Best of British Magazine, December 2001

SAUSAGES GO ONLINE

Ramblers and visitors to the historic conservation village of Tealby, in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds, will be delighted to hear that a highlight of local fayre, Leanings' traditional Lincolnshire sausages, can now be enjoyed anywhere in the UK thanks to a new web site; www.vikingsausages.co.uk.
Customers can order securely online and look forward to tucking into bangers for breakfast the very next day thanks to specially-chilled packaging.
Butcher Ian Cocking came up with the idea of launching his sausages online over a year ago when he noticed regular visitors to Tealby - attracted by its Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and over 20 Grade II listed buildings - were phoning him to request special deliveries from as far a field as Scotland and London.
"Tealby sausages have built up quite a reputation locally," says Ian who began work as a butcher in July 1969 when he was a 17-year-old, the same day man landed on the moon.
The shop, B. Leaning and Sons is situated at 26 Front Street Tealby right next to the Viking Way, the ancient footpath from the Humber to the Wash, so 'Viking Sausages' was an obvious choice of name for the web site. The shop itself is one of the oldest butchers in the country dating back to the 1860s when the secret sausage recipe was first developed.
"My homemade sausages are for customers who know what Lincolnshire sausages ought to be like," says Ian. "They contain no artificial ingredients and are 100% free from additives."
For further information contact Ian on 01673 838205.