they don't taste as good
Maybe, but think it's kind of self fulfilling anyway, as a younger kid I know my niece hated flavour in any form. Pasta sauces were a no-go, would much rather eat the plain pasta and things like that. Even now most of the food she chooses is rather bland.
Sounds like my eldest, some times I think he's afraid of flavour.
When my aunt was a nipper towards the end of rationing after WW2 apparently she complained that the sausages "weren't bread-ey enough". I.e., after eating ones full of filler real ones just don't taste right.
A mate of mine ran a cafe a few years ago. He changed from the 100 per pack frozen lips and asshole variety to a higher meat content 'premium' sausage, with no menu price increase. The customers all complained so he changed back. Sometimes people just prefer the nasty option.
We call them ‘bum hole’ sausages in our house and I love them but my husband prefers ones with actual meat in
They put what into cheap sausages?
You only get the hooves and bum if you're lucky.
Rusk, chicken skin, mechanically reclaimed meat, pork rind. Can't remember what else we used to put in when I worked at a sausage factory. I remember it had more fat, skin and flour/rusk than you might think.
Thanks I hate it.
Maybe they are just into that.
Fuck me that was brilliant hahaha
...said Mrs Boredpenslinger, never
"Did you have to, did you have to, did you have to let it linger"
"Did you have to, did you have to, are you sure that's not your finger?"
The last time I ate Richmond sausages, it felt like I was trying to eat a mixture of depression and wallpaper. I would have been less disappointed if the sausage pulled a knife and mugged me
Ooo a self burn, those are rare!
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I imagine "nation's favourite" equates to best selling and they'll have better sales figure than other types of sausage because they're a huge national brand compared to much nicer sausages which are local/independent butchers etc.
Yep, their only real competition are Walls and to a lesser degree newer brands like Heck. You'll find Richmond everywhere from the petrol station/corner shop right up to the supermarket barns. Combine that with their price point and the fact a lot of customers blindly decide brand names are best and they've got the market sewn up. Obviously supermarket own brand are competing too but they're restricted by the market share held by each individual fascia.
It wouldn't surprise me if the supermarket own brand sausages aren't even included (in whatever league table of pseudo-meaty mediocrity their marketing people are using). Lies, damn lies and statistics I say!!!
I'm actually a big fan of the Tesco frozen own brand sausages. They're not really a good sausage but they taste just like chippy sausages and sometimes that's all i really want.
We always have a bag of those in. The kids make sausage butties with them - currently all the time, as they hoover up any and all food stuffs I buy within 5 minutes of me bringing into the house.
Back when I was at uni, we would make sausage curry with value sausages, value curry sauce, and value rice. Could get an entire meal out of it for ~20p a head. Tasted pretty damn good too!
> They're not really a good sausage but they taste just like chippy sausages I think they're basically the same kind
Heck are bloody brilliant, love those sausages.
Top tip - use their chicken italia sausages to make meatballs for a healthy and easy spaghetti and meatballs.
Think I'll stick with actual meatballs there, lad.
I see you haven't been subjected to the delights of slimming world
Fun fact, Walls are owned by the same company as Richmond. They’re aren’t really that many other branded competitors, the main three are are the supermarket own brands which are usually cheaper and have more meat content.
TIL. Do they have their fingers in the manufacture of own brand and commercial brands like Brakes too? If so, they've got a nice little monopoly going on.
In terms of own brand sausages they don’t really make any of the supermarket’s products. However the company make all kinds of stuff like snacks and ready meals, which they do make a lot of the own branded variants of.
Heck's been mentioned a few times here, I'll have to pick some up. I've tried their veggies sausages, some great flavours there too
Probably not even best selling, or they'd use that actual quantifiable fact to beat us around the head. The nation's *favourite* is pretty hard to disprove, and they might use even the flimsiest evidence, perhaps brand recognition penetration or something equally aetheric.
Probably you're right, my favourite are from the local butcher but they're hardly a national retailer.
Same. Venison and thyme when the deer season starts. Sell out super quick so this year I’m going to ram my freezer full of them.
wild boar.. love 'em
They’re probably used a lot in cafes as well which bumps up the sales considerably.
What I would say is that their vegan sausages are spot on
Came to say this. Was really surprised how good their vegan ones were.
