Dragon Sausages
The Welsh Dragon sausage is no more. You could put it down to the addition of the species to the endangered list but it is actually unbending trading standards officers who are to blame. They ruled that because the sausage doesn’t actually contain dragon meat it could confuse customers.
Now’s the time to do one of those exaggerated ‘Oh, pleeazze’ type sighs.
The sausages will now have to be labelled Welsh Dragon Pork Sausages to ‘avoid any confusion among customers’ so reports the Times.
Jon Carthew, 45, who makes the sausages, said yesterday that he had not received any complaints about the absence of real dragon meat. He said: “I don’t think any of our customers believe that we use dragon meat in our sausages. We use the word because the dragon is synonymous with Wales.” A Powys County Council spokesman said: “The product was not sufficiently precise to inform a purchaser of the true nature of the food.”
His company, the Black Mountains Smokery in Powys produces 200,000 sausages a year, including the Welsh Dragon, which is made with chili, leak and pork.
The well designed website offers a range of products - whole cooked hams, salmon and kippers, smoked cheese but sadly not a mention of sausages could I find dragon or otherwise.
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