25 June 2024
While in Broome, Nicole and I walked the 1.5km to the General Store. We’d been there the previous week to buy a lemon (to have with the fish we caught on our fishing charter) and noticed they had homemade sausage rolls. Mental note made.
I had thought we were walking just to the cafe at the caravan park we were staying at that also had homemade sausage rolls, and so stayed in thongs with no hat and no sunnies. I thought it was strange Nicole was taking both, then realised too late.
So, we arrived and ordered said sausage rolls. The ambience was not great, but what could we expect.
We sat down to eat them, and I took a bite. Straight out of the gate, the taste was poor (very strange and hard to explain) and the texture even worse (very crumbly). Not a good start.
Then I took a look at the inside and saw … pink! Not the colour you really want to see in a pork food product. This was heading south quickly.
I said to Nicole, “I can’t eat this, we have our Horizontal Falls tour tomorrow and I don’t want to be sick for it.”
“It tastes fine to me” was Nicole’s reply. So, I thought what the hell and finished mine. ‘In for a penny …’ and all that.
Then I noticed that Nicole had finished barely a quarter of hers and pushed the plate with the remaining three quarters into the middle of the table. What the …?!
Needless to say, a sausage roll isn’t going to score well when, before you finish it, you’re googling how long it takes for food poisoning symptoms to present.
A new low score, and mental scars to boot. And no, I didn’t end up getting food poisoning.
Current scorecard
- Derby (8.6/10)
- Roma (8.5/10)
- Darwin — Standard (8.3/10)
- Darwin — Chilli Beef (7.4/10)
- Humpty Doo (7.3/10)*
- Pine Creek (7.3/10)*
- Katherine (7.2/10)
- Cloncurry (7.0/10)
- Winton (6.5/10)
- Wyndham (6.4/10)
- Broome (2.5/10)
*Note that where scores are tied, the sausage roll tasted first is placed highest in the list.
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