tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post2037539839496905219..comments2024-01-29T03:04:24.219+11:00Comments on Flinders Family Freer: Cattle la lowing!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-70507903360775224922010-06-06T13:46:12.550+10:002010-06-06T13:46:12.550+10:00Our ones in SA were a lot thinner and smaller than...Our ones in SA were a lot thinner and smaller than the ones we were selling.<br /><br />For our kids parties Dave cooked little pork cocktail sausages and attached them by toothpick to a cucumber he had made a mouth at one end of with red cherry teeth,and we served crocodile, or dragon sausage, and they were always first to be finished on the table of sweets and chips etc. Some years they even ate the cucumber!!Barbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356146279347458771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-52948763682435113412010-06-06T13:37:59.704+10:002010-06-06T13:37:59.704+10:00As I was reading this I had the makings in the fri...As I was reading this I had the makings in the fridge for a hotdog so guess that's for lunch. <br /><br />Saveloys, frankfurts, little boys, cocktail frankfurts, all equal a red skinned casing with a fine sausage mixture that is either boiled or microwaved. I think every Aussie kid has eaten the little boys at some stage in their life or seen them at a kid's party.Tania Shipmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01217473097772335470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-85511848545948353382010-06-06T10:26:26.467+10:002010-06-06T10:26:26.467+10:00The hot dog (most common name I think) is known as...The hot dog (most common name I think) is known as a saveloy (or sav) in some parts, a frankfurt in others. They come in a variety of sizes, from the large ones Barbs describes to small ones known variously as cheerios (maybe in Queensland)to 'little boys' (guess why!) in others. Little boys are greatly popular at children's parties.<br />You would generally buy battered savs at the fish and chip shop.Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06929208891358789177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-68144152482964550812010-06-05T10:39:12.978+10:002010-06-05T10:39:12.978+10:00I reckon it is part of 'survival of the fittes...I reckon it is part of 'survival of the fittest', if he is too dumb to get out of the way, his genes should not live on!Barbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356146279347458771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-88743987539476831652010-06-05T06:35:26.127+10:002010-06-05T06:35:26.127+10:00Still no reason to waste the cow. Just cut it up a...Still no reason to waste the cow. Just cut it up and let folks take a haunch or other piece home. I've dressed out a deer* in my back yard and butchered it in the kitchen.<br /><br />*Ever see those shoulder patches for trophy points and weapon used? Mine would say "Whitetail Spike buck -- 1980 Pontiac Station Wagon" :D<br /><br />Hey, I can't help that he stuck his noggin square in front of my headlight...after I'd slowed down to let his buddy and him cross the road. Some critters are just too dumb to live. But that one was mighty tasty. :)Silverdrakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13507585114144154626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-7996500760165092772010-06-04T08:20:00.406+10:002010-06-04T08:20:00.406+10:00There is an abbattoir here, and there seems to be ...There is an abbattoir here, and there seems to be a long story as to why it no longer functions. More to do with someone needing to buy it, than not being properly licenced, as I understand it currently. It is big enough to do sheep and pigs and the occasional cow, not big enough to really deal with cattle, so I hear, and the island has mostly gone over to growing beef.Barbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356146279347458771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-41667157048477866712010-06-04T08:16:41.387+10:002010-06-04T08:16:41.387+10:00Mike, the saveloy here is a sausage with a red out...Mike, the saveloy here is a sausage with a red outer layer, and skin that it is necessary to split while boiling to get it to taste extra good! They are about 3cm wide, and the texture is very fine, like a Vienna sausage in South Africa, but a lot bigger. They are not battered at all, here, just served in a slice of white bread with tomato sauce added to taste. No mustard in sight.Barbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356146279347458771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-15768818695945631342010-06-03T23:28:34.413+10:002010-06-03T23:28:34.413+10:00We generally call them hot dogs.
Last weekend I w...We generally call them hot dogs.<br /><br />Last weekend I was at a train station, and an American couple ordered hot dogs...they were very surprised to see them then being fished out of hot water...I think they were after what we call a sausage (which you would usually grill or fry).<br /><br />The intricacies of the various English dialects ;)kesalemmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158635081341630844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-16219469030764092602010-06-03T23:19:49.396+10:002010-06-03T23:19:49.396+10:00We have something very similar called a "Hot ...We have something very similar called a "Hot Link".<br /><br />I must say I am still amazed when you mention that you have no meat processing facilities on Flinders....the little town of 700 that I lived in before marrying Christine had one. It was most busy during deer season. The man who owns it is also a farmer and you gave him a call to set up a time. In fact, now that I think of it, the next town over (14 miles away) had a similar situation.<br /><br />Is this due to tougher regulations in Oz?Quilly_Mammothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233071648647457818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-39203778125817482642010-06-03T21:52:23.099+10:002010-06-03T21:52:23.099+10:00A diner told me a story the other night, he swore ...A diner told me a story the other night, he swore it was true !<br /><br />At the annual Potjie fest he decided to enter with a pigtail Potjie, a derivation of oxtail.<br /><br />Now it so happens that he had a pig that had been born without a tail, so he painted a red ring round the missing part and let the pig run around during the competition.<br /><br />The bunny huggers were appalled until the birth defect was explained.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11418497274946318891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-23570150493557675782010-06-03T19:59:54.575+10:002010-06-03T19:59:54.575+10:00You've taught me a new word -- saveloy. Accord...You've taught me a new word -- saveloy. According to the article I found, Australian versions are usually battered -- but it sounds as if you were boiling them, so I don't think they'd be battered. Of course, it also talked about New Zealand having bigger ones (eyebrow lifted) but didn't mention Flinder's Island, so I'm not quite sure about your local ones. Fun!Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01422171964652699673noreply@blogger.com