After having done a little previous research into Lorne sausage I think that the reason that the taste of the meat that you’re eating isn’t quite what you expected is because a proper Lorne sausage should have a small proportion of fatty pork mince included so that the fat cooks out of the product and forms a nicer tasting fond in the pan that is then picked up by the beef. If I might suggest if you try using a lump of lard melted down to cook the remaining pieces of the Lorne sausage in you might find that it changes the taste for you. My research led me to believe that a mixture of beefsteak mince and minced pork shoulder in a proportion of 80% /20% beef/pork gives you a nice taste and texture, which depending upon how much lard you use to cook in should be enough for the tastes to reach a more flavourful result.
It's hard to find a butcher these days. I used to buy a full steak lorne from a butcher in Partick. He made it with onion and it was awesome. Sadly gone now. It's almost impossible to get a bit of mutton or gigot chops. Or steaks with seasoning. And sawdust on the floor. I'm not young!
@@stephenkelly1887 head down to killie, there's a proper butcher on John Finnie street, still had sawdust untill fairly recently, no doubt health and safty bollocks made him stop that.
@@just-gaming213 There are 2 really good butchers in Dumfries. One of them has won all sorts of awards. Their haggis is amazing. They've been on telly. The other one does amazing beef olives, but no mutton. Cooked properly, mutton is more tasty and tender than lamb It is a wee bit more firm, but slow cooked it's amazing
@@andy70d35 Hi Andy. I agree, with one caveat. The best Lorne I've ever eaten was when the Parents lived in France. It was the only thing the Old Man missed so Mum did Her normal, dug out the antique Kenwood and made it Herself!
Not square, but then neither is sliced bread which is where this belongs, between two slices of council issue bread with spreadable butter, not in a roll.
Being Scottish can't beat a bit of Lorne (or square) sausage...a tip though is always go for "steak lorne" much more flavour and less fatty tasting! Aldi do another brand, certainly in scottish stores, McCaulay's and the steak version is made with 69% beef flank steak and it's very tasty! Try that if you can.
Happy St Andrew's Day to all my fellow Scots, wherever you may be in the world right now. And the same to all non-Scots reading this. Hae a pure dead brilliant day.
Hi Gareth, I'm Scottish and I live in Scotland and I've tried square sausage from all sources from freezer shops, supermarkets and local butchers. Generally the ones in plastic bags are rubbish I wouldn't give them to my dog. Supermarket prepacked sausages are better but still rubbish, I've tried Fraser's not great. Butchers are better, my local butcher used to make excellent steak slice sausages but he has retired and the quality has gone down hill. I now make my own it's not hard and they are much better and cheaper. Well done Gareth love watching your videos, keep up the good work.
What happened eh? I remember back in the late seventies and eighties and they were good. I also remember my dad going to the butcher every Saturday and he’d buy the leftover sausage meat,a mix of beef and pork and he used to make patties for us. It’s so sad. Why change and mess with something that ain’t broken 😢
Funny you doing this today. I am trying Lorne sausage from a new company. The company offers many British style foods, and run by some expats from England. They also do bap style rolls, so that is dinner this evening with HP sauce of course. Usually get it from a Scottish butcher in Florida or one in New Jersey. I tried to donate to Movember for a cousin in England but it didn’t go through. Cheers mate on your success.
I'm sure many true Scots will agree the only true Square Sausage is the Local Butcher home made. The taste and texture is 100% better than the Supermarket compressed meat paste type as in this clip
I used to get it brought down to Sunderland by my partners family with black pudding white pudding and fruit pudding along with plain bread ideal for a weekend brekkie for the whole family. If i see it i get it from Iceland now.
Called square slice in Scotland your right butchers square slice a lot better in McGee's crispy roll in butter broon sauce.happy Saint Andrew's Day.🏴.
I quite fancy a square sausage now. Great review and great to see all the videos, sorry i havent been in the comments for a while I've been trying to quit the drink again and finding it hard this time. Your videos are always very much appreciated thank you very much. You have no idea how much you have installed in me to quit the drink through you just being you and everything you do. Thank you and keep up the great work. All the best.
I was born in Govan, but brought up in Bradford! Going home in the school holidays was the highlight of our lives & tasting that first sausages sandwich with hp brown sauce was & still is, heaven! Then there's breakfast in the morning, but that's another tasty story! 🍀✝️🙏✝️🍀 The sandwich is so much better with Scottish bread!! Scots bread is far superior to the bread here in England! 🍀
Many years ago i used to get mine from Littlewoods. It came like a sliced loaf, 14 slices i think. It was never fantastic, but it was so so cheap!! As you say, quite edible.
Lorne Sausage is one of those that you either like or hate. My next door neighbour is from Scotland and finds it hard to this this sausage. He's also not a ' make your own ' type of guy. So I make him up a batch about once a month. As I've said in previous posts. I'm lucky to have access to our large Community Kitchen, with all the gadgets. I buy in the seasoning from eBay. After that I just get a mix of pork and beef, bung it through the mincer, add the seasoning and press it all down into a bread tin to get the shape. Over night in the fridge to firm it up and hey presto you have a Lorne sausage you can slice and freeze. Obviously not everyone has a mincer. But you could use pork sausage meat instead. Although you would need to get the seasoning to mix in. As I've said I'm lucky to have a large catering kitchen at my disposal and plenty of free time to make sausages and Black Pudding etc. I'm not saying I make better. I just really enjoy making sausages for my neighbours, even Haggis 😏😏 and I can make up different flavours you can't find in a shop. My favourite being beef and horseradish sausages. Great on a breakfast plate. One neighbour asked if I could make Gammon and Pineapple sausages? I did and she loves them. Just in case people might think I do it for profit? My neighbours only pay for the ingredients and not a penny more. A great review Gareth 👍👍. I love that you aren't reviewing restaurants that are charging £50 or £60 for a meal. 👏👏.
