A sausage roll is a British menu staple however Jeremy Clarkson’s is fairly dear.
I style take a look at Jeremy Clarkson’s £6 sausage roll
It was no shock when Jeremy Clarkson put in a pop up of his Farmer’s Canine pub on the inaugural Nice British Farm Fest over the Might Financial institution Vacation weekend provided that his Hawkstone beer was one of many sponsors. Naturally, he included some meals choices from the menu and, feeling a bit peckish, I assumed I’d avail. My jaw actually dropped after I noticed {that a} sausage roll – an absolute staple of British menus – would set me again £6.
I used to be appalled on the ideas of spending greater than the value of most grocery store meal offers on one sausage roll – and never even an particularly huge one. Nonetheless, I felt compelled to attempt it out to see simply what made it so particular. So I tapped my card for the costliest sausage roll I’ve ever bought and, with an instantaneous sense of remorse serious about all of the snacks I may have purchased for £6, took it again to my desk. Though it was billed because the Nice British Pork Sausage Roll there wasn’t very a lot nice about it on first impressions. It was not very spectacular after I eliminated it from the brown paper bag it was provided in. Whilst you may see it was very meaty it was additionally extremely small and definitely did not look very filling.
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The menu board at Jeremy Clarkon’s pop up marketed the Nice British Pork Sausage Roll for £6 (Picture: Fran Winston)
Jeremy Clarkson’s Nice British Pork Sausage Roll was not very spectacular when faraway from the bag (Picture: Fran Winston)
As I took the primary chew a bit of the pastry additionally fell away which might be annoying at the very best of instances however at that worth that was round 50 pence value. It’s so small it was gone in about three mouthfuls.
I did discover it did not flake fairly as a lot as different sausage rolls I’ve had and there was a superb pastry to meat ratio. The meat filling was additionally very tasty.
All in all, it wasn’t a foul sausage roll – if I had paid about £2.50. However for £6 it simply did not maintain up. Whilst a fan of sausage rolls I undoubtedly would not pay that a lot for one in my each day life.
As I predicted it additionally did not fill me up and I needed to get one thing extra substantial afterwards. I admire it’s thought-about a snack however you’ll nonetheless count on it to stave off the starvation pangs for some time.
By way of pageant costs I perceive there are further overheads and in that state of affairs the value appears OK-ish. I imply you possibly can pay practically a tenner for a bag of chips at some festivals and you’re, to all intents and functions, a captive viewers. However exterior of such a contrived state of affairs it’s an extortionate worth for what’s mainly meat and pastry, which normally retails for round £1.50.
So as to add insult to harm, there was a glimpse of the sausage rolls really served within the pub within the newest season 5 Clarkson’s Farm and so they appeared way more substantial than what I paid for.
I have never been to the pub however I appeared up the menu and the sausage roll was nowhere to be seen. Nonetheless, on-line reviewers report various costs paying between £4.50 within the Farm Store to £6.50 for it within the pub. By comparability a regular connoisseur Cumberland roll on the Selfridges Meals Corridor prices round £3.99 – nonetheless dear however way more palatable.
Closing verdict – it was tasty however overpriced and much too small. I would not order it once more.
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