Authorities in Australia are investigating a man who used a drone to pick up a sausage from a barbecue and deliver it to a friend in a hot tub.
The man faces a £5,600 [$AUS9,000] fine after he posted a video on YouTube which showed him sitting at home and piloting a drone which travelled over a busy motorway before descending to collect the cooked sausage from a barbecue – or “sausage sizzle” – at a hardware store in Melbourne. The video has since been removed. Read more
Closing the productivity gap between English and EU pig producers and a new focus on pork as a midweek meal solution are two underpinning themes of AHDB Pork’s three year strategy published for consultation today (1 December). Read more
Bacon is one food that is remarkably and also obscurely healthy. The British morning meal staple-bacon as well as eggs. It’s also part of a diet regimen of the world’s earliest individual, Susannah Mushatt Jones 116 years old, who eats bacon and also eggs everyday. Read more
Smoky cheese and bacon combine with the natural sweetness of caramelised onions in this hot, crusty party bread that is meant for sharing. Read more
New Defra figures have shown a dramatic fall in farm incomes for the third consecutive year.
The National Farmers Union says this has had a huge impact on farming businesses with some sectors, such as dairy and pigs, seeing their incomes halved.
It believes the main reasons for the dramatic falls are lower commodity prices and market volatility including a strengthening pound in 2015. Read more
British bangers are losing their bang because modern recipes are leaner and healthier, scientists have found.
A study found that today’s sausages made much less of a sizzle when being cooked because they generally contain less fat and water than traditional recipes from the past.
Food researchers even found that each type of sausage could be identified by its own unique sizzle in the pan. Read more
AHDB is looking for a pig producer and an independent member to join the board of AHDB Pork.
The successful applicants will become members in April next year. The producer must be a levy payer, to ensure the views of producers are heard, and will help to steer the strategy for the sector. Read more
Supply discipline is going to be key to the performance of the global pork market next year, warns today’s quarterly pork report from Rabobank.
“Prospects for 2017 are weak, with global trade expected to stabilise and with all the main producers in expansion mode,” said Rabobank’s animal protein analyst, Albert Vernooij, adding that this will make supply discipline key to the industry securing positive prospects next year. Read more
The full English breakfast can be considered as a British tradition that holds its source from the early 1300s. Up to now the traditional English breakfast is highly popular and you can find such a breakfast wherever British people have settled, as they take their tradition with them wherever they go. The British breakfast started from the gentry and it developed with the Victorians, who standardised the food and refined the tradition to create a truly national dish. Read more
A security alert was sparked at Manchester airport when a pork pie-loving pensioner tried to carry his tasty treat through the scanners. Read more
