False advertising: Boerewors

[Swa]

there's a difference????

Apparently some people think boerewors should have pork in it. Like the voortrekkers always had a supply of pigs on hand and could pick what they wanted to use.

 

[Binary_Bark]

NOOO, no pork in boere wors, it is in wors, boere wors is pure and magnificent

 

[supersunbird]

Boerewors ([ˈbuːrəvors]) is a type of sausage popular in South African cuisine and Zimbabwean cuisine. The name is derived from the Afrikaans words boer ("farmer") and wors ("sausage"). Boerewors must contain at least 90 percent meat - always containing beef, as well as lamb or pork or a mixture of lamb and pork. The other 10% is made up of spices and other ingredients. Not more than 30% of the meat content may be fat. Boerewors may not contain any “mechanically recovered” meat (meat derived through a process where meat and bone are mechanically separated).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerewors

 

[Fulcrum29]

You only get decent braaiwors once in a blue moon when shopping at a supermarket chain, soya wors... Our butcher has decent braaiwors, and lekker boerewors. Nowadays I buy boerewors in bulk to braai, and make boerewors rolls with tomato and onion sauce or with plain old English mustard.

 

[Fulcrum29]

It should be "Boerewors". Otherwise they like to call the cheaper product that doesn't abide by the boerewors standard "braaiwors". But be on the lookout for the crooks. Some products are called "Boerie Braaiwors" to confuse people. Its just cheap braaiwors. Also, another well known product used to be boerewors - I think it was Grabouw boerewors. A little while ago they changed it to Grabouw braaiwors and the recipe changed. Now the water content is much higher. But the price remains the same. Sneaky sneaky.

600g

http://www.woolworths.co.za/store/p.../Grabouw-Boerewors-Avg-600g/_/A-2060990000006

350g

http://www.woolworths.co.za/store/p.../Grabouw-Boerewors-Avg-350g/_/A-2085930000007

Yes, that is the Woolworths label. Grabouw boerewors, nonetheless.

 

[pinball wizard]

R99/kg for boerewors? Fark steaks you guys need to get yourselfs a local butcher...

 

[Thor]

R99 p/kg

For the steaks of vark.

That's a lot

 

[Fulcrum29]

R99/kg for boerewors? Fark steaks you guys need to get yourselfs a local butcher...

R99 p/kg

For the steaks of vark.

That's a lot

Depends on where you are buying...

 

[pinball wizard]

Depends on where you are buying...

Never, ever, at woolworfs.

 

[bwana]

I mostly use butchers, an Irish guy for my meat and British guys for proper, aka decent, pork sausages, but wors… we buy that from our local Spar. Sounds bad but they do a nice one that everyone in the house likes so it's automatically a winner.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Never, ever, at woolworfs.

Pick n Pay is not much easier on the bank account. That is Grabouw Boerewors, rather buy the 'no-name' Boerewors.

http://shop.pnp.co.za/b2c_pnp/b2c/d...129C4850E10080000A050131&cpgsize=12)/.do?rf=y

 

[Fulcrum29]

I mostly use butchers, an Irish guy for my meat and British guys for proper, aka decent, pork sausages, but wors… we buy that from our local Spar. Sounds bad but they do a nice one that everyone in the house likes so it's automatically a winner.

My local butchery, Rodenburg, has moved to Somerset Mall. They have a good meat selection, and you can take a quick notice that they target our local English and German residents. Rodenburg has excellent wors. For me, it is between Calvinia and Rodenburg butchery. Then I also have my local biltong supplier which, on occasion, will source the meat that I want at a good price. Then I can also source Hantam meat directly, thanks to people that I know in the Hantam-Karoo, Namakwaland and Boesmanland. On an odd day that I need to attend a braai on a late notice that I will pop into a supermarket to buy meat, but never wors.

 

[MickeyD]

I mostly use butchers, an Irish guy for my meat and British guys for proper, aka decent, pork sausages, but wors… we buy that from our local Spar. Sounds bad but they do a nice one that everyone in the house likes so it's automatically a winner.

Two Fat Butchers?

 

[bwana]

On an odd day that I need to attend a braai on a late notice that I will pop into a supermarket to buy meat, but never wors.

I won't buy steak from a supermarket, lamb and pork chops on occasion but the butcher at our spar makes a decent wors.

Two Fat Butchers?