I've lived in Glasgow all my life and lorne is a sausage we always go to. Put straight in a frying pan, no oil and on the lowest gas heat and just leave it to slow cook. It cooks lovely and soft and tasty. If you want to try a decent lorne then try an online butcher from Scotland and you won't go wrong. Supermarket lorne can be hit and miss.
@Ian-ky6hm so glad you said no oil mate..Don't need it and its a good measure of how good the sausage is..If too much oil comes out its usually too greasy..but I'd still eat it 😀
This is my most favourite food site on TH-cam. No fancy restaurants charging more for one meal than my pension. I'm a Lidl and Aldi shopper. If you want decent quality fresh meat with a low fat content? They are the shops you want. If you check out many of the suppliers names? You will find that a lot of the items are also supplied to the higher priced stores for a lot more. I do go on a bit don't I?
@Nolimitss6 Well let's take a look see. First, Red Bull. The Co-Op get supplied with cans without prices on the can. My local Convience store stocks Red Bull pre priced. The Co-Op averages a minimum of 50p per can above that. They also sell carrot cake and chocolate cake. Which comes in the same packaging as Lidl, other than having Co-Op on the packaging. A check of the producer was the same, but the Co-Op price was £2+ dearer. I won't go into the full list, but I have found that if you check out certain items from say, Lidl or Aldi they will buy their products from the same supplier as a major supermarket, but the retail price will be cheaper. These products cover a lot of items from Black Pudding to fresh fish. Prior to being a pensioner I never really bothered about checking out the supplier. Why should I buy, for example, smoked Haddock from a major retailer for over £4 or £5 when I can buy the same item from the same supplier, fishery, for at least £2 cheaper? OK, you can claim that the major retailer buys in a better quality, but to me? If I can save a few quid from my pension? I will. I drink roughly 4 cans of Red Bull in a day, not healthy I know, but for the sake of walking about 100 mtrs I can save £2+ per day. That's my point.
Genuinely Disheartened 😢💯😳😭 Because I’ve been waiting for them to appear in Aldi nationwide for years,to hear they’re not that pleasant is a gutter . As always,totally thankful to you for taking the time to review these
You would love the black eyed jack which is the Scottish loran sausage with black pudding in the middle. It must be eaten on a soft Scottish morning roll. I think you would be blown away. Would love to see you try this, i guarantee you will not be disappointed 👍. Try first without the brown sauce. I can feel my arteries hardening already 😂
I have watched lots of British food related videos and have always been fascinated by your love of Brown Sauce. In Australia, the two main sauces for sausages and burgers and pies and meat generally are tomato sauce (aka ketchup) and BBQ sauce. I have recently tracked down some brown sauce, specifically HP Brown Sauce. SO far a quick taste out of the bottle, I haven't had it on anything yet. BBQ sauce is brown in colour but there the similarity ends. It is usually sweet, often smoky and overall richer than brown sauce. Next step, brown sauce in context. Let the games begin.
Roll with square and a tattie scone is a taste from the old country the thought of which brings a tear to my eye. I always stock up when I'm over visiting family. Thanks for prompting the reminiscence Gaz!
Beef Connective tissue = Tendons , Ligaments, and Silver skin. It's not bad for people , rich in Amino acids. Its a lump of pick and mix . god know's what they throw in it , maybe the Badger is giving the funny flavour. Daddies sort out everything 😁
I like lorne sausage but its not always easy to get down south. What i did find this week in Aldi were Maple and Bacon Sausages (New}. Quite tasty wih a bit of a smokey flavour, not too herby ore spicy. Went down well for brekkie with all the usual fry up stuff.
I used to live in Glasgow and my local butcher (which is now shut 😭) used to do morning rolls and did square sausage with a black pudding heart! Yummy! In a crispy roll was just magic!
I loved square sausage when I was working on Shetland, I didn't realise it was beef but I knew it was on the red side of the traffic light system from how nice it tastes 😂
Hi Gareth, I love the Lorne sausage from Iceland, It's nice stacked as a burger with chesse and a 1/4 pounder beef burger🤤😋 Good to see you have done well for Movember. Happy St Andrews day to our Celtic brothers in Scotland. As always great video Take care
Add a fried egg, tattie scone in a morning roll. Sauce or butter to taste. Mechanical meat tends to lack flavour compared to proper butcher cuts so one option would be to remix the sausage meat with seasoning and using that. Which makes me think they could be used for filling homemade sausage rolls.
Nice one. Cheers. A fine Scottish Breakfast with Lorne Sausage, Tattie Scones and Black Pudding (Ditch the Hash Browns), is bloody-lovely. A real treat. I think I know what you mean about the meat. Was it an empty, watery taste. A bit like cheap frozen sausages? It is worse than unseasoned food. The cheapest cuts, or scraps of meat. I hate that stuff.
My Uncle owns a butchers in NE Scotland , little town called Forres . Murdoch Bros Butchers . They do a lovely square sausage and is sold throughout Scotland .
At £1.35 for 4 Lorne sausages ( in Scotland, we call them square sausages), a good quality square sausage would cost between £2.50 and £3 for 4, and every butcher has their own recipe.
