- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Its image that sells. There was a company here (before he was bought out/sold up) used to sell Blackie meat into high end restaurants in London... they were born and ran on a hill farm (of noted fame being featured in an episode of the Hairy Bikers where they went on the hunt for a Haggis ) - and that's the image that was sold, mature lambs slow grown and flavoured on heather hill and grass... these posh restaurant clientele couldn't get enough of it.
He conveniently forgot to tell the rest of the story how the lambs were brought 30miles down the valley onto lowland/dairy ground at weaning and ran all winter on new lays and fed concs
He conveniently forgot to tell the rest of the story how the lambs were brought 30miles down the valley onto lowland/dairy ground at weaning and ran all winter on new lays and fed concs