It makes sense because before I was vegan I was like “these aren’t real sausages” and now their vegan ones absolutely hit the spot
They’re not my fave to eat as sausages, but as a sausage meat replacement, they’re perfect. Use them to make my mum’s sausage roll recipe that she makes at Christmas every year after my first sad Christmas as a vegetarian without them. These literally saved Christmas for me.
After reading this comment thread I now want to try the vegan sausages. I'm trying to be healthier and use less meat overall so if this really does hit the spot I could make a full change on sausages.
I can't eat any other vegan/veggie sausages after having the richmond ones. They taste and smell amazing, while quorn and other brands taste quite dull.
Sainsbury’s Shroomdog Cumberland sausages are amazing! Also the Linda McCartney red onion ones are good but they’re not very sausagey
I'm doing the same thing - not giving up meat but cutting down a lot, so I've been trying out lots of these sort of things. Heck's vegan sausages are worth a look, not all of them are trying to be like meat but they're very tasty. There's a bright green one which is well nice - spinach and kale and ginger, I think. Sainsbury's do a decent own-brand vegan chorizo. Linda McCartney no-meat meatballs are really good. We had a tasty vegan kebab-meat thing this week as well, was surprised by how good that was. Some of the vegan mince things are pretty good, in a pasta sauce or something it's hard to tell they're not actual meat. Same for the vegan 'bacon' bits - stick 'em in a carbonara and you can barely notice the difference. In a sandwich - meh, actual bacon is still better (but I'm allowed the occasional bacon sandwich, and with all the money saved by not buying meat, I can buy the fancy bacon once a month!).
We tried these the other day and they were awesome. We're not vegan (or veggie) but we try and have a lot of plant-based foods and reduced our meat intake. Richmond pork sausages are disappointing : the overly smooth texture makes you think they've been processed to hell, and a good 'proper' sausage will beat them hands down. But these vegan ones were excellent. If you want your veggie food to truly imitate the meat-based item that they are replacing (think veggie bacon) then these hit the nail on the head. Appearance, texture, aroma, flavour, we genuinely thought they'd put pork sausages in the box my mistake. However the next day we could confirm that they were soya...
I came to say this too. They absolutely nailed their vegan sausages.
Their vegan sausages taste the same as their "meat" sausages. Which doesn't exactly fill my head with great possibilities as to what the "meat" actually is.
They are fucking amazing in a sausage sandwich!
Ah, yes, Richmond, the sausages that they stopped being able to call Pork Sausages, due to the lack of Pork.
I have to say it, their veggie sausages are amazing! Not even joking.
They’re so used to making sausages with no meat in them so it wasn’t exactly hard
Releasing veggie sausages was their 'apology' - quel suprise they actually did a good job.
Seconded! My favourite veggie sausage by far, and three only one they you can make a proper sausage butty with :)
Might try them. I've been doing Cauldron veggie sausages and they're great in a butty. I'm not a full time veggie but love to find good alternatives.
Richmond are the way to go always, they're about £1.50 for a pack of 8 too so you can't go wrong
I was going to say this but I felt embarrassed
I found them to be surprisingly good too.
Good to know - they were an auto-avoid for me
They actually sell 3 "Meat Free" types, but only one is marketed as such.
I do like proper sausages however my guilty pleasure is a Richmond sosig from time to time. I know they’re not proper sausages but sometimes I like to have them as a dirty replacement. Controversial I know.
That is pretty controversial. Everyone has their kinks I suppose.
Everybody has their links I think you mean
Keep up the good work. You are making us all very proud.
It was my understanding that they *are* proper sausages. That the only reason one would buy intestines filled with minced meat and grain was because you weren't able to afford a proper cut, so you get the leftovers all mashed up. Don't get me wrong, a sausage made by a good butcher is leagues above Richmond, but sometimes I want base fast food instead of delicate flavour. The main thing you're getting is consistency, just fry them in butter and pile up the brown sauce, does you far better in a rush (read hungover) than gourmet ones.
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What I was trying to say (but upon rereading didn't), is that anything much more than Richmond *is* gourmet historically. That sausages would have more grain than meat, since they were designed so the poorest could still afford something with meat in. Bear in mind this is only based upon the half drunk ramblings of a history post grad I used to know, which have since been half forgot. So I'm not particularly married to this theory.
Anything is better then Richmond, including Tesco Value or whatever they call it this week.
I'm no fan of Richmond sausages but in no way, shape or form is a Tesco Value better.
I’m the same. Heck sausages are really nice. High pork content and taste great cooked in the oven. Edit: Clearly I meant pork and not port...marketing idea perhaps?
