Does your local butcher make the best sausages in Norfolk? Are they up for the ultimate taste-test challenge? Then encourage them to take part in the @FoodFestNorfolk #NFDF2014 Battle of the Bangers and prove it.
The Battle of the Bangers is one of the highlights of the Norfolk Food and Drink Festival. Every year it draws a huge crowd of hungry people to try the finest sausages from the best butchers across the county. Over 4,000 people joined in the fun in 2013 and voted for the People’s Choice of Best Banger – so it’s a great opportunity for butchers to win public prestige and new customers.
Sausage crown up for grabs
Norwich’s famous family butchers Archer’s, who won last year, will be on the judging panel for the Sponsors’ Choice category so won’t be competing this year. This means the field is now wide open to new entrants to prove their sausages have the best sizzle. But they’ll need your hearty support to succeed when the heat is on.
This year’s Battle of the Bangers will take place on Saturday 6 September – make a note in your diary now – outside The Forum and will mark the culmination of Norwich Restaurant Week. There will also be other #NFDF2014 attractions going on at the same time, so there are sure to be masses of people ready to try and to buy some tasty tea-time treats, whether plain pork, spicy beef or perhaps even herby chicken (now there’s an idea).
FREE Entry
The event is free to enter – for both contestants and consumers – and the organisers offer ample support to each butcher who takes part, to help them make the most of this special day. All the butchers have to do is set up their own stand, fire up the BBQ and start cooking. They will obviously have to bring along plenty of sausages too – both as samples and to sell because previous entrants have apparently done a roaring trade on the day (as well as in after-sales).
They’ll need to hurry – just five places left
Places are limited to just 10 entrants, so with five stands already booked your butcher will need to act fast to guarantee their place. For full details and a booking form they should send an email to anna@nfdf.co.uk today! We hope your favourite butcher decides to take part and wish all that do the best of luck – the competition is hot but the chance to be named People’s Choice is worth it.
One of my local favourites – hoping they will take part.
About this post
This is one in a series of posts about the Norfolk Food and Drink Festival 2014 and other local food and drink related stories (see my earlier post about being an #NFDF2014 Champion) – I hope you enjoy them. If you have any questions or comments, or ideas for future posts, please feel free to post them under this blog or tweet them to me. I will do my best to reply.
Thank you for reading – best wishes – Huw.
Huw Sayer 