Kabanosi

When I was young, it was easy to buy good quality kabanosi from the continental groceries then scattered around London, often run by refugees from Central Europe. There was a good one in Streatham High Road, next to a large cinema as I recall.

Now those groceries have mostly vanished and we have to make do with either the supermarkets or one of the small Polish groceries which have sprung up in the wake of a more recent wave of Polish immigration. The kabanosi from the latter are sometimes good, sometimes bad - with some good ones noticed at reference 1. While the former are usually reliable, if not particularly good.

The ones illustrated left came from Waitrose, £2.69 for five of them, not the brand they used to offer, but they did claim to be made of pig (rather than the chicken one gets occasionally) and not to involve cheese (which one also gets occasionally). But once home, I realised I had not read the labels very carefully and they turned out to be Austrian rather than Polish. Dry and chewy, with rather a sharp flavour, rather than soft and pink with a touch of caraway. In fact, not very good at all, not 'Das Beste' at all. A brand which I shall endeavour to avoid in the future.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/not-cheese.html.