Thanks Gareth another interesting vid. Ive had the Scottish Lorne sausage in Scotland several times but it was always declared as locally produced and tasted ok. From the second you bit into the sandwich you looked as if you had instant indigestion, not a good look. I'll give it a miss thanks. All the best.👍
Used to have this all the time, came in a bag of around 10 of them, im thinking from Asda or iceland, been quiet a few years. Will keep a look out for these next time im in the Aldis.
Thank you Gareth for your lovely vlog I was always told if it don’t taste right don’t eat it you must look after yourself keep up the good work best wishes Sheila and family
It's not easy to get the good quality Lorne sausage down here, all the mainstream supermarket ones are not that great. Halls used to be decent but haven't been in years and most recently they gone even more downhill. Traditional Lorne Sausage is made with pork mince, beef mince, butcher's rusk and spices and is easy to make yourself so well worth a go. When home in Scotland a couple of month's ago I did get a chance to try some steak Lorne and that was excellent, really tasty and there's a few Scottish butchers who sell online to the rest of the UK so may give them a go sometime.
Always best with butchers sausage here in scotland I sometimes steam four square add some chopped shallots and add gravy at end after poring out water from sausage and serve with mash or homemade potato croquettes also Simon Howe has good range of meats and vegetarian options
I used to love square sausage which many people in the area I live in simply call it "Slice" do you had a piece n slice. What puts me off eating supermarket and butchers slice now is the fact most of what I've seen contains the red food colouring carmines and I know where that comes from. I don't know why they feel the need ro make it looks more red and meaty. It wouldn't bother me if the Lorne looked a bit peely wally. There used to be a supermarket brand called Halls that didn't have that colouring. But you can't find that anymore.
hi Gareth, dont think Ive ever seen you with Bramwell's Brown Sauce from Aldi, I'm a bit like you liking brown sauce on stuff ( usually corned beef or sausage ! ) I much prefer Bramwells to Daddies/HP/Chop and as bonus it's 2/3 of the cost of the brands
Iceland used to do some in a bag… think it was only about £1 or so for about 8-10 slices. Was a bit thinner than that tho. Don’t know if they still do it.
We just call it sausage, as in "can i have a roll on sausage please" We only really differentiate it as square or lorne when explaining it to non natives. 😉 What you guys might refer to as sausages or bangers are in fact "links" as in beef or pork links. That stuff fi the supermarket is really just suitable for making stovies. The gid stuff comes fi the butchers. Top work Gaz.
I live in Devon and 35 years ago went offshore, had never heard of this. Generically it was called square sausage, as others have said supermarket product can be hit or miss. If I could find a local butcher source I would always use that. Offshore I think the make was McKechnie Jess.I thought that was good until Davy aye-aye brought some from a butcher in Glasgow. Btw the connective tissues ie most of the beef is really mechanically reclaimed hooves eyelids and arseholes😄
Lorne sausage is the posh name. Up here it's a square sausage. As with all sausages, and pies, the flavour is down to the spices used and every butcher has their own recipe. It is most commonly consumed as fast food from a burger van and usually in a 'Scotch' morning roll, and you just don't get those south of the border where the bap is preferred. Brown sauce is much requested, though "red sauce" is also available and usually fried onions are offered. Best obtained from a burger van outside an industrial estate. It is often enjoyed with a fried tattie scone and /or a fried egg, a cholesterol time bomb.
It’s edible, yes….but so is Chappie and I wouldn’t eat that either. You’d have been better off with two nice eggs, full of nutrients and no connective give tissue. Good on you for giving it a fair appraisal Gareth. You are a trooper! Have a lovely weekend.😊
The only exception I make on the pre packed supermarket compressed meat paste square or lorne sausage is the Malcolm Allan Onion Lorne which has quite a pleasant taste but still the same paste consistency as the rest
Those beef Lorne sausages looked like they had a bad case of Acne in the frying pan🤢😂. 48% beef that's definitely a no-no for me. Thanks mate good review as always 👍
Ah Lorne sausage! (When camping and walking in scotland I have almost always been asked "do you want sausage or a"piece"". . the usual name for lorne sausage. The piece i get is usualy larger in area than yours but much thinner so it fries quicker. I fry the in their own"juice, addling small sliced tin potatoes with them so they absorb the juices and brown nicely. fry a couple of eggs in the same juice and you have a cracking breakfast on a piece of toast. I was told by an old native on the isle of Mull that a Scottish piece should fit a slice of pan bread almost exactly!
Mechanicly seporrated usually means after it’s been run over by a car a few times.Then it’s scrapped off the road and put into a plastic bag.Then it’s packaged at a processing plant.
I really like the way you chew and allow the flavour to develop on your taste buds before you give a verdict…so often the “ posh” chefs put something in their mouths and immediately give a verdict…usually something they’ve cooked and “ it’s delicious “. Hmmmm
Square slice is much better ( and more expensive ) from local butcher shops. Local newsagents in Scotland are a good source of fine butchers’ sausage, they might also sell black pudding and rolls so were very popular on a Saturday or Sunday morning for a quick breakfast when getting the morning paper back in the day. I’m pretty sure the “Frasers “ is an Aldi own make brand.
The Aldi stores down south show Fraser's products on their website, but state they are only available in Scottish stores only. But judging by your review, that's one they can keep!
Used to serve similar in the works canteen and all the overweight guys used to fill their boots with 2 square sausage rolls before their shift . Never eaten this for years . Be careful eating this or you'll end up with a coronary stuffing this down your throat.
