{"id":10533,"date":"2010-02-10T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=10533"},"modified":"2010-02-10T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:57:56","slug":"review-applegate-farms-breakfast-sausage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/02\/review-applegate-farms-breakfast-sausage\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Applegate Farms Breakfast Sausage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Guys I tried these ages ago and have been meaning to talk about them ever since!\u00a0 Several months ago the Applegate Farms fairy visited several blogs dropping off chicken goods.\u00a0 I wasn’t one of those blogs so I bought this box myself.<\/p>\n

Chicken breakfast sausage usually makes an appearance here for Sunday Breakfast.\u00a0 I love it!\u00a0 In an effort to expand my chicken sausage palate I am constantly looking for new brands of chicken breakfast sausage.<\/p>\n

Applegate Farms strives to bring the customer the best possible product using minimal ingredients and high quality ingredients.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They talk about happy chicken although the box does not say that the chicken is cage-free, barn-roaming, or free-range.\u00a0 No buzz words here.<\/p>\n

The ingredient list was simple and not the length of my forearm, so I bought the chicken and sage flavor.\u00a0 Now this sausage is already cooked so all I had to do was heat it up.\u00a0 Simple enough.\u00a0 I am sorry that I don’t have any pictures of the actual sausage for you.\u00a0 In my haste, I didn’t get a shot.\u00a0 I realize this is a strike against my food blogger reputation.<\/p>\n

The sausage itself looks a little disconcerting.\u00a0 If you have a cat and have to monitor the litter box then you can probably pick up quickly on what this sausage sort of looks like.<\/p>\n

It literally looked like someone took ground chicken and molded it to look like “sausage” by hand.<\/p>\n

Sausage, no matter the type, isn’t pretty and since I understand that, I didn’t let looks sway me.\u00a0 Perhaps it has a nice personality and bangin’ wit.\u00a0 I heated it up and then tasted it.<\/p>\n

The sausage had a very strange texture to it, almost sponge like.\u00a0 In all honesty, that is exactly what it reminded me of, a sponge.\u00a0 Even cutting it, it felt spongy.\u00a0 The taste wasn’t there either.\u00a0 It wasn’t horrible but it didn’t have enough spice to my liking.\u00a0 Sage is a classic breakfast sausage herb and I couldn’t taste that at all in this sausage.\u00a0 Lack of flavor combined with the texture and I couldn’t eat the sausage.<\/p>\n

When I have to push sausage away, you know there’s a problem because this chick loves sausage.\u00a0 Yes that’s actually what I said.<\/p>\n

I ended up tossing the remaining sausage and haven’t thought twice about it.\u00a0 I’ve heard great things about the Applegate Farms products and it’s possible that I would try another product in the future.\u00a0 I’m not ready to write them off completely just because I didn’t dig on the breakfast sausage.<\/p>\n

But this stuff I won’t be eating again.\u00a0 Ew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guys I tried these ages ago and have been meaning to talk about them ever since!\u00a0 Several months ago the Applegate Farms fairy visited several blogs dropping off chicken goods.\u00a0 I wasn’t one of those blogs so I bought this box myself. Chicken breakfast sausage usually makes an appearance here for Sunday Breakfast.\u00a0 I love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2JT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}