More on the super sausage search
My sausage seeking endeavours starting to bear fruit. After having estabilshed that importing bangers from Spain would cost a arm and a leg (c. £3000=00!! eek!), as I had suspected, I headed off down an alternative route.
Today, I popped into a local butchers here in Milan which is a whole five minutes on foot from my house and had a chat with the friendly owner Silvia about the possibility of making the sausages here in Italy. She was quite interested in the idea, although she wanted me to supervise the sausage production process. I’ll do it, but I don’t really know that much about making the things. I am good at eating them though. Anyway, next stop: find a sausage recipe.
The sausage recipe and ingredients have been located. Now I shall have another word with the butchers and see what they say. With a little luck Cumberland sausages may soon be available in Italy…..
Progress on the sausage search front
In my attempts to track down British banger for Alessandro at the 442 pub, I appear to have made some slight progress. The subject sausages have been tracked down.
The foot and mouth thing in the UK means that sourcing sausages from England’s green and currently disease ridden lands is looking less and less likely, as my fellow sausage hunters, Liz and Claire have been finding out. Time for a little lateral thinking. Where else might one be able to find a few sausages? Well, I thought anywhere with British residents who like English style food. At least so I believe.
Indeed, one quick call to a local magazine confirmed that sausages are popular in one well known colony. However, this place is suffering from its own mini-banger famine. The local sausage supplier is just about all out of bangers. So, not much chance of laying our hands on bangers from there then, but, the affable chap who chuckled to hear about my sausage search, told me about an someone who might help. I rang said someone and it sounded as though there might be sausage trafficking potential. I grilled the owner about the availability of the subject sausages and the possibility of getting them all the way to Italy.
Well, the good news is that the bangers are indeed there, although they are not vacuum packed, they could be frozen. And the company would be more than happy to supply the requisite bangers - of the Cumberland variety too, which is just what Alessandro at the 442 is looking for.
And now the, potentially, bad news. The company has never been asked to export sausages before, and so is not up on sausage supply export regulations. My mission, which I have duly accepted, is to find a, reasonably priced, way of getting frozen bangers to Milan in Italy.
The sausage saga squeezes slowly ahead. And further sizzling developments regarding the magnificent sausage search will be reported here on Blog from Italy.
Help please
I’ve played around with a few settings, and moved things around on the right hand side bar, including reducing the number of Google ads. I’ve done this, and some other stuff, because Jan, one of my faithful readers, told me that this blog was taking ages to appear in her browser. On my computer there is a slight lag, still, while the right side bar appears. To cut some of the fat away from the slow bar, I’ve also removed what appears to be the java script ridden Google search and gone back to the standard Wordpress search.
Can someone kindly give me some feedback as to how slowly/quickly this ‘ere blog is loading up? Many thanks in advance. Alex.
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