{"id":3797,"date":"2014-03-09T13:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2014-03-10T08:29:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T08:29:01","slug":"sausages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3797","title":{"rendered":"Sausages!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/03\/sausages.jpg\" alt=\"pack shot of sausages\" width=\"190\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3798\" \/>Today for breakfast I indulged in some sausages; not just any sausages, but Sainbury&#8217;s <em>Outdoor Bred<\/em> Pork Sausages. They were delicious and disappeared off the plate in double-quick time.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was one thing that stuck in my throat: the product name.<\/p>\n<p>Can inanimate objects &#8211; even ones made of once living matter &#8211; breed? <\/p>\n<p>If so, I should congratulate Sainbury&#8217;s on this fine achievement in the field of al fresco coitus? If not,  should I condemn their marketing department for coming up with an idiotic product name that&#8217;s a complete physical impossibility?<\/p>\n<p>Digging further into this term, it is apparent that Sainsbury&#8217;s are not the only sinners here, as a quick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=%22outdoor+bred%22+sausages&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Z2UcU-e_DZCO7QaK84CYBg&amp;ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613\">image search for &#8220;outdoor bred&#8221; sausages<\/a> will reveal.  Moreover, if I had my way, Tesco, Waitrose, Rankin, Morrison&#8217;s, Marks &amp; Spencer, Asda and many more suppliers should all be standing in the corner of the room with Sainsbury&#8217;s trying on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunce%27s_hat\">dunce&#8217;s hat<\/a> for size. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, my suggesting that all these corporate grocers are a bunch of illiterates is perhaps being a bit hasty and an over-reaction. Time for some final research.<\/p>\n<p>Consulting the Good Housekeeping Institute&#8217;s site, I find that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk\/food\/the-good-housekeeping-guide-to-meat-labelling-4#slide-4\">outdoor bred actually has a specific meaning<\/a> in food labelling terms, as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As with Outdoor Reared, this tends to apply to pork and means the pigs are born outside. However, after a few weeks they\u2019re brought inside for fattening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, outdoor bred is a proper food labelling term, although I do wish people would think more clearly about the connotations of naming products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today for breakfast I indulged in some sausages; not just any sausages, but Sainbury&#8217;s Outdoor Bred Pork Sausages. They were delicious and disappeared off the plate in double-quick time. However, there was one thing that stuck in my throat: the product name. Can inanimate objects &#8211; even ones made of once living matter &#8211; breed? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[16,25,21,22],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","tag-english-usage","tag-food","tag-jargon","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}