Farm Foods also do Lorne Sausage, I liked it. I have to make my own here in the Philippines, I use 50% pork mince, 50% beef mince. Look on TH-cam for the recipe, much better to make your own.
These are made by Simon Howie factory for Aldi. Have never found a decent Lorne sausage in any supermarket apart from Morrisons in-house butcher counter. Have only found decent stuff in Scottish local butchers and even some of them are not great - go by word of mouth!
Maybe try We Hae Meat or Simon Frasers (i.e. not that Aldi one)? 2X slice, bacon and egg is the thing to try. That's you Scottish now though (if you'd want), basically are when you're from the North of England anyways. 👍
Must admit I save a fortune at my local Aldi, since they never in stock what I’m after… Last night I dropped by after work to try find those Herb Onion sausages you reviewed recently. An ‘operative’ pointed to the empty shelf “Don’t Av any mate”. Sigh ! Never mind. Perhaps some Strawberry’s…. Found a tired looking Punnet with ‘Do not disturb’ written over it. Racking my brains, didn’t want a wasted trip. Did I want any PPE equipment ? No. Threw in the towel. Then almost on closing time nearly got mowed down by a pensioner with an ‘out of gauge load’ in the express lane. Suppose there’s always another time…
I might have to give these a try myself, although judging by the Gareth face test, I shouldn't get my hopes up. I wonder if the "beef connective tissue" is tendons and whatnot, or is it lips and anoos? Mmmm.
Eggs are the healthiest food you can have fried or not. No fat just protein. I would have put that pack down as soon as I seen the ingredients. Don't like the idea of connective tissue. At least when you buy sausage they don't put that on the packet 🤔💚 8:10 💛❤️
Hi Gareth, I new your answer before you said it your eyes said it all 👎 cook the remaining 2 in your air fryer & give them to your dog all the best Lin 👍🙂
After having done a little previous research into Lorne sausage I think that the reason that the taste of the meat that you’re eating isn’t quite what you expected is because a proper Lorne sausage should have a small proportion of fatty pork mince included so that the fat cooks out of the product and forms a nicer tasting fond in the pan that is then picked up by the beef. If I might suggest if you try using a lump of lard melted down to cook the remaining pieces of the Lorne sausage in you might find that it changes the taste for you. My research led me to believe that a mixture of beefsteak mince and minced pork shoulder in a proportion of 80% /20% beef/pork gives you a nice taste and texture, which depending upon how much lard you use to cook in should be enough for the tastes to reach a more flavourful result.
From an ancient mariner and chief cook and bottlewasher you are exactly correct.
Alright gordon
Spot on mate without Pork it not a Lorne sausage it’s a burger and put them into a cold pan to start.
The Best Lorne you can get is from a local butcher, most supermarket one are rubbish.
It's hard to find a butcher these days. I used to buy a full steak lorne from a butcher in Partick. He made it with onion and it was awesome. Sadly gone now. It's almost impossible to get a bit of mutton or gigot chops. Or steaks with seasoning. And sawdust on the floor. I'm not young!
I agree. A good quality Butchers steak Lorne is unbeatable :)
@@stephenkelly1887 head down to killie, there's a proper butcher on John Finnie street, still had sawdust untill fairly recently, no doubt health and safty bollocks made him stop that.
@@just-gaming213 There are 2 really good butchers in Dumfries. One of them has won all sorts of awards. Their haggis is amazing. They've been on telly. The other one does amazing beef olives, but no mutton. Cooked properly, mutton is more tasty and tender than lamb It is a wee bit more firm, but slow cooked it's amazing
@@andy70d35 Hi Andy. I agree, with one caveat. The best Lorne I've ever eaten was when the Parents lived in France. It was the only thing the Old Man missed so Mum did Her normal, dug out the antique Kenwood and made it Herself!
Good old Scottish square slice. Best in a roll with brown sauce.
Not square, but then neither is sliced bread which is where this belongs, between two slices of council issue bread with spreadable butter, not in a roll.
That's not proper Scottish square sausage, should be steak square slice.
@@X22GJP Nah, has to be a roll. It's a roll and sausage. Only use bread if your newsagents ran out of rolls.
do well.
best if it is a burnt roll
Being Scottish can't beat a bit of Lorne (or square) sausage...a tip though is always go for "steak lorne" much more flavour and less fatty tasting! Aldi do another brand, certainly in scottish stores, McCaulay's and the steak version is made with 69% beef flank steak and it's very tasty! Try that if you can.
Yes definitely steak one next time thank you.
Happy St Andrew's Day to all my fellow Scots, wherever you may be in the world right now. And the same to all non-Scots reading this. Hae a pure dead brilliant day.
It's andy to know it's today, it's scot to be said!
brillyant surely?
Cheers Jock from a fellow Celt all the way down in Cornwall
Can't understand what's great about it, just another miserable day and my heating allowance has gone! Ah well 😂.
Try a roll and black pudding with English mustard, put's hairs on your chest 😂!
Hi Gareth, I'm Scottish and I live in Scotland and I've tried square sausage from all sources from freezer shops, supermarkets and local butchers. Generally the ones in plastic bags are rubbish I wouldn't give them to my dog. Supermarket prepacked sausages are better but still rubbish, I've tried Fraser's not great. Butchers are better, my local butcher used to make excellent steak slice sausages but he has retired and the quality has gone down hill. I now make my own it's not hard and they are much better and cheaper. Well done Gareth love watching your videos, keep up the good work.
What happened eh?
I remember back in the late seventies and eighties and they were good.
