2 penny sausages

Asda, a UK supermarket chain (and a wholly owned division of Wal-Mart [1]), spurred no doubt by recent news about scarily rising food prices, has launched an attention grabbing product: the 2 p sausage [2]. You do have to buy it in packs of 8, but a pack is still just 16p. In US cents that’s about 4 cents a sausage.

The sausages have been reduced, from 56p per package of 8. Even at that price the thought of what might go into such a cheap sausage makes me shudder. At 2p per sausage, it makes my stomach take a queasy flop.

Surely there are better ways of eating frugally than stuffing yourself with lumps of dubious chopped up mystery meat? (I love a really good sausage, but bad sausages are a very different matter.) If you’re in the UK, have you tried the 2p sausages, or would you consider trying them?

Elsewhere in the world, you can have a $175 burger [3] topped with gold leaf and foie gras, which may not even be that good. Something’s off kilter somewhere.