Yeah, Jimmy. They are fairly lean and quite tasty. Just had a little pile of thin slices along with some White Cheddar Cheeze-Itz.
Yeah Joe. Nice consistency....little fat, and the peppercorns is what makes it.
When we made it...my grandparents would have the sweet paprika shipped from Catanzaro italia special Just to make the sausage and dried sopressata to color it. I used to watch while they would send shoes and American stuff to the Brother over there, and they would sew the outside of the box with heavy thread and old sheets or t shirts.
I asked gram, why do you have to sew material over the box?
She said, There is Americam Money in the shoes, and that way, the shipper and Italian customs won't bother to tear open the box through the cloth. If they did, my Grandfathers Brother would know it was tampered with.
Sounded like a screwy idea to me. Haaaaaaaa
I gotta get around to making sausage, but Tina has been buying it from Catalano Importing and it is great sausage Calabrese style, and hot!
Mangia