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No more is your choice of dirty supermarket snack limited to crappy pork pies and questionable scotch eggs.
Ready.
Cooked.
Cumberland.
Effin.
Sausages.
Why it's taken until 2017 to produce this, plus the fact they were stuck in the middle of raw meat products are questions I'll chose to ignore.
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(Apols for the slightly CFH thread title).
Ready cooked sausages have been around for years.
Well sod me, it's Drac everyone to put a dampener on a post.
Do they do caramelised red onion ones?
So sorry for pointing out that you've only just noticed something.
Also in a CFH stylee. ASDA? Delete your account now!! The staff provide sausages on demand at Sandwich towers.
Wow, imagine a world where you could buy a cooked sausage wrapped in pastry. Can we dream of such a thing?
It would never catch on.
Since their price has been rolled back to the same as some halcyon wonder-era of British sausage consumption (terriers running down streets dragging strings of sausages being chased b boys in flat caps with a stick and hoop I imagine), I think they've been around for longer than just 2017
Drac - Moderator
So sorry for pointing out that you've only just noticed something.
Right, low quality rant.
We've plenty of folk that publicly flounce, and I suspect more that just leave without being noticed (because they just read rather than post crap) simply stop visiting here. An assumed amount of them were subscribers, so a loss of revenue to the place.
The reasons that people stop visiting could be varied, but I bet your arse that a huge percentage of people stop visiting this forum because it's not enjoyable any more. Because that's all any of us want; a bit of a chuckle, healthy debate, or just to learn something new.
When the contributions, especially from prolific posters, are just unpleasant topics, putting people down or killing any attempt at jovial threads with their awesome facts...well the place just shrivels up a little more and people that are just after some easily consumed 'fun', just disappear.
So sure, go googling about when cooked sausages were first available in the UK, and I'll be thwarted. The fact is though that no matter what the topic, you seem to try to put the poster down, belittle them or on the rare occasion you're not doing that, promote your own car/job/sodding Northumberland.
Nobody likes being put down, so why do it.
U ok Hun?
You seem sad. Here's a picture of a doggy. He loves sausages.
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I have never seen ready cooked sausages before. Only cocktail sausages (which don't count) or pepperami.
This is great.
Going to side with bearnecessities on this one.
One of the reasons I frequent this place less and less is due to the regulars becoming more and more full of themselves.
Perchy - nice dog. Looks sad from your pointless posting.
I believe the term /flounce is due
Enjoy yourselves, I'm off somewhere more entertaining.
Pepperami isn't cooked, it's cured (like salami, chorizo etc)
What do you do in that minute to make them delicious? Buy nice sausages?
#hugz4bearz
Bear's title game is strong.
😆
This is the only place I'll buy sossidges, however.
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Bear, I like ye bud.
Nobody likes being put down, so why do it.
Sorry Rich, I once mocked your very nice watch in threads gone by. 😀 I'm just miserable and can't help it!
Good point, tomhoward!
killing any attempt at jovial threads with their awesome facts.
About 17% of food-related asphyxiations in the US are caused by hot dogs.
The OP is encouraging the asphyxiation of your children, you should be very worried.
Can the OP confirm that the diameter of these sausages mean that they are asphyxiation risk-free?
Well there you go.
I wasn't putting you down or not intentionally I was pointing out that the item you spotted it is not new. I didn't see that it was meant as humour, sorry if it caused you offence and hope you enjoy your bangers.
Perchy - nice dog. Looks sad from your pointless posting.
Au contraire, every single post I make has a point.
Mostly that point is my own selfish and puerile amusement, but, let's be honest, that's pretty much all I care about.
what you need to reduce asphyxiation risk is a hole through the centre of the obstruction
As ever, the US has your back on this one
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Careful bear, Tom wants to know the diameter of your sausage
You had me at fire grilled to be honest.
[i]You had me at fire grilled to be honest.[/i]
although it's turning into more of a flaming, tbh.
I know there's a load of haterz on here, but these are genuinely decent enough to make a nice sandwich.