Yeah - it's really the only option for porkies. I don't know what SA butchers imagine your typical British pork sausages are supposed to taste like but

If you ever want an authentic pork pie that's the place to go.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Never, ever, at woolworfs.

I specifically buy mine there. Their free range beef boerewors is excellent and consistent. A lot of other supermarket wors never tastes the same from one packet to the next for me.

 

[Binary_Bark]

listen go to the farm, take out your 270mm, shoot the animal, cut it to bits add your pork and spices and get the best boere wors ever

 

[MickeyD]

I won't buy steak from a supermarket, lamb and port chops on occasion but the butcher at our spar makes a decent wors.

unique marinade?

 

[Fulcrum29]

I specifically buy mine there. Their free range beef boerewors is excellent and consistent. A lot of other supermarket wors never tastes the same from one packet to the next for me.

It is hard to beat the original Grabouw Boerewors made by Grabouw Butchery, some supermarkets used to sell the original boerewors, the one which has the green tree with red apples logo. Here is a quick read, to quote,

http://www.marktoe.co.za/dorpe/item/227-elgin-grabouw-oogappel-van-die-weskaap

Dis nou mos wors!

Grabouw het nog ʼn aanspraak op faam. Dit is die wieg van Grabouw-boerewors. Dit wat verbruikers deesdae in supermarkte kry, is egter lankal nie meer die oorspronklike ding nie. Dít kan mens deesdae net by die Grabouw-slaghuis in die dorp se hoofstraat koop as jy wil hê dit moet naby outentiek wees.

Die wors is oorspronklik in die 1960’s vir die Grabouw-slaghuis gemaak deur Pieter Wasserman. Die geheim van die oorspronklike wors was skynbaar varke wat op akkers gevoer is. Dit het die wors ʼn unieke vetlagie gegee, maar weens die skaarsheid van sulke varkvleis word dit nie altyd in die wors gesit wat vandag by die Grabouw-slaghuis verkoop word nie.

Die naam Grabouw-boerewors kon nooit deur die oorspronklike makers van die wors of die slaghuis se eienaars geregistreer word nie, aangesien die handelsnaam ʼn pleknaam bevat het. Selfs latere pogings deur Shoprite om die naam te registreer het misluk, derhalwe verkoop allerhande handelaars deesdae wors wat as Grabouw-boerewors bekend staan. So as jy so na as moontlik aan die ware Jakob wil kom, moet jy hom by die Grabouw-slaghuis in die hoofstraat gaan haal.

Nadat die wors in die 70’s ook sy weg na Kaapstad se markte gevind het, het selfs oud President F.W. de Klerk ʼn openlike aanhanger van die wors geword. Hy het in ʼn personder-houd vertel dat hy altyd sy rantsoen Grabouw boerewors in Grabouw self gaan koop het wanneer hy oppad was na sy huis in Hermanus.

Lol, Google translation,

It's wine sausage!

Grabouw has a claim to fame. It is the cradle of Grabouw boerewors. What consumers now find in supermarkets, however, is no longer the original thing. This one can now only at the Grabouw butchery sale in the town's main street as you want it to be close to authentic.

The sausage was originally created in the 1960s for the Grabouw butchery by Peter Wasserman. The secret of the original sausage seemed pigs fed on acorns. This sausage given a unique fat layer, but will not be sold due to the scarcity of such pork is not always put into the sausage at the Grabouw slaughter house.

The name Grabouw boerewors could not be registered by the original creators of the sausage or the butchery owners as the brand a place name contains. Even subsequent attempts by Shoprite to have failed to register the name, therefore nowadays sausage called boerewors Grabouw every sale dealers. So if you as close as possible to come to the real thing, you have to go pick him up at the Grabouw butchery in the main street.

After the sausage in the 70s also found its way to Cape Town's markets, even former President FW de Klerk became an overt supporter of the sausage. He said in a press under holding says that he always had his ration Grabouw boerewors Grabouw go and buy it when heading to his home in Hermanus.

 

[Nirv]

listen go to the farm, take out your 270mm, shoot the animal, cut it to bits add your pork and spices and get the best boere wors ever

270mm might be a tad overkill.

 

[ponder]

First and last Checkers meat buy, was marinated ...

You never ever buy marinated meat anywhere, they marinade it because it's borderline off. Was looking at meat the other day and the marinaded stuff was was cheaper than the other stuff. My one mate worked in a shop and the butcher explained it all to him. Never buy marinated meat, especially poultry.