Comments on: "Jimmy Dean" Sausage Makes UK Debut

By: CAtherton

CAtherton — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:31:35 +0000

Thank you very much for the recipe! I can’t wait to try it out! I am from Oklahoma (been in London almost 3 years) and man do I miss the food that grandma used to make! Sausage patties, biscuits and gravy, fried chicken, pork chops with gravy with greens, bacon and drop biscuits, mexican food…haha I could go on and on! Any more recipes you have duplicated would be great! I still like the idea of an American breakfast club or potluck in general! Do you know of anything like that here in the UK? Thanks again and God Bless!

By: Sandra Jones

Sandra Jones — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:50:32 +0000

What a find this blog is, been here in the UK 15 years now and Jimmy Dean sausage is something we really miss. My daughters were 11 and 12 when we moved here, so they missed a number of things, particularly sweets. But my younger daughter has found Tesco and Asda now selling lots of American stuff. She is very fond of Cheetos at Asda (in the Polish section no less) and also Hersheys, Betty Crocker Cake mix in Tesco, and we have recently found some American items such as Red Vines at Cost-Co in Cardiff. Also in Cardiff there is a Deli in the Royal Arcade called Wally’s that does a fair number of American Products including Cereals and Jams, and also the Americandy store in older part of the St Davids Centre often has A & W Rootbeer, Mellow Yellow and other such drinks…and Life Savers!

If anyone is interested, I work for Virgin Atlantic and go home once or twice a year to California, and am more than happy to bring stuff back for my fellow expats!

Let me know!
Sandra Jones

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:15:41 +0000

Thank you to Loz and Rich for these two site.
We will be back is South MS for 3 months from the 20th of November. It is not just the Southern food we miss, but church as well. One of these days our PR visas will come through (been waiting 5 years now) We got word a year ago that they have been aproved, just none available. But in the mean time our friends in MS know to have Jimmy Dean Sausage, grits and eggs in our fridge for our first breakfast.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:29:31 +0000

In response to Loz’s comment, http://www.americangoodies.co.uk are a similar website and they sell American Food and Drink in the UK too. I always get my A1 Steak Sauce there, there’s just nothing like it in the UK!

By: Barb

Barb — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:50:16 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you…been living in Danmark last 6 years and there is nothing here even close to good ole southern sausage, can’t wait to make this, think i’ll add some maple syrup to it, yum…pancakes and sausages and I’ll prob have to ask butcher for some ground pork fat as the ground pork here is very lean here too. Again, thank you!

By: Loz

Loz — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:06:49 +0000

Just found your Jimmy Dean recipe here and will be trying it soon (mostly to make a fatty for the smoker to be honest) but it occurred to me to mention http://www.americansweets.co.uk to you. They import a whole bunch of stuff from the US and sell it through their site. Not just candy as the name suggests but grocery items too. Now I won’t lie, there is a definite premium to pay (best part of £10 for a box of Froot Loops) but if they have what you really want then hey, why not!

By: bill

bill — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:37:05 +0000

Grits
Google grits good eats by Alton Brown he explains what you need to make them from scratch.

Happy eating
Bill V

By: Father Bill Haymaker

Father Bill Haymaker — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:43:30 +0000

Greetings Bill from another Bill! Please don’t close your blog. Just sit on it for a bit. I’d like to write about journeys. Sitting here on the coast of the UK, missing Atlanta and everything southern – grits, Jimmy Dean, fried chicken, and southern hospitality!! It has been too many years! I wish you God’s peace! Fr. Bill+ http://www.ProjectNewLife.org

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:17:31 +0000

First of all Happy New Year to you and yours

I thank you for this recipe for Jimmy Dean Sausage. We are Scottish but waiting to immigrate to South MS. We have been going there every year for the past 9 years, so miss Southern cooking a great deal (as well as our friends and church there) when forced to return to Scotland.

We bring “emergency rations” over with us every time we come back. (liquid smoke, Tony Cachere’s, grits, Folger’s coffee, Frank’s hot sauce). Am going to try this recipe but will substitute Tony Cachere’s original seasoning for the MSG. I make traditional scones with buttermilk (omitting the sugar) here and they turn out not to bad.

P.S. do not forget the redeye gravy.

God Bless

By: iwuvwoo

iwuvwoo — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:37:32 +0000

Hey Bill – Woke up with a craving for these sausage patties so I’m going to try this recipe! I’m Canadian and, although I don’t recall being able to get Jimmy Dean Sausages there, i do know the feeling of having to recreate something that you can’t get in the UK! I’ve also been told that Iceland do a similar cumberland sausage patty. My issue with using minced pork from the shop is the texture might not be the same. I think if you were to use minced rib or belly steaks that might do the trick. Butchers in Chinatown would have those sorts of cuts as wontons require fattier cuts. Also, any Chinese shop will sell msg by the bucket load! Can’t wait to try this. Thanks.