Cooked sausages- not new
Cooked Cumberland sausage - new ( as per the writing on the box)
Therefore OP is quite correct in his observations.
Sorted
Anyhow, some questions for the bear
How do they taste?
Are you planning a farewell review posting of whatever unspeakable near-food you might have found on the same shopping trip? Aerosol* Spam or something, maybe
*
This thread is turning into a sausage party.
Just like always.
You want a different perspective Perchy ?sausage party
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I don't think you can call them Cumberland sausage, they should be curly and made in Cumberia from Cumberland pig meat.
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Welcome to 2014 😛
I guess they're marginally better than these
http://www.barelyedible.co.uk/2012/02/walls-microwave-sausages-review/
tl;dr outcome of the review is basically what you'd expect 😉
For a minute or two longer, get yourself proper butcher sausages and use a grill or pan 😛
I'm generally a nice sandwich. I'm not made of sausages though.
The fact is though that no matter what the topic, you seem to try to put the poster down, belittle them or on the rare occasion you're not doing that, promote your own car/job/sodding Northumberland.
Have to agree and it actually pisses me off, but he's a mod so you can't really do owt about it, can you. Besides, I think his intention is to be amusing or come across as intelligent or something - I really shouldn't guess TBH, but unless he gets kicks from getting to folk then he probably isn't aware he's coming across like that.
It kinda makes sense that he responded so badly when he thought I was attempting to belittle him when you think about projection and all that.
[i]The mind, oh the mind...[/i]
Totally agree with the points made on the last page about that mod guy being a fun sponge in the name of technically being correct.
Haven't posted on here for a while because of the general negativity, the only people who seem to have nice things to say about this forum are the ones who have engineered themselves into the clique.
The only thing that makes me come back is the very faint chance that there will be an interesting topic pop up containing posts from a username I've never seen before or haven't seen for a long time. Other than that it's just 99% people who I imagine love the sound of their own voice or have to live with some such person and come on here to vent their frustration.
I will not be looking on here again for a while because the minority is bringing me down, so if you're that whitty chap that's deciding which part of my grammar you should pull me up on by using somebody elses gif in a post that contains the word 'flounce' that's already been used on here 375,458,880 times, save it.
There has never been a community of people who should pay more attention to this saying as STW..
It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.
The fact is though that no matter what the topic, you seem to try to put the poster down, belittle them or on the rare occasion you're not doing that, promote your own car/job/sodding Northumberland.
Well that's not exactly true I do be supporting in threads. Promote my car? Well I speak about the one I have/had when people have asked for a recommendation or experience of the model I had. Promote my job? Oh you mean mention a TV programme I watch or provide an insight into when people have asked the subject. Nothumberland is rubbish.
So there's 3 subjects you've picked I have a knowledge in not really surprising I talk about them then really is it.
Have to agree and it actually pisses me off, but he's a mod so you can't really do owt about it, can you. Besides, I think his intention is to be amusing or come across as intelligent or something - I really shouldn't guess TBH, but unless he gets kicks from getting to folk then he probably isn't aware he's coming across like that.
You can you can report it or do what you've done and point it out. It's usually humour that doesn't always work I guess or is missed in the context. My intention isn't to come across intelligent, I stuggled at school and worked hard as I have dyslexia which held me back at school so I never try to be intelligent as I hate to appear to mock people having been in that scenario myself. Yup no kicks either just sometime badly written or people take it the wrong way or I miss what their post is about. I had no idea the OP was making a joke I genuinely thought he was ecstatic at the news of ready cooked sausage. That's a flaw of my dyslexia at times, I read things to literal and miss what people or saying, even read them as the opposite of the point they are making. See the Apple thread the other day.
Totally agree with the points made on the last page about that mod guy being a fun sponge in the name of technically being correct.
FFS! I missed the joke. 🙄
for the fist time i find my self agreeing with bear, smug and self righteous mods are not needed,please tell us again how massively important you are..
...and they're Walls. Skank-a-Sausage / mingin'meat
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Ay? Where did I say I was?
