{"id":93099,"date":"2025-10-21T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93099\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:46:07","slug":"bay-of-plenty-butchers-win-top-honours-at-2025-sausage-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93099\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty butchers win top honours at 2025 sausage competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">Regional butchers also made their mark:<\/p>\n<p>FreshChoice  \u014cmokoroa: Silver for Moroccan Lamb;New World Te Puke: Silver for Premium Pork Sausage;Bethlehem Butchery: Bronze for Black Pudding;Meat at the Beach, Whangamat\u0101: Bronze for Real Beef Sausage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">The Supreme Award went to Auckland\u2019s Westmere Butchery for its Beef, Parmesan and Truffle sausage, praised by judges for its exceptional flavour, balance and technical execution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">The People\u2019s Choice Award was claimed by Pokeno Bacon for  its Chicken Con Queso sausage, while Prime Meats took home the Dunninghams\u2019 Choice Award for  its Tobiko Pork and Prawn sausage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">Technical judge Brian Everton, of Cabernet Foods, said the winning sausages demonstrated the importance of precision and creativity in sausage-making. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cJust like baking a great cake, the mixing, timing, and measure of ingredients are imperative to producing an award-winning sausage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regional butchers also made their mark: FreshChoice \u014cmokoroa: Silver for Moroccan Lamb;New World Te Puke: Silver for Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,54805,1975,1561,11783,4192,4596,69454,71,16773,305,1345,7560,111,43,139,69,1118,1562,69452,69453,37865,3010,6027,80],"class_list":["post-93099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-accolades","tag-at","tag-bay","tag-brought","tag-butchers","tag-competition","tag-dunninghams","tag-from","tag-great","tag-have","tag-home","tag-honours","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-plenty","tag-sausage","tag-sizzling","tag-taurangas","tag-top","tag-win","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}