Sausage has been with us since man learnt how to preserve food. The first recorded mention of sausage is sometime during the 8th century BC – it proved a very popular food amongst the ancient Greeks and Romans alike.

Today sausages come in all shapes and sizes and are enjoyed world-wide with each country making it their own in some way. The Brits are known for their breakfast pork sausages, the Americans for their frankfurters, but it’s really the Germans that have turned sausage into a food group all its own. According to What’s for Lunch, Honey?, a world-renowned food blogger, Germany boasts over 1500 different types of sausages from blutwurst and bockwurst to knackwurst and currywurst – their bratwurst alone comes in 40 different varieties.

Moving south, we too have taken sausage to iconic status – our boerewors enjoys near cult-like devotion with family recipes guarded better than state secrets and large retailers sponsoring an annual Championship Boerewors challenge. As a company that embraces South African culture and believes in delivering on their core values of quality, service and delivery; N1 Restaurant Suppliers offer a wide variety of the best quality sausages, from their Halaal beef chipolatas, ostrich sausages and foot long viennas to their non-Halaal pork chipolatas, boerewors and chorizo sausages.

Crucial to the mix, when creating a sought after sausage, is both the casing and the spices used. For their Halaal sausages, N1 use an artificial casing made from a plant extract; for their non-Halaal thick sausages like boerewors, they use a hog casing; and for their thinner sausages and chipolatas they use a lamb casing. A combination of spices including the likes of coriander, ground cloves and nutmeg, amongst others, is what gives each sausage its distinctive flavour – these are masterfully blended and prepared exclusively for N1 by Freddy Hirsch, Exim and Deli Spices.

N1 strive to remain at the forefront of product development by constantly testing new sausages to see how flavours and colour profiles might be enhanced; and provided the volume ordered warrants it, they will manufacture bespoke sausages according to a client’s specifications. So if you are looking for a wholesale meat supplier that delivers in all possible ways, be sure to give N1 a call or send them a mail – they’d love to hear from you.