You are cordially invited to join the S.S.S.P.C.S The Sizzerling Sausage Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sausages This small organization was started in May/June in 1973, on a Pipe Band bus that was at that time travelling to France, to take part in a music festival as a guest at that time of City of Newcastle Pipes & Drums under, Pipe Major Ian Nelson, in response to the shocking state of the sausages in the motorway services at this time. The poor state of these unfortunate sausages, being left for hours under the hot bright lights of the serving counters, for what was hours at a time draining the life force from these sausages , was too much for myself to stomach, I can only remember the pain and humiliation I felt of behalf of the unloved and tortured Pork and Beef sausages at this time, having hunger pangs and buying a sausage sandwich, trying to bite through the hard dry skin of the sausage in-between the dry lifeless outer casing they called a roll???, where no natural juices had been left, due to the horrific way these poor sausages had been treated by uncaring untrained motorway service personnel. I have to admit at this time in my life I was not aware of the huge array of sausages available across the world, myself only knowing of Pork, Beef or the anomaly of the HOT DOG I ate in the USA in 1970, not forgetting the invaluable square sausage from Scotland, this being the first sausage I had came across that did not have the outer casing of intestine, that goes that crispy brown colour, (more about our Scottish sausage Brethren later) So this encounter was the catalyst to start the S.S.S.P.C.S to rid the country of the shocking way we treated our ever loved meat products we called sausage, at first they was a very small number of members of this cause, if my memory serve me well we had about 15 from that trip, with a joining fee of 3 pence (and the daft Buggers paid it) for administration fees at the Bar. The rules of this society were simple, questions were asked and answered i.e. (1) Do you like Pork or Beef sausage??? (2) How do you prepare the sausage for cooking, Prick with a Fork or stab with a Knife or neither (3) Do you Grill or Fry or Oven Any answer given was right: As all organizations membership went from the giddy heights of the initial 15 members, down to 1 by the end of 1973, this rose up to 24 in 1975, due to the uproar to the Make Square Sausage Round Campaign, started by the Bread companies in the UK, attempting to make our Scottish Sausage Brethren change the shape of their square sausage, to round so it sat better on a roll, when we all know it sits nicely on a good Scottish morning roll as a beautiful platform for the fried egg and bacon etc. if required. Now I am older and some would say not much wiser and still insane, I am resurrecting the S.S.S.P.C.S as we now have the internet to send this message out to as many as we can muster through friends and colleagues across the world we will not deter from letting the whole world know, we are all against the cruelty to sausages.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:41:04 +0000
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