Has 'The Bloke' given up on the sausage roll hunt, I hear you say! The answer is NO, I have been constantly sampling sausage rolls from Sydney to Port Macquarie. Newcastle had several offerings but none worthy of a rating. In Port Stephens I was forced to throw away 2 sausage rolls after just one bite. The twin towns of Forster and Tuncurry both provided opportunities but like Port Stephens they were not worth wasting calories on so they soon found the bottom of a bin. I had high hopes for Laurieton, a provincial town with multiple bakeries. Alas no idea, the concept of a tasty sausage roll evaded all. Now that we are in Port Macquarie, a city of almost 50,000 people, was I too optimistic to believe that one of the several bakeries could put together meat and pastry in a tasty and interesting combination. Yes, I was because again, the simple concept of the sausage roll got lost somewhere between including carrot in the meat to pouring in a bucket of salt and maybe flour to create some kind of 'paste'.
Our new prime minister wants an agile, clever and innovative nation, but the majority of our bakeries cannot even make a sausage roll! What is Australia's future if the simplest of tasks cannot be achieved? I am not yet in despair, however, if I do not find a good sausage roll soon am going to write to the before mention national leader and get him on the case. This is IMPORTANT!!!!!
A Sausage Circle Roll created by Gayle who hadn't previously known about the Bloke's quest.
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