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Local Manufacturing Award

November 3, 2011 – 3:33 am

We were very pleased to be announced as the winner of the Manufacturing category in the 2011/12 Powercor Australia Campaspe Murray Business Awards at a magnificent event held at Rich River Golf Club in Moama. The judges were impressed with our green approach to manufacturing and also our growth over our first three years. We [...]

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Haggis declared Winner

August 2, 2011 – 3:15 am

We are very pleased to announce that our humble haggis has been declared the winner of the Artisan Category of the ABC delicious Produce Awards 2011. We are very proud to have been awarded such a prestigious title at a wonderful event hosted at Guillaume de Bennelong in Sydney Opera House on 25 July 2011.

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‘Poms behind Pacdon Park’ in the Weekly Times

July 6, 2010 – 11:26 pm

July 7, 2010 THREE young Brits have brought the authentic tastes of their homeland to Australian tables, writes SARAH HUDSON “For a couple of naive Pommy blokes in the middle of nowhere we’ve certainly made waves,” says James Arrowsmith, with a broad Lancashire accent. “When I think back to when we first started I think, [...]

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“Sausages & More” at Tony Tan’s Cooking Class

April 6, 2010 – 12:13 am

On the 31st July we will be presenting ‘Sausages and More’ at Tony Tan’s Cooking class, rated 17th best cooking class on the planet by the Financial Times (UK). If you want to learn about what we at Pacdon Park do when making our sort after range, look at booking online at www.tonytan.com.au/ Certainly a [...]

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Sausages – food of the rich and famous

September 16, 2009 – 6:36 am

Here’s some celebrity sausage quotes… − Delia Smith: Braised sausages seem to have turned up many times in my books over the years… I love them so much [Delia’s How To Cook: Book One] − Ross Burden: You can’t beat the great British banger − Nigel Slater: There are few things as warming as a [...]

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What you don’t know about Lard

September 7, 2009 – 4:57 am

Australian culture is so fat-phobic we demonize some of the very foods that are best for us, and among those foods is homemade lard. The supermarket bought stuff isn’t worth bothering with, it’s hydrogenated to make it shelf-stable and bleached to make it appear whiter. What I’m talking about is lard from the fat of [...]

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Pacdon makes the news

August 27, 2009 – 8:37 am

Pork company barrels its rivals By Ivy Wise August 24 2009 Riverine Herald A Bunnaloo gourmet pork smallgoods business has beaten 130 businesses throughout NSW to win the Small Business Marketing Makeover competition. Pacdon of Bunnaloo was one of two businesses who are members of the Small Business Network to receive $15,000 to go towards [...]

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What do our customers think of our Pork Pie?

August 18, 2009 – 6:54 am

Below are some spontaneous emails we have received from our ever growing fan club! “Just wanted to let you know I tried your pies on the weekend, bought them from the Farmers Market in Echuca – they were magnificent!!! I’m not a big fan of pork products, but I have to say they really were [...]

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The world of Black Puddings

August 12, 2009 – 7:12 am

Black pudding is one of those foods that polarises opinions. Whether you love it with a passion or the very notion of it makes you feel queasy, it’s not a dish that fosters ambivalence. The French, however, are in little doubt. In France, black pudding is known as boudin noir (literally ‘black roll’) and the [...]

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After all that, it turns out Haggis is English after all…

August 4, 2009 – 1:55 am

A haggis recipe was published in an English book almost two hundred years before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, a historian has claimed… http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8180791.stm

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