These poor little sausages start off with a couple strikes against them – I pretty much don’t like brown and serve type breakfast sausages. Including fast food kinds. But I thought I would give these two national brand names a shot when I saw them at the Dollar Tree.
Jimmy Dean is an established sausage maker, started by the late music/film personality of the same name. The company grew bigly and was acquired by Sara Lee (now Hillshire Farms, now Tyson).
The package (for a buck) comes with six links, you’ll find them in the frozen food coolers, if your Dollar Tree has them.
Ingredients are pork and mechanically separated turkey (another kiss of death for me, anything that has mechanically separated poultry as an ingredient).
I popped these into a skillet with my other test subjects, Banquet brand Original Breakfast Sausage Patties, and cooked them awhile. This type of 
product IS pre-cooked in the package, so there are microwave instructions as well, for a quick heat and eat.
Banquet is part of the multinational food conglomerate ConAgra. The company dates back more than 60 years, having started by introducing frozen meat pot pies.
What did I think? Flavor is OK, but one of the things I don’t like about these types of products is the texture. Not enough resistance in a bite, like ‘real’ sausage.
Result, I wouldn’t be likely to buy it again, unless I had company that requested it.
The Jimmy Dean sausages were/are made by Peacock Foods, in Itasca, IL, a distant superb of Chicago. The Banquet ones are a product of Abbyland Foods in Wisconsin. Abbyland makes products for a number of brands and retailers. They are a popular source for the discount grocer Aldi.
Banquet Patties, Jimmy Dean Links
Abbyland Foods
Peacock Foods
Dollar Tree Breakfast Sausage Review
Dollar Tree Breakfast Sausage Review