Recently I wrote about a neighbour of mine who is at his wit’s end due to the wrapping on sausages. He claims they just won’treseal properly.
The response I got was phenomenal. It seems my neighbour is not alone.
From the letters and emails I received, clearly, many are fed up with inferior sausage wrapping. And up to now, they had been suffering in silence. Well, suffer no longer. The cat is out of the bag, and I will highlight the problem with sausages until the issue is resolved.
One letter I received, I will relate today, as I think not only does it back up my neighbour’s plight, but also takes the matter of inferior wrapping to a whole new level.
Margaret began her letter by praising me for my writing on sausages.
She goes on to say that she fries two sausages and a rasher for her daughter each morning before the girl sets off to school.
And I ask you, in these cold wintry mornings, who wouldn’t want the nourishment that such a feed would provide? For this alone I think Margaret deserves a medal. If I had one, I’d award her a Denny gold medal.
The saintly woman then points out that should her husband be hovering around the kitchen, she might well light up the frying pan once more, and treat him to a sizzling breakfast too.
After that she concurs with my piece on sausages, saying that she also is fed up trying to reseal them. But now the tale takes a twist, when she turns on rashers. According to Margaret, she finds it near impossible to open a packet of rashers without the help of a sharp knife or strong scissors. And this is one of those packets of rashers on which is written the instruction to peel back the top to release the rashers.
Well there is nothing simple about it, she says. "It would be easier to release someone from jail, than release the rashers for the pack."
She finishes her letter by writing, "Not only do I have sausages that will not reseal properly, but rashers that cannot be opened."
Honestly, before the topic of a good healthy breakfast is finished, we may well be holding a tribunal of investigation.
a d v e r t i s e m e n t
This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Thursday, February 09, 2012
