Sausage meat

kneemos

Anyone know the actual ingridients of sausage meat.Heard the rumours about eyeballs and the like. true or not.

Chucken

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage#Ingredients

kneemos

Anyone with first hand experience of what goes into sausages especially the pink paste one's you get in the supermarket.?

TBoneMan

Any good butcher that makes there own sausages will also have sausage meat. Most traditional irish sausages use belly and shoulder cuts and no ears, eyes or noses make it in nowadays. Meat production is so highly regulated that heads are considered SRM material and dont make it past the cutting room.
i like to make meatloaf and always get my sausage meat from o mahonys in the english market, cork.

Carawaystick

Why would you use offal, when you could use bread, or water to make up bulk/weight

huskerdu

Carawaystick wrote: »

Why would you use offal, when you could use bread, or water to make up bulk/weight

Some sausage manufacturers do, but they have to put the ingredients on the label.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has a guide to the EU regulations on Meat Content Labelling.

http://www.fsai.ie/faq/meat_labelling.html

Here are some quotes

"Q. What does the new meat content labelling legislation specify?

A. Firstly, the legislation restricts the definition of “meat” to the skeletal attached muscles only. Therefore any other parts of the animal for human consumption other than skeletal attached muscles such as heart, liver, kidney, tongue or even fat must now be declared separately in the list of ingredients."

Therefore, if a sausage is described as being 90% pork, that has to be Pork meat with permitted levels of fat and connective tissue, not other parts of the animal.