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dyslexia,really thats your excuse for being such an unpleasant man
It's explanation why my posts sometimes don't come across well. Unpleasant ay? I've never been called that before.
Can you answer the awesome bit yet or do you want to continue with the insults?
Enough now. He's ok, just remember that communicating via text is a) quite hard b) really easy to misinterpret and c) prone to make people think the worst of someone, for some reason. I helped someone write a dissertation on this once*.
So back to sausages - thanks OP, I did not know you could get those. Would be damn handy when bikepacking/ultra-endurancing.
* I say help.. when researching her own dissertation she asked me for my input on another text-based medium and I pontificated at length - ended up about a third of her dissertation was a straight C&P! Still, nice to know I can write Cambridge degree level dissertation material off the top of my head 🙂
Enough now.
Who died and made you King Sausage?
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Where's it on the benefits of backpacking with pre-cooked food?
I refuse to believe than any non-sauced meat product can be 'Delicious in 1 Microwave Minute'.
Even kebab meat mings after pinging.
Anyone prepared to take a sausage for the troops and report back?
Had some of these....
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I think Drac has probably banned me a few times, he's alright though.
Anyone prepared to take a sausage for the troops and report back?
I'll take two if it gets the sausage party back on track.
Hook, line, sinker, rod, reel and copy of Angling Weekly.
TBH from a purely personal perspective, it's a refreshing change to see a Moderator getting a random out-of-context kicking who isn't me. That Drac, he's such a self-serving bastard.
I thought I should take my turn.
We've plenty of folk that publicly flounce, and I suspect more that just leave without being noticed (because they just read rather than post crap) simply stop visiting here. An assumed amount of them were subscribers, so a loss of revenue to the place.
Agreed. Mark's allocation of my "amusing" tag became a sure fire way to ensure that I never again bothered to subscribe or buy the mag, and certain plugins do the job of "P" for free.
Might be an awesomely funny joke, but be snarky to too many of your customers and sooner or later you'll find you don't have as many
Actually, walking back from lunch, I had a think about just how many people I knew via STW IRL. I don't think a single one of them frequents the forum any more, and I only pop up once in a blue moon.
Don't get me wrong, there can be some very helpful people on here, but even over on the bike forum it doesn't seem to take long before the snark comes back out.
Unless the product is from my local butcher, we refer to sausages as 'mystery bags'. Although they are a kinda guilty secret.
On a different, yet thread related note, I thought there was going to be a mutiny for a while back there^^^^^^ 😆
Interesting to see the ' we never harms our own' mentality shine through in times of need 🙄
On a personal level, I found that possibly more interesting than the original subject matter ( sorry Rich) in that I'm clearly not the only one. 😉
I actually think this forum is pretty tame and actually pretty liberal if I'm honest
I also really enjoy being a very small part of it. This is the only forum of any nature I spend any real time on. Yet I'm certainly not part of any in crowd or whatever.
That said I'm a "vet" of the OCUK forums. If you did your time on there everything else is a gravy train. 😀
First rule of forums is never read too much into other people's posts or comments. Simple fact is that social etiquette hasn't quite kept up with the internet age. More importantly there are a lot of people out there having a tough time for one reason or another and sometimes a forum is just a vent for them.
Also, much to the amusement of my friends,I am a great advocate of "smilies". It's so, so easy to offend totally unintentionally via a forum/text as it's hard to get irony/ gentle sarcasm across via such means.
Childish as it may seem to some,a smiley face or a "wink" can make a seemingly explosive comment reveal itself to be entirely benign in intention.
Oh,I also have a love for genuine, well meaning satire which helps on here. 😉
Forums tend to invite you to see your own reflection. To a degree you see what you want to see. This place actually cheers me up in my day to day life. Sure there can be some negativity on here just like there is in real life,I just concentrate on the vast amount of good stuff on here instead.
Lastly, look around you guys. The world's a mess,I find it hard to get worked up about a comment on a bike forum these days! 😀
Anyway, off to kip now. Got to hug some trees later today. 😀
Enjoy your eggss, beans and bangers in the morning!