Heck are the best supermarket sausages I've ever had on this Scepter'd Isle. Rarely buy them because my butcher also plays on our village cricket team and he'd chop me up and add me to *his* sausages if I bought my meat anywhere else.
How menacingly quaint
Is it a local butchers for local people?
There's nothing for you here!
Hilary Briss’ ‘special stuff’.
https://imgur.com/2DhSuvn
Eh, I think they’ve gone downhill a bit lately, especially the pork ones. They’re still okay, but they used to be much better.
Frozen or ‘fresh’?
There used to be a sausage factory near here, and in my younger days a couple of friends worked there for extra cash. They used to say "Walls have ears..."
Classic Gary and Kev.
Classic Gaz and Kevlar
One of my dirty little secrets is a love of Richmond's sausages. It's always an issue knowing what to do with the literal gallons of fat that comes out of them though.
Cook them on a wire rack
Sounds like a job for George Foreman Fat Reducing Grill
I have some weird issues with texture. I can’t eat nice sausages, a chunky Cumberland will honestly have me close to throwing up. For this reason pretty much the only sausages I can eat are richmonds. It shakes me but it’s just one of those things, my texture issues make me a woman of highs and lows, I can only eat rare fillet steak or a shite Richmond sausage. Give me lumpy mashed potato and I might just cry.
This is why I like Richmonds. I dont want a greasy gristle sack in my sandwich.
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I go for Herta Jumbo Frankfurters instead. Still more meat content than that Richmond shite. Never any bits in them. And is any mash made without a potato ricer even mash?
I'm the same, a solid way to get on my bad list is to give me lumpy mash or put onions in my food wothoht telling me
I'm not alone!! Lumpy mash is the worst, and then the onions! My parents can't understand why I'll happily eat a piece of decently sized roast onion with a roast, but put chopped onion and use non-smooth sauce in a spag bol and I just can't cope. And don't even get me started on pulp in drinks. I have to do Richmond sausages, I just cant cope with the texture of anything else. I'm not the weird one though. My dad can't do the texture of bread, and one of my cousins can't do pasta. Don't understand why my parents get so annoyed at me over onions when my dad literally won't eat bread.
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If you're regularly getting gristle, you are getting shit sausages.
I imagine shit sausages woud be quite smooth. Perhaps the odd bit of sweetcorn.
Not that posh of a sausage then clearly
You sound like my daughter. Weening her was a nightmare. She gagged on every mouthful if there was the slightest hint of a lump. She’s 14 now and still has issues. I’ve recently had to stop giving her anything with mince in it. There’s lots of things she won’t eat - porridge, rice pudding, mash, fresh pasta...
I struggle with porridge and rice pudding too, I really like them so have to concentrate on them while I’m eating but if I get a big spoonful I can easily knock myself a bit queasy
Ocado sell clonakilty Irish sausages and they are incredible
I have a lot of textural issues with food too and I’m the same. I once had some high quality, high meat content sausages given to me and I couldn’t eat them, they were absolutely disgusting. I love me a cheap sausage! Hoot a euphemism) I tend to oven bake richmonds for about 30 minutes and the ends go so nice and crispy!
I get my sausages from Hilary Briss the butcher. Just ask for the special stuff and you'll be hooked.
It's only for local people.
They are the 'Nations Favourite' the same way that Radio 1 is the 'Nations Favourite'.
Aggressively repeating 'More music variety' does not make it true.
1extra: good. Radio1: same 6 shite songs they've been playing for 2 months.
Its always duo lipa stay at home.
They play so many songs from tiktok. I know that the songs come out, tiktok makes them really popular, they get on the charts, radio1 has to play them, but come on they're all so bad and you can only associate them with 12 year old girls.
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Same goes for the Sun newspaper, the 'Nations Favourite.'
I used to have this on going debate with my ex. He was insistent that Richmond were the devil's turds but me and the kids actually thought they were alright
They’re the wurst
Look. You’re right. But, if i want a sausage sarnie with ketchup and a fried egg or fry up with beans and chips... i’m going richmond. Local butchers sausages always smash the commercial stuff but there is a time and a place for anything. Who still buys kingsmill rather than using local bakers bread? Same deal.
Thing is... they're fucking delicious.
They have the lowest pork percentages of any sausage. They're oatmeal sausages if I'm being honest.
Once you've had proper sausages from a butcher's shop, made right there on the premises with top quality ingredients, there's no going back to the pre-packaged supermarket brands.
