Have a butchers at Katie’s bangers
Thursday 25th March 2010, 8:00PM GMT.
A young butcher from South Staffordshire is proving she can cut it with them best of them after striking gold at a national competition.
Teenager Katie Lawson scooped a gold award at the National Supreme Product Championship’s at Birmingham’s NEC, and picked up three gold awards at the BPEX Roadshow held at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton on March 10.
The 17-year-old, who works for her parents at Bromley Butchers, in Wombourne, was the only girl in the two contests.
She said: “These were the first competitions I have ever entered so I was really chuffed to win gold.
“They were male dominated competitions but the judges said they were really impressed by my pork sausages.”
Katie has been helping her parents Clive and Jane at their shop in Common Road for the past 12 months. She picked up gold at the NEC for her breakfast sausage, and gold at the Reebok Stadium for her traditional pork, classic and breakfast offerings.
She added: “I try to invent new flavours as often as I can.”
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Well Done you!
“Talk about sausages – these guys Make an awesome Breakfast Sandwich as well ! We always pop in there when we clean Carpets in Wombourne – it’s a saved location in our Tom Tom”
Nigel
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Congrats Katie. Any chance that you could ship those to Stafford, Virginia? I’d gladly “trade” the phone box sitting in our government center that Staffordshire sent us as a gift for the lot in the photo. Toss in 5lbs of rashers and I’ll throw in a calling card. There is nothing better than an English breakfast.
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robert, my idea of an english breakfast was alway’s danish bacon, italian tomatoes, irish black pudding and french egg’s.
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French eggs? New one on me. I completely agree with Robert’s comments though; proper sausage and real back bacon are just a couple of the sacrifices we had to make :-)
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