I also remember my dad going to the butcher every Saturday and he’d buy the leftover sausage meat,a mix of beef and pork and he used to make patties for us. It’s so sad. Why change and mess with something that ain’t broken 😢
Funny you doing this today. I am trying Lorne sausage from a new company. The company offers many British style foods, and run by some expats from England. They also do bap style rolls, so that is dinner this evening with HP sauce of course. Usually get it from a Scottish butcher in Florida or one in New Jersey. I tried to donate to Movember for a cousin in England but it didn’t go through. Cheers mate on your success.
100% from the Butchers is the best way. Can say that for standard sausage as well as Lorne. Frozen stuff just doesn't hit the spot.
I loved square sausage and potato cakes as a kid.
Just like you I was not impressed with the sausage. The rolls where great.
I'm sure many true Scots will agree the only true Square Sausage is the Local Butcher home made. The taste and texture is 100% better than the Supermarket compressed meat paste type as in this clip
Totally agree!
Yeah I'm Scottish & the butchers is definitely the real deal 🙌
Costco Lorne sausage is pretty good but yeah local butchers is the best
I used to get it brought down to Sunderland by my partners family with black pudding white pudding and fruit pudding along with plain bread ideal for a weekend brekkie for the whole family. If i see it i get it from Iceland now.
Called square slice in Scotland your right butchers square slice a lot better in McGee's crispy roll in butter broon sauce.happy Saint Andrew's Day.🏴.
In some parts of Scotland, they cry it "flat sausage".
Butchers Lorne sausages are the best
I quite fancy a square sausage now. Great review and great to see all the videos, sorry i havent been in the comments for a while I've been trying to quit the drink again and finding it hard this time. Your videos are always very much appreciated thank you very much. You have no idea how much you have installed in me to quit the drink through you just being you and everything you do. Thank you and keep up the great work. All the best.
I wish you the very best pal
I was born in Govan, but brought up in Bradford! Going home in the school holidays was the highlight of our lives & tasting that first sausages sandwich with hp brown sauce was & still is, heaven! Then there's breakfast in the morning, but that's another tasty story! 🍀✝️🙏✝️🍀 The sandwich is so much better with Scottish bread!! Scots bread is far superior to the bread here in England! 🍀
Thanks for sharing!
Many years ago i used to get mine from Littlewoods. It came like a sliced loaf, 14 slices i think.
It was never fantastic, but it was so so cheap!!
As you say, quite edible.
Lorne Sausage is one of those that you either like or hate. My next door neighbour is from Scotland and finds it hard to this this sausage. He's also not a ' make your own ' type of guy. So I make him up a batch about once a month. As I've said in previous posts. I'm lucky to have access to our large Community Kitchen, with all the gadgets. I buy in the seasoning from eBay. After that I just get a mix of pork and beef, bung it through the mincer, add the seasoning and press it all down into a bread tin to get the shape. Over night in the fridge to firm it up and hey presto you have a Lorne sausage you can slice and freeze.
Obviously not everyone has a mincer. But you could use pork sausage meat instead. Although you would need to get the seasoning to mix in.
As I've said I'm lucky to have a large catering kitchen at my disposal and plenty of free time to make sausages and Black Pudding etc. I'm not saying I make better. I just really enjoy making sausages for my neighbours, even Haggis 😏😏 and I can make up different flavours you can't find in a shop. My favourite being beef and horseradish sausages. Great on a breakfast plate. One neighbour asked if I could make Gammon and Pineapple sausages? I did and she loves them.
Just in case people might think I do it for profit? My neighbours only pay for the ingredients and not a penny more.
A great review Gareth 👍👍. I love that you aren't reviewing restaurants that are charging £50 or £60 for a meal. 👏👏.
Thanks Gerry, all the best 👍
Thanks for trying these. I would have been excited to see them in Aldi, but you've saved me the trouble. I think I'll just make my own.
I've lived in Glasgow all my life and lorne is a sausage we always go to. Put straight in a frying pan, no oil and on the lowest gas heat and just leave it to slow cook. It cooks lovely and soft and tasty. If you want to try a decent lorne then try an online butcher from Scotland and you won't go wrong. Supermarket lorne can be hit and miss.
@Ian-ky6hm so glad you said no oil mate..Don't need it and its a good measure of how good the sausage is..If too much oil comes out its usually too greasy..but I'd still eat it 😀
This is my most favourite food site on TH-cam. No fancy restaurants charging more for one meal than my pension. I'm a Lidl and Aldi shopper. If you want decent quality fresh meat with a low fat content? They are the shops you want. If you check out many of the suppliers names? You will find that a lot of the items are also supplied to the higher priced stores for a lot more.
I do go on a bit don't I?
And who are those suppliers and supermarkets they supply for Gerry?
@Nolimitss6
Well let's take a look see.
First, Red Bull. The Co-Op get supplied with cans without prices on the can. My local Convience store stocks Red Bull pre priced. The Co-Op averages a minimum of 50p per can above that.
They also sell carrot cake and chocolate cake. Which comes in the same packaging as Lidl, other than having Co-Op on the packaging. A check of the producer was the same, but the Co-Op price was £2+ dearer. I won't go into the full list, but I have found that if you check out certain items from say, Lidl or Aldi they will buy their products from the same supplier as a major supermarket, but the retail price will be cheaper. These products cover a lot of items from Black Pudding to fresh fish. Prior to being a pensioner I never really bothered about checking out the supplier. Why should I buy, for example, smoked Haddock from a major retailer for over £4 or £5 when I can buy the same item from the same supplier, fishery, for at least £2 cheaper? OK, you can claim that the major retailer buys in a better quality, but to me? If I can save a few quid from my pension? I will. I drink roughly 4 cans of Red Bull in a day, not healthy I know, but for the sake of walking about 100 mtrs I can save £2+ per day. That's my point.
