Sausage throwdown

Tonight's food battle:

Bob Evans vs. Johnsonville.

Who makes the best breakfast links ?

First, I had to cook them:

Side by side, with the Johnsonville links on the left and the Bob Evans links on the right.

I rotated the pan, just in case one side of the fire was hotter than the other . . .

The Johnsonville sausages cooked up darker, presumably because they've got some added corn syrup that caramelized on the outside of the casings.

Now, for the blind taste test:

and the winner is . . . Bob Evans. They've got a simpler, more straightforward sausage taste. The Johnsonville links were sweeter and had more going on with the seasonings (rosemary? fennel?), but their flavor lingered too long and I just didn't like them as much. Both were pretty mild, and both were better with the fried eggs I cooked up afterwards.