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I’ve not posted for almost a month. Not because I’ve given up. More because at the moment I am wrestling with the final year of my Honours degree in Television and Media at the University of Huddersfield.

So that’s kind of taking up the majority of my time for the next two months.

All this hard academic work has given me a craving. No, not for jam or sweets or beer. A craving for something a lot more substantial.

A plate of grilled meat.

Yes. A plate of grilled meat. Not just any plate of grilled meat. A mixed selection of grilled meat.

  A MIXED GRILL

The hunt for a good mixed grill is on. I’ve toured many a place over the past few years, dining here and there. Checking this menu and that menu. The constant being, observing the selection on offer at an establishment for their mixed grill.

Possibly the best mixed grill I’ve ever eaten has been at the New Wheatsheaf in Altofts near Wakefield. A massive plate of glorious grilled meat including: Steak, sausage, liver, kidney, lamb chops and gammon steak topped with a fried egg and served with onion rings, mushrooms and grilled tomatoes. Of course you get chips with that if you want AND a visit to the veg section at the carvery to boot. If that wasn’t enough to cause you to put on 10 inches, the meal comes with a side salad. Just so you feel like you’re having something healthy with all that meat. All for the bargain price of……wait for it……..£15.80

The only other pretender to the throne was at the Three Horseshoes in Brierley near Barnsley. However they have changed hands and chef since then and I have no idea if they still do the mixed grills.

Of course I vaguely remember The Plough at Eathorpe having a mixed grill on their evening menu too but as I was there for lunch and not in a mixed grill mood, I’m afraid I’ll just have to imagine.

So yes. Hard academic study wanting a meal to harden the arteries. As I’d say to my mum, if I was to have a mixed grill every evening then yes…be concerned. But the odd one now and then shouldn’t cause too much lasting damage.

Anyway. to me. A mixed grill should contain:

1. Sausage
2. Steak
3. Chops
4. Liver
5. Other meats
6. Onion rings

Bonus points will be given for black pudding, the size of the chips and how local the sausages are. (When I finally get round to finishing my academic work (which should be at the end of April, I’ll probably do a special week on sausages).

So come on. Tell me about your mixed grills. Are you an eatery owner? Do you do mixed grills? Would you like the Mucky Badger seal of approval? Well I have to know where it is first.

The hunt is on.