Gun Culture

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Cumberland Sausage

I like a good Cumberland sausage.  I like the size of the thing, the coarse texture and that spicy kick.  Plus of course the beast originated in mine home area.
I’m unsurprised to hear that some makers of this particular style of sausage are trying to get the EU to declare it a regional protected food, yet dissappointed.  Anything to do with the EU is a non-starter for me in any case but I’m generally opposed to this kind of regional protectionism.  Cumberland sausage refers to a style of sausage not just a location.  There is nothing special about the region such that the sausage can only be made here.  It is true to say that the further you stray from the region the more likely you are to encounter a Cumberland sausage not worthy of the name.  It is also true that there are a goodly number of producers here who make insipid disgusting concoction that I wouldn’t give to my dog.  I need go no further than my home town to find a purveyor of such a foul excuse for a sausage.  Laughably the vendor styles himself ‘Lakeland Luscious Sausage’.  Should you encounter any of his products I urge you to decline, these are the most disgusting fucking sausages I have ever had the misfortune to try.  Fatty, gristly and completely without taste.  A shame, the idea of a hot sausage sandwich of a lunch time is appealing in the winter time but I shall not be darkening his door ever again.
It doesn’t help the case that the area of Cumberland was consigned to the bins by fatty Heath some time ago, the folks bringing the proposal are suggesting that being in Cumbria is geographical area which will define a geniune Cumberland sausage maker.  What a load of bollocks.