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Sunday, 4 June 2017

Happy Monday !



Hope you had a great weekend...

In today's issue.

Haiku's by Marjorie Lacy
International Sausage Roll Day
Question Impossible
Sausage Facts
Finish with a Song



Today's Guest Writer Marjorie Lacy has written a couple of  lovely
Haiku's, here they are :-

A bright morning sun
Reflecting on the pretty
Yellow dandelions.

The rainbow bridge
Between heaven and earth
It’s colours inspire.



International Sausage Roll Day...


Oh what a day to be alive, who doesn't just love a sausage roll !!??
For my American chums, the sausage roll is exactly what it sounds like it is !

A lovely meaty sausage wrapped delicious pastry. It's probably our real 
national dish.

So today, get yourself down to your local bakery and order a pack of 5, because 1 is
never enough. Enjoy by having 4 and emailing me 1 !!!




Question Impossible



Here's a question....it's hard, in fact, it's 
nearly impossible.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it is, to answer this -

How big was the worlds longest sausage roll ?

Answer below....

Sausage Facts :

The word sausage derives from the Latin salsisium, meaning something that has been salted

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first specific reference in English came in a fifteenth century vocabulary ‘Salcicia’, a ‘sawsage’

Sausages were nicknamed bangers during the Second World War.  Their high water content due to the scarcity of other ingredients meant that they were liable to explode when cooked as the water turned to steam

Sausages are even older than ancient Greece or Rome- the Sumerians made sausages 5,000 years ago

During the early days of the Empire, Romans mixed fresh pork with finely chopped white pine nuts, cumin seed, bay leaves and black pepper

In 320 AD, because of their association with pagan festivals, Roman Emperor Constantinus I and the Catholic Church made sausage eating a sin and their consumption was banned!  This led to sausages going underground until the ban was lifted

It is believed that sausages were brought to Britainby the Romans some time before 400 AD. Since then various English counties have each had their own way of flavouring their local sausage – e.g. Lincolnshire uses fresh sage and Cheshire uses Caraway and Coriander.

By the Middle Ages sausage making had spread to Northern Europe and different varieties began to develop as butchers used ingredients available locally.  In some locations, early sausage makers became so adept at making distinctive sausages that their fame spread across Europe

It was in the reign of Charles I that sausages were divided into links for the first time in Britain.


Question Impossible....

So, how long was the worlds longest sausage roll....??

The record for the longest sausage roll is 111.11 m (364 ft 6.4 in) and was achieved by King Pie in Faerie Glen, South Africa on 25 June 2005.

I'll start at one end, you the other !!

Well that's it....thank you so much for reading.
See you Tuesday.

Finish With a Song

Only one choice really,
This is Oasis and (sausage) Roll with It
released in 1995 !!

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