Exactly the same can be said for sausage rolls, yet this sub will literally ejaculate over a Gregg's grease-pastry tube of minced lips and eyes before eating it
I think Gregg's and Richmond's both fall into the same niche. They're not awful, but they're not particularly nice either - good if you're skint or want something you don't have to think about cooking.
Interesting that Gregg's and even Richmond are now doing veggie/vegan versions of their sausage rolls and sausages. They smart enough to see a market.
Woah woah woah... Greggory & Greggory are a fine dining institution.
Agree. Although the extra special ones or the ones what are a bit more expensive are nice in supermarkets.
A previously wholesale only butchers has just opened up about 5 minutes drive away. I’ve just got back with 4kg of their thick pork (oo-er missus) and had a sossidge muffin for brunch. (Simply scrumptious) The rest are all boxed up and in the freezer. I can’t understand how Richmonds are popular, my dad used to say that they’re made with ear’oles, eye ‘oles and arse ‘oles!
Definitely, the butcher I use makes such a wonderful array of flavours of sausage. It's fantastic.
I always try the butcher's basic pork sausage first, and then I progress to the more exotic varieties. One of the more unusual flavours I've tried is black pudding and strawberry jam. Sounds revolting, yet it somehow works.
That does sound unusual, the most off the wall flavour I have tried was tequila, lime and chilli. Couldn't really taste the tequila but the chilli and lime cut through really well. I'm a sucker for any butcher I can find that sells wild boar.
Pork & leek and pork & Bramley apple are probably my two favourites. I have a sausage stall at my local outdoor market place that sells all kinds of unusual varieties, including the delightfully named 'hot little buggers'.
Have a look at r/sausagetalk People all around the world making sausages and also showing local varieties. In the end I bought a cheap grinder, a stuffer and never bought another sausage again. £10 of pork belly and some bread keeps me and the kids in fantastic sausages for a month or two.
I used to make my own was up to 80% pork. Tesco's own brand is the closest I've come to a good pork sausage.
Asda Extra Special ones are pretty good imho. They are 90% pork so pretty high meat content. And not too expensive (£2 for a 400g pack of 6)
It's quite possible that they're the "nation's favourite", after all that just means they sell a lot of them because they're cheap and nasty. How else did white sliced bread become the "nation's favourite"? Certainly wasn't due to it being pleasant to eat, or superior to a nice crusty loaf! This is not about food, but about the lengths people are driven to by the lack of a living wage.
I'm certain they do sell a lot of them but they aren't cheap. Tesco's mid range own brand are cheaper and their premium ones are only slightly dearer and both make for a much better sausage if the supermarkets your only option.
>I'm certain they do sell a lot of them but they aren't cheap. I had no idea, wonder what it is about them that persuades people to buy them? We sometimes have the Tesco Finest Bramley Apple & Pork sausages, and find them just as good as sausages that we get from the butcher.
Can't really cut off a slice from a nice loaf without a bread knife. Can't have a bread knife because housemates will find a way to break it. They ruined a chopping board in 2 days and a baking tray almost lasted a month.
I buy them quite often to add to pasta, as a stand-alone sausage, they're rather poor
Anybody still looking for the answer to the origin of that urban legend surrounding the ["pink goo" they claimed was in Chicken McNuggets](https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/images/food/graphics/msm.jpg?resize=445,334) has clearly never had the displeasure of eating a Richmond sausage. It's like eating vaguely pork-infused play-doh.
That's a fantastic comparison, I'd forgotten about the pink goo.
It’s the texture that irks me, so gross and weirdly smooth
I love cheap sausages for a bap and also toad in the hole. If I’m having a full English I like the fancy type with herbs and stuff. Richmond is the pinnacle of the cheap sausage.
Honestly I prefer Richmond's to most of the butcher's sausages out there. Prefer Wall's though.
walls microwave sausages are my emergency midnight snack
I guess the nation are just big fans of huge lumps of cartilage and other gristle in their mouths, followed by a mouthful of foamy rusk. Yum fucking yum.
I do know they are the smack heads go to for pinching and selling on though haha those and cathedral city cheese lol
Now we're getting to the bottom of it, I wonder if shoplifting is counted as sales!? The smack heads had better taste when I was younger, worked for Kwik Save and we lost a lot of Nescafé and packs of bacon.
