Lemon sausage shoot out

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I bought some Porky White's Surrey Sausage and some Porkinsonian Oxford Sausage today for a head to head on the BBQ tonight *

Dave

* weather permitting

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How can someone living in Oxford form an objective opinion on this - send them to me immediately!

Phil

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How can someone living in Oxford form an objective opinion on this - send them to me immediately!

Phil

I was born in Surrey

Dave

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Interesting result from the cook off Back later with a write up...

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It was a hands down win for the Oxford Sausage

They both had a nice lemony taste but in the Surrey there was less to back it up. The major taste was in the herbs (too much?) and we couldn't agree what was fighting for supremacy. I thought maybe the lemon was going with sage for the aroma but Jackie was sure there was rosemary in there and too much of it. There was one hell of a white pepper kick too, which is not necessarily a bad thing . I did briefly catch the honey, but Jackie doesn't like honey and didn't mention it at all.

The Oxford was more subtle and better balanced. Don't get me wrong, they were both nice sausages, we just preferred the Oxford one.

As usual I asked my unbiased adjudicator, Tomas, now 14, to give his definitive take on it it.

"The first one was more meatilicious, the second was more flavourlicious, but too much so. I'm sorry Dad, but the second one tasted like a supermarket sausage, whereas the first tasted and looked like your proper homemade ones usually do. "

At this point I realised he thought I'd concocted the mixes myself ...
I'm not sure whether to be flattered or offended

I'll do some more digging into the Lemon one I helped come up with, in discussions with Nafe and then managed to lose the recipe of