Six Hundred Pounds of Man

November 27th, 2007Blog0 comments

Today’s true American hero is this angry Texan who called into the Jimmy Dean Sausage complaint line to yell at them about reducing the portion of their sausage roll from 16 ounces to 12 ounces while still charging the same price. Here is a quote, although you should really listen to the audio on the link too:

“I don’t mind paying you more money for your 16 oz. roll of sausage, but you don’t have it anymore. You’ve got a 12 oz. roll. And you got three men that weigh over 200 pounds apiece, a woman that’s a little plump Scotch girl and a daughter who’s thirteen, and you’re gonna try and take a 12 oz. roll of sausage and a couple of dozen eggs and feed that? It ain’t gonna work.”

This guy is great. And he has a point. Why should we have to pay the same amount of money for less product? If you need to raise the price, go ahead and do it — but don’t downsize the product. Especially when you consider that a lot of recipes call for a pound of sausage. What are you going to do — buy two rolls and split them up?

But all this is beside the point. On listening to this audio I realized I had never had Jimmy Dean sausages before. Note that in the audio he says that he loves their product and is just angry over the switch. So if someone’s this passionate about these sausages, they must be good, right?

So I bought some. Jimmy Dean regular breakfast sausage in the 16 oz. roll (we still have them in 16s in blue state California) — the regular kind because the maple and sage are for northern folks to eat. Cut three patties out of the log and cooked them up.

They’re fantastic. They’re so good. The kind of food you know is really bad for you, which makes them great. They burp well. They make you feel all warm and sleepy, and they’re so tasty. I am now a fan. I too would be pissed at Jimmy Dean for downsizing my sausage.

Maybe the angry Texan thing is really just a viral ad designed to get us to buy Jimmy Dean sausages. It worked on me!