I too was unaware that pre-cooked sausages (cocktail sausages notwithstanding) were available.... what a time to be alive.
STW still feels like a community where somewhat intelligent, somewhat liberal and somewhat sensible* people can communicate with each other, with a fair bit of good-natured, mutual p*ss-taking.
*This is not irony - honestly
However, like the world around it, the "tone" of this forum seems to have changed a bit in the last year, in my opinion. Again, in my opinion, a few people (generously described by some as "trolls") have had a disproportionately negative impact on the tone and quality of forum. I don't advocate banning them..... but I would like a way of stopping them from turning STW into something that looks like the youtube comments section. Pinkbike's forum hides comments with a significant number of downvotes - mebbe that'd work?
Even kebab meat mings after pinging.
I'm calling BS on that - who in the wide wide world of sport has ever allowed kebab meat to go cold?
I can't believe that a lighthearted thread about the availability of precooked sausages has derailed this much. I'm all for a thread derailment, but this is quite different.
This place is great when compared to a lot of other forums. I genuinely don't see any subculture of bullying or think that there is any particular clique. It seems like a great community most of the time. Just look at the recent Gnusmas thread.
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This place is great when compared to a lot of other forums. I genuinely don't see any subculture of bullying or think that there is any particular clique. It seems like a great community most of the time. Just look at the recent Gnusmas thread.
I completely agree - although it does seem that more threads turn a bit nasty than they used to
actually think this forum is pretty tame and actually pretty liberal if I'm honest
Death by a thousand cuts, tho. If your constantly getting picked up on your spelling/grammer etc or other consistent negative retorts then it can be just as bad as some of the more rambunctious forums.
And to think that I read the title as 'embargoed sausages'...
I'm curious about this thread.
Have some people clicked on the thread thinking 'yeah I like sausages, and don't mind reading about them but what I'm really hoping for is a lynch mob to have a go at the mods, as I [s]havent got the stones[/s] don't want to be the only one doing it. Fingers crossed!'
*click*
'Jackpot!'
I just came for the sausages, and all this angry talk is spoiling my sausage based fun.
And to think that I read the title as 'embargoed sausages'...
Now that is something to get angry about!
a Moderator getting a random out-of-context kicking who isn't me
In the years I've been here that's never happened to you. If you wanna read a thread with a kicking taking place then... well, I reckon you can guess what I'd link to.
That's a flaw of my dyslexia at times, I read things to literal and miss what people or saying, even read them as the opposite of the point they are making.
If you're aware of your ability to misconstrue then why respond in a negative fashion. Why not just question what the motive is/was before going in with guns blazing?
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Nice. We have some teams forming.
Looks like the Great Sausage War is a go!
Three pages and we still haven't asked the most-important question.
Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all?
And on the other subject at hand, it's a bit like when my wife is cooking sausages - there's no smoke without fire.
If that ad is your handiwork, Binners, then you missed out the bottle.
Still time to edit, tho...
Edit : Or perhaps just replace it with a sauce of your choice...!
[i] Pinkbike's forum hides comments with a significant number of downvotes[/i]
which seems almost *designed* to allow cliques to take over and stifle dissenting voices?
Anyway, as JFK famously said: "Ich bin ein Frankfurter"
I've just had a sausage roll for breakfast
Who's side am I on then?
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Also: I need to take issue with the casual malignment of the cocktail sausage. I suggest you try a solitary contemplative moment with a bowl full of them, dipping them in brown sauce
I'm gonna have a sausage butty at 11sies. With ketchup.
Alternative version of this thread :
Post 1 - Oh wow, pre-cooked sausages. Ossum.
Post 2 - They've been around for ages.
Post 3 - Oh, really?
Post 4 - Yeah.
The End.
OP - You're really happy you've discovered pre-cooked sausages, why has that changed because someone points out that they've been around for ages? You've still got pre-cooked sausages (and at a rollback price), surely that's the most important part.
Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all?
A proper sausage deserves proper mustard. Anything else is just wrong.
What people choose to do with the abominations in the OP is of no concern. They have already lost all their human rights.