I have submitted a review online once, it didn't get posted to date three days later I receive this direct -email, request to submit another. So here we go again.
I have been buying and cooking with Mangalitsa Pork for years, very familiar with it. My local butcher stopped carrying it several years back, so I was glad to find this source online and ordered a sampling of their products.
1. Ham. -Poorly cut, falling apart, dry and poor taste. Wouldn't recommend. We didn't finish it.
2. Polish Sausages. Polish sausage (Biala Kielbasa) should be ground with at least two different cuts of meat; neck and lower ham, and two different ground sizes. This one was one size and overly fat and tasteless. No spices; garlic wild marjoram, black pepper etc. Disappointed. Didn't finish.
3. Bacon. Mangalitsa is known for its fat, and breed for it. The 'Bacon' was more Lardo, or Slonina/ruckenpeck. One thin 1/8" faint layer of meet tuning through. Not good.
4. Pork chops. Overly fatty, trimmed to 1"-1.5" of thick layer of fat at perimeter. Haven't tried to cook them yet. Building up courage to do so.
In conclusion $200+ order including shipping. miserly benefits. Support your local butcher instead.
