I love a good sausage (focus my friends, keep the puns at bay). And to date, despite a thorough search of Vancouver’s butchers and markets I have yet to find a sausage that comes close to rivaling the infamous, the beautiful, the succulent: The Superquinn Sausage (which, incidentally, has its own facebook fan group)
Himself and myself take it upon ourselves to try a sausage from every meat-like store we come across, including:
Whole Foods
Jacksons on 4th Avenue
Market Meats on 4th Avenue
Butchers on Granville Island
Choices Market
The problem is two-fold. The first is that they don’t assume that a sausage should be made from pork (mad Ted, mad) and the second is that they are particularly fond of adding a multitude of unknown herbs to the meat.
So here’s the deal. You need to specify that you are looking for something like an English pork banger (seems to put them on the right track) and when they reach for the least colourful looking lump of pale pork sausage, you know you’re getting close.
But not close enough. The best we have tasted is Whole Foods pork banger. Not a patch on a good Irish sausage, but not terribly offenisve to the sophisticated Irish palette at the same time. Jackson's isn't bad either and they're so damn nice in there that they would probably re-create your perfect sausage if you asked nicely.
If anyone has any insight on other purveyors of the humble pork sausage in this city, leave a comment and we’ll be over to yours for dinner. Or breakfast.
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