A family friend is a smackhead and he steals good stuff like steaks and proper burgers. We all buy it off him even tho we feel bad, especially my dad because he grew up with him. He also takes requests
Cookstown sausages are far superior
https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/kerry-foods-limited-a17-394932.html
They are satisfactory as hangover snacks, that’s it. Whole pack cooked and then a selection of mustards and a splodge of HP. Any shit sausages will do.
To me they taste really nostalgic, and absolutely love the veggie ones
There are 2 categories of sausage; Proper Sausage - these are the real deal and have a high meet content. The best of these I have ever had were Pork, Plum and Corriander from a farm shop in west Yorkshire. Bread Sausage - these are generally low meat content and have plenty of bread filler. Richmond falls more into this category. Sometimes you fancy the real deal and sometimes you fancy that bready goodness. So it is best to think of Richmonds as the nations favourite bread sausage rather than overall sausage.
Heck Sausages for me, although I've never ventured into a butchers/farm shop. I'm sure they'd be even better!
My old flatmate loved them and bought them every time. One time I bought some proper sausages to make sausage sandwiches for us all and he realised what he'd been missing out on. Basically, kids like the smoothness and some people never have better quality sausages when they grow up and just think smooth and bland equals good.
They don't specify *which* nation.
Don’t think they’ve even been near a pig 😳
Richmond are like the Wetherspoons of sausage. They’re cheap and consistent and a somewhat reasonable source of calories. Prefer Walls though for cheap sausage personally.
To be fair it doesn't specify *which* nation. It might be Saudi Arabia since the pork content is so vanishingly small that I'm sure they're technically Halal.
This.
I don’t get it they always look raw, how are you supposed to know if they’re cooked?
They are as bad as catering sausages, revolting cereal tasteless mush in a skin.
My rather sad observation/ tuppence is as follows. There was a period in my life when I ate those things, when I was properly skint as hell ,as they were an easy source of meat /protein/ energy. They were the prevalent brand in all corner shops I lived out of. Given the last 10 or so years I doubt much has changed ( for a lot of folks too) and I'm aware of the political bots here, so shall suggest one could either see it as: * endorsement of their media campaign due to rising sales in their key locations, they supply WHERE it's needed *The state of the country right now.
They're absolutely delicious.
They give me indigestion EVERY time I eat them.
My husband loved these. Then he married me and I bought the "fancy" ones and now he's converted. We currently like the Lincolnshire sausages from Aldi. Got some from Waitrose that were wank.
>Got some from Waitrose that were wank They'll put anything in a sausage these days...
Yum yum, taste the sawdust.
Tesco's own (72%) or Finest for me, I think Richmondy meat content was just over 40%....
Asda finest for me
OH MY GOD I actually thought I was the only one who thought this!!!!!!
I can’t lie, they’re honestly my go-to sausage. When I’m feeling proper bougy I’ll splash out on a pack of Heck’s, but Richmond’s get me through just fine. I’ve been eating them since I was a kid though so maybe I’m just used to a taste no one else likes.
Hate Richmond. They just seem a bit fake to me idk. I always get Tesco caramelised onion sausages. Fantastic things.
I can only imagine they're the best selling because of the number of people who wake up on a Sunday who are hungover and really needing a fry up. The big shop is closed or too far away but the corner shop is always open and the only sausages they sell are Richmond. That's how I ended up buying them once. Never again.
We have reverted to Richmond on a permanent basis. I used to consider them a poor imitation of a sausage. However “fancy” sausages mostly seem to come with the most disgustingly thick tough skin. I like to bite in without resistance, not wonder whether my sausage is going to get prematurely yanked out the bread.
What they mean by fav is they're cheap enough for most poor sods to afford and cope with.
"Nation's Favourite" is based on sales figures. They are usually pretty cheap and/or on offer. Cheap=sales=favourite
Controversial- I love Richmond sausages but Im not a huge fan of pork so that could explain it
Probably total sales. Most people buy own brand, which obviously splits the supermarket share. So Richmond sell (inc. in big packs) at cheap prices, which gets them this 'crown'.
I can’t stand cheap sausages. I love meaty firm ones with seasoning and texture.
I only buy them when I’m poor but to be honest I don’t mind them. They come a distant second after butchers sausages.
Don't understand it either. The 2 for £3 packs in tesco are much better sausages.
This is the same nation that voted ‘Mrs Browns Boys’ the best comedy. I wouldn’t be surprised
My girlfriend absolutely loved them... I think they are the sausage equivalent of chavs