Sorry they were not to good, but this is my birthday treat, am 62 today. Brilliant video as usual. Thanks for your hard work
Happy birthday!
You're on 62 once!
Happy Birthday, Dale! I'm 78, though not today. Got to wait 7 months to 79.
@SuperLittleTyke Thanks very much
Happy birthday 🎉🎉
Genuinely Disheartened 😢💯😳😭
Because I’ve been waiting for them to appear in Aldi nationwide for years,to hear they’re not that pleasant is a gutter . As always,totally thankful to you for taking the time to review these
Lorne and butcher sausage are not the same thing. Butcher mostly make their own square slice and Lorne is processed.
@@anndenovan9026 Nah, butchers in Scotland make their own lorne sausage with variations in the meat and spices, etc they put in.
Try them first,I have and I thought they were nice.Just cos Gareth doesn’t like them doesn’t mean you won’t 👍🏼
@@anndenovan9026 absolute nonsense. Every butcher makes lorne.
You would love the black eyed jack which is the Scottish loran sausage with black pudding in the middle. It must be eaten on a soft Scottish morning roll. I think you would be blown away. Would love to see you try this, i guarantee you will not be disappointed 👍. Try first without the brown sauce. I can feel my arteries hardening already 😂
Being Scottish i dry fry these if i have them (had a sausage sarnie this morning). You don't need to add oil. I used Morrisons own brand broon!
@@roythomson555 Agree..dry fry...don't need oil..
I have watched lots of British food related videos and have always been fascinated by your love of Brown Sauce. In Australia, the two main sauces for sausages and burgers and pies and meat generally are tomato sauce (aka ketchup) and BBQ sauce. I have recently tracked down some brown sauce, specifically HP Brown Sauce. SO far a quick taste out of the bottle, I haven't had it on anything yet. BBQ sauce is brown in colour but there the similarity ends. It is usually sweet, often smoky and overall richer than brown sauce. Next step, brown sauce in context. Let the games begin.
Once had square sausage with Italian seasoning. The best square sausage I've ever had.
Roll with square and a tattie scone is a taste from the old country the thought of which brings a tear to my eye. I always stock up when I'm over visiting family. Thanks for prompting the reminiscence Gaz!
@magicaardvark1 maybe stick a fried egg in there aswell?
@@dereksutherland8020 Strong Approve!
Always like watching Garth's Sausage!😮
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Who’s Garth?
@@Allbluethings He’s Wayne’s best friend in Wayne’s World 🤣
You enjoy that nearly as much as starmer likes smoking sausages.
He’s only Happy when he’s got some Meat in his Gob 🤔😂
Beef Connective tissue = Tendons , Ligaments, and Silver skin. It's not bad for people , rich in Amino acids. Its a lump of pick and mix . god know's what they throw in it , maybe the Badger is giving the funny flavour. Daddies sort out everything 😁
I like lorne sausage but its not always easy to get down south.
What i did find this week in Aldi were Maple and Bacon Sausages (New}. Quite tasty wih a bit of a smokey flavour, not too herby ore spicy. Went down well for brekkie with all the usual fry up stuff.
Gareth you can get steak lorne which is much better.
Think that is what I had.
Simon Howie steak square sausage from most supermarkets is good but, you need HP sauce. But, best of all is steak square from a butcher.
I used to live in Glasgow and my local butcher (which is now shut 😭) used to do morning rolls and did square sausage with a black pudding heart! Yummy! In a crispy roll was just magic!
I loved square sausage when I was working on Shetland, I didn't realise it was beef but I knew it was on the red side of the traffic light system from how nice it tastes 😂
Buy them every sat with a well fired roll delicious 😊😊😊😊
Are you from CORBY ?
Hi Gareth, I love the Lorne sausage from Iceland, It's nice stacked as a burger with chesse and a 1/4 pounder beef burger🤤😋 Good to see you have done well for Movember.
Happy St Andrews day to our Celtic brothers in Scotland.
As always great video Take care
Thanks Shaun
I'm born and bred in London my wife is Scottish, always look forward to a roll and sausage when i'm up there.
Add a fried egg, tattie scone in a morning roll. Sauce or butter to taste.
Mechanical meat tends to lack flavour compared to proper butcher cuts so one option would be to remix the sausage meat with seasoning and using that. Which makes me think they could be used for filling homemade sausage rolls.
Nice one. Cheers. A fine Scottish Breakfast with Lorne Sausage, Tattie Scones and Black Pudding (Ditch the Hash Browns), is bloody-lovely. A real treat. I think I know what you mean about the meat. Was it an empty, watery taste. A bit like cheap frozen sausages? It is worse than unseasoned food. The cheapest cuts, or scraps of meat. I hate that stuff.
The best square sausage I ever had was in a "crispy roll" from a hole in the wall place in Glasgow. I was told that she made her own.
Yum 😋
My Uncle owns a butchers in NE Scotland , little town called Forres . Murdoch Bros Butchers . They do a lovely square sausage and is sold throughout Scotland .
Fantastic. Great from a butchers for sure.
I'm from Scotland. I love steak slice (Lorne sausage), but it must come from the butchers
At £1.35 for 4 Lorne sausages ( in Scotland, we call them square sausages), a good quality square sausage would cost between £2.50 and £3 for 4, and every butcher has their own recipe.
