Minty
One of the lovely things about TV celebrity is I get invited to tastings
of new products, simply by ringing up and asking. That's how I discovered
the venison chipolatas made by The Lifestyle Deer House of Woodbridge.
Woodbridge is a charming market town in Suffolk, although, as I discovered
to my cost, there's a reason why its hairdressers are so cheap!
Two local ladies, Caroline and Penny, make all their own chipolatas,
sourcing deer from their nearby surrounding environment. I'd always
found venison tough and old and dry. Their lifestyle venison couldn't
be more different. As Simon says, it really is like eating Bambi
not its mother.
They're £16.80 a kilo, though I only ate less than three hundred
grams of them personally. You can never tell from eating one. There
was a song, I can't remember who it was by, but the gist of it was,
do it to me one more time, once is never enough. That's what I'm
like with new tastes. I just need to keep on tasting them, on and
on, forcing myself to have one more till I really 'get the point'.
