The eternal sausage search

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 12:03 pm

Ok, so in Finland they hide the meat, in the UK it is a case of 'hide the Salami' - was that an essex girl???

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Donald · Post by **Donald** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 12:45 pm

Hey Hank,

I wonder if they knew by the smile on her face...

The story reminds me of the the movie When Harry met Sally. Remember the Meg Ryan scene in the deli...especially when the woman at the next table tells her waitress, "I'll have whatever she's having."

IrishStudent · Post by **IrishStudent** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:20 pm

What I had in Mind is to get some of the big supermarket chains interested and get a deal to supply them on a trial basis, then undertake some marketing and get the public to taste the offerings which should get them buying.

The second option would be to produce them inhouse so to speak and contract out the making of the sausages to a local producer for commercial selling. Then as demand grows get invsetors to buy our own plant to make the sasusages , i know of one large meat plant in Kouvola which will be for sale or rent in the next 2 years as the firm there are relocating. Long term expansion could mean selling in Sweden etc so eventually our iwn trucks etc and then on to Norway and the World!!! Also cocktail sausages would be a hit i reckon. As said we may have to import the skins but this should be easy.

Third option would be to do a deal with a company to market their sausages in Finland and take a percentage of each order contracted.

So lets do this , lets change the face of sausages as every tom, dick and mikko knows it. Im DEADLY SERIOUS about this i reckon its a winner.

Ace · Post by **Ace** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 6:04 pm

neil wrote: The company name is Wurst Fennica and their web address is http://www.wurstfennica.fi but their website is lacking content at present

Why dont we make them a deal? We'll develop them a website if they make us some sausages

Theres quite a pool of people with the necessary skills on here.

(web development not sausage making

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tjawatts · Post by **tjawatts** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:13 pm

Finnish people like their sausages as they are. My (avo) father-in-law had some sausages in a english pub once and said, "what were they? They aren't sausages". Granted he is quite an old guy, but they do go for the german style more water than meat sausages here. I think your market is limited mainly to expats.

Tony

Ace · Post by **Ace** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 11:06 pm

tjawatts wrote:Finnish people like their sausages as they are. My (avo) father-in-law had some sausages in a english pub once and said, "what were they? They aren't sausages". Granted he is quite an old guy, but they do go for the german style more water than meat sausages here. I think your market is limited mainly to expats.

Tony

Yeah I reckon that would be the case too. When I imported some cumberlands for personal consumption earlier this year. The finns I know didn't like the look of them at all.

meenfreem · Post by **meenfreem** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:26 am

olly wrote: Why dont we make them a deal? We'll develop them a website if they make us some sausages

http://images.fazed.org/viewer.php?source=htmlcoder.jpg (in case it can't be linked through forums)

darn right... I was actually contemplating to post an add like this in a newspaper

Post by **neil** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:40 am

I think you should go and stand under the Stockmann clock for a few hours with a clipboard and do some MR.

PeterF · Post by **PeterF** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:55 am

olly wrote:
tjawatts wrote:Finnish people like their sausages as they are.

Tony
The finns I know didn't like the look of them at all.

Well Maippi likes both English Sausages and Black Pudding..which she claims has been copied by or from the Tampere Musta Markaroita.
She had no worries about the huge chunks of white fat in the black pudding..she happily scoffed several slices at the Full English breakfast my daughter in law serves up..(together with streaky bacon and fried eggs etc..)
But we were in a small village and both the Black pudding and the sausages were hand crafted by the local butcher..no plastic package to give away content details ....because here she examines every packet of sausages to check it's rasva/meat ratio...same with Ham..and her Cheese that has to be max 12% and as near to plastic as possible...

meenfreem · Post by **meenfreem** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:57 am

arrrrr *dribble dribble*

plastic cheese.... plastic cheese is good

PeterF · Post by **PeterF** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 1:01 pm

meenfreem wrote:arrrrr *dribble dribble*

plastic cheese.... plastic cheese is good

Plastic Cheese and Wooden shoes and liitle boys poking their fingers in to holes

= Holland.

Now if your were to get your teeth into a nice mature Cheddar or Double Gloucester or a ripe Stilton with a splash of vintage port ..that would give you something better to stick in the hole in the dyke

MinnaRaisanen · Post by **MinnaRaisanen** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 2:03 pm

What is black pudding?

Ace · Post by **Ace** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 2:13 pm

MinnaRaisanen wrote:What is black pudding?

Boiled blood I think, I used to like it as a kid, now I know what it is I wont touch it although it is delicious.

MinnaRaisanen · Post by **MinnaRaisanen** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 2:22 pm

oh....

PeterF · Post by **PeterF** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 2:24 pm

Ace wrote:
MinnaRaisanen wrote:What is black pudding?
Boiled blood I think, I used to like it as a kid, now I know what it is I wont touch it although it is delicious.

Tampere Musta Makara is very similar to black pudding..I think because the only black pudding I have eaten was produced by a Scotish lady and it might not have been authentic..but Musta Makara does not travel well at least it never seems to taste the same as in a Tampere pub.
Plevna Pub in the old Finnlasson factory in Tampere makes the trip to Tampere worth while.
http://www.plevna.fi/index_e.html
See Menu and Sausages and then look for Tamparilainen.

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