Not to be confused with "lawn sausages". 🐶
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@@darrenwilliams118 😂😂nice one
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Thanks Gareth another interesting vid. Ive had the Scottish Lorne sausage in Scotland several times but it was always declared as locally produced and tasted ok. From the second you bit into the sandwich you looked as if you had instant indigestion, not a good look. I'll give it a miss thanks. All the best.👍
Haha yes i wasn't keen lol could you tell 🤣. Thanks Martin, all the best 👍
TBH, I would’ve cooked fried onions and used HP sauce. Daddies doesn’t cut it for me. IMO Useful as ever, loved the VLOG👍😎
Used to have this all the time, came in a bag of around 10 of them, im thinking from Asda or iceland, been quiet a few years. Will keep a look out for these next time im in the Aldis.
Enjoy pal
Thank you Gareth for your lovely vlog I was always told if it don’t taste right don’t eat it you must look after yourself keep up the good work best wishes Sheila and family
Thanks
Wee cheese slice on top...makes it taste brilliant
It's not easy to get the good quality Lorne sausage down here, all the mainstream supermarket ones are not that great. Halls used to be decent but haven't been in years and most recently they gone even more downhill. Traditional Lorne Sausage is made with pork mince, beef mince, butcher's rusk and spices and is easy to make yourself so well worth a go. When home in Scotland a couple of month's ago I did get a chance to try some steak Lorne and that was excellent, really tasty and there's a few Scottish butchers who sell online to the rest of the UK so may give them a go sometime.
Always best with butchers sausage here in scotland I sometimes steam four square add some chopped shallots and add gravy at end after poring out water from sausage and serve with mash or homemade potato croquettes also Simon Howe has good range of meats and vegetarian options
I used to love square sausage which many people in the area I live in simply call it "Slice" do you had a piece n slice. What puts me off eating supermarket and butchers slice now is the fact most of what I've seen contains the red food colouring carmines and I know where that comes from. I don't know why they feel the need ro make it looks more red and meaty. It wouldn't bother me if the Lorne looked a bit peely wally. There used to be a supermarket brand called Halls that didn't have that colouring. But you can't find that anymore.
hi Gareth, dont think Ive ever seen you with Bramwell's Brown Sauce from Aldi, I'm a bit like you liking brown sauce on stuff ( usually corned beef or sausage ! ) I much prefer Bramwells to Daddies/HP/Chop and as bonus it's 2/3 of the cost of the brands
Sounds great!
Is that per slice or the packet gaz
Slice
Iceland used to do some in a bag… think it was only about £1 or so for about 8-10 slices. Was a bit thinner than that tho. Don’t know if they still do it.
Can’t be worse than the nations favourite sausage ‘Richmond’
@nickreestearsofaclown4661 Richmond Sausages nooooooooo
Would thankyou for them lol
They're vile aimed at mug buyers
44% pork where the legal minimum is 42%
. Even Lidl's sausages are 76%.
We just call it sausage, as in "can i have a roll on sausage please"
We only really differentiate it as square or lorne when explaining it to non natives. 😉
What you guys might refer to as sausages or bangers are in fact "links" as in beef or pork links.
That stuff fi the supermarket is really just suitable for making stovies. The gid stuff comes fi the butchers.
Top work Gaz.
If you ask for a sausage where I am they would ask if you want link or square.
@markwilkie3677 our default is always square unless links are specified.
Cheers
Aberdeen Angus Lorne has a much better taste. But it is considerably more expensive and you might still not like it - but we do!
I live in Devon and 35 years ago went offshore, had never heard of this. Generically it was called square sausage, as others have said supermarket product can be hit or miss. If I could find a local butcher source I would always use that. Offshore I think the make was McKechnie Jess.I thought that was good until Davy aye-aye brought some from a butcher in Glasgow. Btw the connective tissues ie most of the beef is really mechanically reclaimed hooves eyelids and arseholes😄
It goes by the name of square, sliced, and Lorne in Scotland.
Nice sausage 👍
Square sausage is an essential part of a Full Scottish breakfast.
Butchers square mate 100% better than processed shite
Yeah, you want to be paying double that for decent square sausage.
Aye, that's richt, should be at least 85% lean beef content and as tou say, twice the price.
Mmmmm yummy especially with full Scottish breakfast
Lorne sausage is the posh name. Up here it's a square sausage. As with all sausages, and pies, the flavour is down to the spices used and every butcher has their own recipe. It is most commonly consumed as fast food from a burger van and usually in a 'Scotch' morning roll, and you just don't get those south of the border where the bap is preferred. Brown sauce is much requested, though "red sauce" is also available and usually fried onions are offered. Best obtained from a burger van outside an industrial estate. It is often enjoyed with a fried tattie scone and /or a fried egg, a cholesterol time bomb.
The beef connective tissue part part put me off so I'll give that miss but thanks a lot 😊
Once again, you took one for the team. Great work, and thank you. Cheers Pat in New Jersey
Our pleasure!
It’s edible, yes….but so is Chappie and I wouldn’t eat that either.
You’d have been better off with two nice eggs, full of nutrients
and no connective give tissue.
Good on you for giving it a fair appraisal Gareth.
You are a trooper!
Have a lovely weekend.😊
The only exception I make on the pre packed supermarket compressed meat paste square or lorne sausage is the Malcolm Allan Onion Lorne which has quite a pleasant taste but still the same paste consistency as the rest
You've definetly done Bells Scotch Pies, but AFAIK you haven't tried the Bells Chilli Scotch Pies from Farmfoods.
