TWO firms in the Bradford district have collaborated to create a new sausage.
The Baildon Banger is a brand-new sausage that was launched on Friday and is the brainchild of a deli and butchers.
It was created together by Pickles Delicatessen, in Northgate, Baildon and Binns of Saltaire, in Bingley Road.
Rob Dalewicz, 53, who runs Pickles, said: “We’re launching lots of stuff now, coming out of lockdown.
“All our meat comes from quality ingredients – quality not quantity.
“We wanted to give our customers something different.
“We’ve done our sampling, we’ve done our production, we’ve done our messing around.”
Kieran Booth, manager at Binns, is excited for the launch of the Baildon Banger.
He said: “It’s good having two local businesses doing something positive together, making a unique sausage, which is good for their point of view.”
A handful of customers have already tried the new banger and so far the response has been positive, according to Mr Dalewicz.
The Baildon Banger is longer than a regular sausage, but Mr Dalewicz reiterated the new concoction’s “flavoursome” nature is its real beauty.
He said: “It’s taking care, not any old ingredients, a proper recipe with herbs and spices.”
Mr Booth said: “It’s a special blend of ingredients that Rob asked us to put into sausages, with a herby approach.
“It’s quite a bit longer than a normal sausage as well.”
Mr Dalewicz bought Pickles just before the Covid-19 pandemic led to a number of lockdowns, which forced the businessman to close the shop not long after.
He said: “This is why we’re looking at new things, what a lot of people don’t understand is how devastating that lockdown was in terms of staffing and in terms of production.
“It doesn’t finish after lockdown, because everybody’s changed.”
The 53-year-old wanted to give people a reason to come out for a full English breakfast and decided a new sausage was one way of achieving this.
Mr Dalewicz said: “My experience of having them was you always wanted a quality sausage.”
Meanwhile, Mr Booth believes two companies within the community collaborating can only be a good thing.
He said: “It’s great, you support each other, people like everything local, transport is close.
“It’s a smaller carbon footprint, it’s a lot better for the environment working closer together rather than abroad.”
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