Butcher’s Pickings up yet another title! - VIDEO

Waiting for Video...

Published on 12/04/2012 08:00

A SOUTH Tyneside butcher has added to his amazing awards haul – by branching out into burgers.

Paul Clark, who runs George H Pickings in Front Street, East Boldon, is best known for his prize-winning sausages, but decided to try something different for his latest competition entry.

He travelled to Birmingham for the National Federation of Meat and Food Traders (NFMFT) gala event at the NEC.

The contest had more than 300 entries from independent butchers across the UK, but the 45-year-old came out on top in the Speciality Burger category, for his pork and apple creation.

He said: “I’m always trying new things, so thought I’d try my hand at a burger.

“I wanted to keep a classic sausage flavour combination and see how it tasted in a burger.

“I was pleased with how they came out and, thankfully, so were the judges.”

He added: “Anything and everything can inspire a new flavour.

“As this one has been a success, I think I’ll give some others a go.

“It doesn’t mean I’m abandoning my sausages, though. I’ll keep working just as hard on them.”

Mr Clark also won four gold awards at the event for his sausages and was delighted with his latest wins.

He said: “It’s great to get more awards.

“These events give me a chance to see what the competition is like from across the country, and it’s always exciting to find out that I’m up there with the best around.

“Most of us get on fine and have got to know each other from these things.

“We’re always picking up ideas and I’m going to keep on coming up with new ones.

“It’s the only way to stay at the top of the game.

“The awards can keep coming but, of course, it’s more important that my customers are as happy as the judges.”

Twitter: @ShieldsGazCrime

Community

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Butcher’s Pickings up yet another title! - VIDEO

Top stories

Community