Sausages in batter from the chippy

[osprey]

Why is it that they are always very pink when thay come out? Is it because they hardly contain any real meat or is it because they don't get the chance to cook properly? Also, why isn't it possible to semi-cook them and then coat them in batter and fry them?

[sod_the_m25]

Not much help to you, but I would never buy sausages from a chippie. Notwithstanding the huge fat content, pink says undercooked.

[markgem]

I think they use lots of offel and cheap parts of pig mushed together much like the hot dogs they sell in my seaside towm yuck

[SazzyC0]

If you just dip them in curry sauce you will never know the difference anyway, yum.

[4getmenot]

the sausages at my local arent. Savaloys are

[snagged]

Don't get me started on spam fritters...

[joggerjayne]

The layer of batter means that they are shielded from direct heat, so the mean doesn't brown.

It happens if you put meat or mince into a stew without browning it or sealing it first.

[joggerjayne]

Oooh ... the "mean" doesn't brown Jayne ???

Try "meat".

[LoftyLottie]

I can't understand why anybody would want to eat them. They are full of muck.

[McNoodle]

Has no-one heard of food colourings? The pink colour is added at point of manufacture as it is thought to be more appealing and detracts your attention from the often very low meat content. Cooked, undyed sausage meat should be a sort of grey colour - hence the above 'reasoning'...

[McNoodle]

...Think Sayers pink sausage rolls - yuk - which are openly declared to contain less than 8% 'meat'. Disgusting.

[B00]

I can't understand why anybody would want to eat them. They are full of muck.

'Cause they taste bootiful in the aforemtioned curry sauce ;-)

[carrust]

Having worked on a re-furb job in a kebab/sausage factory some years ago, I saw what went into them. I haven't touched either of them since....snout or lung in your sausage madam?

[smudge]

I couldn't eat them! The thought of what goes in them &/or any suasages makes me gag!

But then again, I remember my Mum & sister's delish spam fritters! ;o}

[LoftyLottie]

BOO, I just love curry, but chip shop curry sauce, more Muck ;o)

They would have to pay me a lot of money to eat muck in batter dipped in muck!!!!

[smudge]

Tried for 5 minutes to post that Ed!

[LoftyLottie]

I love proper sausages though Smudge made by our local butcher - nearly all meat (and I don't mind much about the fat or bits of pieces of pig as long as I know where the pig comes from). It's all the additional things that go in cheap sausages that makes me cringe!!!

[smudge]

*sausages!

[smudge]

I know, my husband says the same Lofty.

It's because some years ago, I knew someone who worked in a supermarket & she told me that when on the butcher's counter, they used to alternate the pork, lamb & beef chops, but the ones that didn't get sold, were stripped & put in the mincer for sausages &/or minced meat.

To this day, I can't eat sausages & will only eat our own minced meat!

[gelda]

The only sausages I will eat are from M&S, they're 94 % pork and very tasty, more expensive but you don't have sausages every day, I heard that Tesco put red dye in their Value sausages and burgers to mask the fat content, I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole!!