2 penny sausages

3 Euro cents per sausage? I shudder when I think what goes in there. But then, I feel slightly uneasy at chicken or pork for just a few Euros per kilo, too. Considering how many people have to turn a profit at that, something is seriously out of whack. But on the other hand, even in the Western World, many people can't afford meat (and other food) at higher prices. No idea how those two things can be brought together.

I fully admit to being a vegetarian, but that weirds me out seriously anyway. Unless they are just trying to play things in a cut-throat manner to lose money temporarily while weeding out competition, but still. It's amazing how people will flock to low quality things. I work in a restaurant and I think every day, I have someone order a steak that costs...maybe $10.00, with all the sides included. That comes to us pre-frozen. Yick. If you want a steak, go to a steakhouse.

I wouldn't even risk TOUCHING one of those 2 p sausages, let alone eating one! Frankly, I'd rather eat my own hair — and there's not much of it in the first place...

It's not necessarily that the sausages themselves cost 2p per piece. It might be just marketing strategy to attract customers into the store and have the shop for their other necessities there (because it's usually not worth the time and hassle to shop groceries from seperate stores).

Just like how McDonalds sells Happy Meal at thinner margin (despite them being the same burgers) and have parents accompanying their children buy regular meals at higher margins. Or like Walmart US being well known to sell pampers the cheapest (even for well known branded products) but it sells other baby products with higher margins. Or even like early bird specials during Black Friday sale in US.

Surely either some people will appreciate the value or the product/promotion will be discontinued.

I'm reminded of this episode of the UK programme "You Are What You Eat" where Gillian McKeith grossed someone out by showing her that hot dogs contained pig snouts and ears.

When I read about something like 2p sausage, all I can think about are the poor farmers/meat producers that are being undercut to sell such a thing. Most individual farmers can barely scrape together a living (making about $40K US a year if lucky) which is why the corporate farms (with their nasty practices, lack of care, etc etc) have become so dominant.

It's one thing to try and make food cheap because it's getting "more expensive". It's another thing for us westerners to start to understand the really full cost of food.

I also think it's a marketing strategy - they would be selling them at a smaller margin or even a loss - and make it back with whatever else you buy in the store. They are still the same sausages they were before the discount. But I am wary of supermarkets anyway as they elevate prices in general.

On the expensive burger side of things, I have had a HK$720 Wagyu Truffle Burger at the Peninsula Hotel. No way I would pay that much for a burger (someone else was shouting), but it was pretty darn good.

However, from long, long, ago, the only sausage available in Indonesia was the 2p ones, and i have to admit I ate it (since there were no other choices back then). Now that I've tasted very good wieners with minimum amount of additives added, I won't even touch the 2p ones... I do love good wieners and about the rising food prices, well if i can't afford good meat (or wieners) that's okay with me. I'm not vegan but I'll just eat more and more veggies (being a 80% vegan) and eat good meat only on special occasions. I think it's much better to eat a piece very good wieners once every two weeks than to eat 2p sausages everyday as a meat substitute... yuck. I hate cheap sausages.

...than the curry sauce at Sainsbury's. 4p if I didn't remember wrongly and it comes in a jar too.