The calming effect of sausages

by Nicole Weston, Posted Nov 1st 2006 @ 9:02AM

Here's a bit of odd food-news. In Cumbria, the department of tourism has set up a dedicated telephone line, the Lakes' Escape Line, that is supposed to help people beat the winter blues when it is light out only a few hours each day. Callers will hear "cheerful sounds," including "a reading of Wordsworth's Daffodils [and] the sound of water lapping at Windermere." The sound of sizzling sausages - Cumberland sausages, of course - will also be prominently featured.

Daylight or no, you would think that people would be capable of comforting themselves with sausages at any time of year without calling a phone line to hear them sizzling in a pan. And wouldn't it be better to smell the sausages than to hear them anyway?

I got the impression that the Escape line would be a free-call, but if they charge for the sounds, residents might want to start saving up and stocking their freezers with sausages before winter sets in and they consider calling.

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Tags: british isles, comfort, comfort food, cumberland, cumberland sausages, fall, fry, frying, meat, odd, oddities, phone, sausage, sausages, sizzle, telephone, winter

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11-07-2006 @6:57PM MARIA said... Smoked sausage is the best! Homemade sausages of every kind are great from the West Side Market In Cleveland, Ohio on W.25th St. Yumm-o!, Maria in Sebastian, Fl.
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11-07-2006 @7:05PM Edvard said... There is "good" sausage and then there is "GREAT" sausage. We have the best sausage here in Cleveland, Ohio and the best of the best is at Raddell's Sausage Shop.
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11-07-2006 @7:18PM jennifer said... rock on, maria! i reside in cleveland's west side.
a woman who truly knows her sausage.

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11-07-2006 @7:23PM eli mallon said... eating "fat" has a lot of bad effects. but, don't ask me why,eating "fat" also increases the serotonin levels in the brain, which can ease depression, anxiety, etc. so, that's why eating a sausage will make you feel better. you might end up in the i.c.u. with heart problems, but you'll be smiling.
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11-07-2006 @7:45PM Foxhole Atheist said... Sausage is the second best thing on earth. The first being bacon.
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11-07-2006 @7:56PM Laura said... Sausage doesn't have to be chewey. If you split it down the middle and grill it, until the fat melts, you have an exquisite, wonderfully tasting beginning of just about any Italian meal. It is crispy on the outside, and smells fantastic.
Or, saute it in a big pot of homemade sauce for hours and it will be so tender you won't even recognize it.
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11-07-2006 @8:34PM Angela said... forget the sounds of sausage...the comments on this page are so funny that the laughing alone will lift your spirits
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11-08-2006 @2:21AM stevie said... Sausages of all kind's are good . Especially BBQ sauages with cheese and garlic

hate to say that's one of the item's my company sell's

mmmmm mmmmmmmm good
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