Mate start them in a cold pan on a medium heat the melting fat will be sufficient. Cook Duck breast the same way.
Happy St Andrews Day😊 Square Sausage is always better from the butchers
Those beef Lorne sausages looked like they had a bad case of Acne in the frying pan🤢😂. 48% beef that's definitely a no-no for me. Thanks mate good review as always 👍
Ah Lorne sausage! (When camping and walking in scotland I have almost always been asked "do you want sausage or a"piece"". . the usual name for lorne sausage. The piece i get is usualy larger in area than yours but much thinner so it fries quicker. I fry the in their own"juice, addling small sliced tin potatoes with them so they absorb the juices and brown nicely. fry a couple of eggs in the same juice and you have a cracking breakfast on a piece of toast. I was told by an old native on the isle of Mull that a Scottish piece should fit a slice of pan bread almost exactly!
Mechanicly seporrated usually means after it’s been run over by a car a few times.Then it’s scrapped off the road and put into a plastic bag.Then it’s packaged at a processing plant.
Tried these once and once was enough. Brave man trying these for us Gareth. Take care love the channel 👍
Thanks 👍
You need to try the butcher square sausage some pre packed are not the same.
@annbow4064 will do thanks 😊
Unexciting square sausage . Still worth a view . Thanks for advice . Best wishes .😊😊😊
I really like the way you chew and allow the flavour to develop on your taste buds before you give a verdict…so often the “ posh” chefs put something in their mouths and immediately give a verdict…usually something they’ve cooked and “ it’s delicious “. Hmmmm
Square slice is much better ( and more expensive ) from local butcher shops. Local newsagents in Scotland are a good source of fine butchers’ sausage, they might also sell black pudding and rolls so were very popular on a Saturday or Sunday morning for a quick breakfast when getting the morning paper back in the day.
I’m pretty sure the “Frasers “ is an Aldi own make brand.
Loved square sausage and potato cakes as a kid.
The Aldi stores down south show Fraser's products on their website, but state they are only available in Scottish stores only. But judging by your review, that's one they can keep!
Used to serve similar in the works canteen and all the overweight guys used to fill their boots with 2 square sausage rolls before their shift . Never eaten this for years . Be careful eating this or you'll end up with a coronary stuffing this down your throat.
Farm Foods also do Lorne Sausage, I liked it. I have to make my own here in the Philippines, I use 50% pork mince, 50% beef mince. Look on TH-cam for the recipe, much better to make your own.
Sounds great!
I had not heard of beef sausage before you reviewed it, you lorne something new every day!
Lorne Sausage, lovely Stewed in some bisto with onions and mashed potato. Scottish bangers and mash
Proper scotch sausage my old mate from Glasgow used to have was delicious 😋
My dog does lawn sausages. I don’t want to chow down on them though.😂😂
I think I'll be giving it a miss Gareth, thanks for another honest review 💜💜💜
Best of buying some mince and making your own from scratch. You could do quite a few and freeze some for later. Good honest vid, nice one mate.
“Never mind, just a sleepless night tonight”…I burst out laughing.
These are made by Simon Howie factory for Aldi. Have never found a decent Lorne sausage in any supermarket apart from Morrisons in-house butcher counter. Have only found decent stuff in Scottish local butchers and even some of them are not great - go by word of mouth!
Maybe try We Hae Meat or Simon Frasers (i.e. not that Aldi one)? 2X slice, bacon and egg is the thing to try.
That's you Scottish now though (if you'd want), basically are when you're from the North of England anyways. 👍
Corner sausage should only be eaten on a roll with either brown sauce or tomato sauce
Classic jakey tea. Quality!
I used to cook square sausage all the time when i was younger, may be one of the reasons i'm overweight lol
Must admit I save a fortune at my local Aldi, since they never in stock what I’m after…
Last night I dropped by after work to try find those Herb Onion sausages you reviewed recently.
An ‘operative’ pointed to the empty shelf “Don’t Av any mate”. Sigh !
Never mind. Perhaps some Strawberry’s…. Found a tired looking Punnet with ‘Do not disturb’ written over it.
Racking my brains, didn’t want a wasted trip. Did I want any PPE equipment ? No.
Threw in the towel. Then almost on closing time nearly got mowed down by a pensioner with an ‘out of gauge load’ in the express lane.
Suppose there’s always another time…
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Best to go first thing, in the evenings the shelves are bare, i never bother going shopping say after 4pm, they hardly re-stock them during the day.
Fry in oil, love it, English discovering Scottish cuisine, hilarious 😂
Nice sausage but the Steak Lorne is best .... More taste 😊
It's the original
I might have to give these a try myself, although judging by the Gareth face test, I shouldn't get my hopes up. I wonder if the "beef connective tissue" is tendons and whatnot, or is it lips and anoos? Mmmm.
Bits of everything. Probably best avoided. Thanks for the review.
Yup, scrag ends and poo holes.
No worries!
Might give these ago, I think an egg is a must though!
Eggs are the healthiest food you can have fried or not. No fat just protein. I would have put that pack down as soon as I seen the ingredients. Don't like the idea of connective tissue. At least when you buy sausage they don't put that on the packet 🤔💚 8:10 💛❤️
Hi Gareth, I new your answer before you said it your eyes said it all 👎 cook the remaining 2 in your air fryer & give them to your dog all the best Lin 👍🙂
Yes not good Lin