Derby Sausages!

[Michael Alexander]

Oranjemunders, I am a big man! I enjoy my beer and food, but hell! in the back of my mind I cannot stop thinking about those fire's outside the Tote at the Mule Derby where the people were braaing those big white (Bratwurst?) sausages...... Slurp! Who made those things? Anyone got a recipe?

Munch! Munch!  ;D

[Ann Gander (nee Greenway)]

Our big annual treat at the Mule Derby was Candy Floss.

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

I can only remember those horrible pink sausages that they used to sell - no wonder I don't eat meat anymore!

[SandyB]

I  seem  to recall  Mr Leube ( remember  Peter Leube ? ) the Butcher   making them at one  stage .. the abbatoir had a  sausage  and salami  making   and  smoking  facility   as  did  the  Butchershop  have  sausage  making facility  as  well , I  recall  Mr Huntley  giving  us  all  a  freshly  made  salami  when  we  did our  orientation tour  at the  start  of  our  apprenticeships ...  The  Butcher  shop  ..Rene Head  worked there .. at the back they  ahd  a  foot  driven  sharpening wheel ...  We  did  have  the luxury  of  properly qualified  butchers   and  fleischmeisters   in  that  town  so  that should  help answer  the  question  of  the delicious Bratwurst ...

[Michael Alexander]

There was also a George Hitala or something that made the Sausages in the 70's I think, and then there was Gordon the Butcher  in the 70'80's , affectionately known as POPS,

man there were stories!

;)

[bobbysmith]

memories mike,i rember the mule/donkey derby,the red sausages,viennas as i rember and the sossaties,meat on a stick,lekker man,ive just dicovered a south african shop in the uk called sussmans,you can order over the net and get next day delivery any where in the uk,boere worse,mrs balls chutney,milo,log bars,hansa beer the works.as they say,you can take the man out of oranjemund but you can never take oranjemund out of the man,

[Michael Alexander]

Hansa Beer was a good one, then they stopped making it for a few years as the SAB had the rights to it, even though it's a Swakopmund beer, it was relaunched 2 years back, but just ain't the same. Here in the shop , Windhoek Draught in a can 440mml, is the most popular...

Slurp! Guess what I'm doing this afternoon?

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[SandyB]

Gordon .. Aspeling I  think the  surname  was .. started  to  work  in  the power  station  , lost his hair  in clumps  cos  of the  low  fequency  noise stress  . so  then they  gave  him  a  job  in  the abbatoir or  butchery  .. hair  grew  back  thicker and more  luxuriant  .. must  have been  all  the meat  ...

[Michael Alexander]

hehehe, I think pops lost tuffs of hair due to the "Bells" , anyhow they battled to get him outta town when he reached retirement age, he managed to avoid security and township for just over 6 months until they cornered him down at the beach on afternoon.

The old butcher never wanted to leave here, he just wanted to retire here, but in those days you were'nt allowed to. Yes it was indeed Aspeling

Anyhow  he passed away about 4 or 5 years back in retirement in Cape Town....

He had one helluva foul mouth on him and would put that old Father priest in FAther TEd to shame....

He would often appear in my folks lounge at 2 in the morning, just sitting their sipping his Bells and staring at the TV...
One things for sure, the day before I was due to return to boarding school , as clockwork , Pops would come to our house and bring the biggest pieces of biltong you had ever seen, for me to take to boarding school......

Go Pops.   ! :'(

[SandyB]

Yes  Gordon ..   quite a  character ... I  was  working  in Caseys  at  the time the hair  started  to  fall out  .. he  was  pretty  new in  the  town  then ... As  for  the  noise stress  yes  it  got  to some people  .. I  remember   being  very Jangled   and  jittery  at  the end of  a day working  in  the  power station and that  was  even  wearing  the compulsory ear  muffs   . some  could  take it some couldnt ...

[Michael Alexander]

Gordon , was known as "Cockcroach" during the hair loss years. Sandy you must have worked with Wullie Prinsloo and Frankie Quirk?

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[Michael Alexander]

ANd here is a pic of the Mule Derby in April 1975, more to follow on the next website update....

[SandyB]

Ah! yes Frankie .. fond of him, a nice  guy .. they  stayed  a couple  of  houses up  from  us  in  2nd Ave .. Willie Prinsloo , tall  greying  hair  , kind of  quiet  guy .. stayed  in   8th Ave  is my  memory ..  reading  about  your problems  with  power  cuts ... We  never  to  my  best  recollection  had  any  power  cuts of  consequence   when  we  had  the power  station ...  most  eerie  thing  was the  day  they switched  off   and  went onto  Eskom  ,, 78/79 ...  it  was  as  if  the town lost  a pulse  .. that  low frequency   sound  travelled  far and  wide ...   and  when  it  was  not  there  suddenly   we had  untill we  got  used to  it  this  silence  and  a  feeliong  that " something  was missing "  knid  of  like  when  some  city  folk go  out  into  the country  .. they  find  the nights  disturbingly  quiet ..........

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

One of the best thing about Oranjemund - the nights are so quiet, only the jackals crying in the distance! We find it quite difficult to get used to Cape Towns sirens and traffic at night when we are there!

[Clive Symes]

Micky Reshcke, used to be one of the people that cooked those derby sausages, its years since I had one but I do remember them well.
Mule derby time also used to be great for knocking down a few coconuts. The biggest one if I remember correctly was filled with "Lead" cause it never seemed to break or move and every one aimed for it.
Jim Ockwell and Roy Fields used to take turns running the coconut stall.