Ask ten people in Goa where to get the best sausages and you'll get ten different answers — usually the place their own family has bought from for years. That's part of what makes Goan sausage culture what it is: it was never really a retail product, it was a household skill, and a handful of names have carried that reputation forward.

Here's an honest rundown of where that reputation still lives — including where we fit into it.

The traditional markets: Mapusa and Margao

If you want the classic experience, Mapusa Friday Market in North Goa and Margao Market in the south are where locals have bought sausages for generations. You'll find multiple stalls, women selling homemade "rosary" sausages by the string, and the kind of variety you won't get from any single shop. The trade-off is consistency — quality varies stall to stall, and you're relying on being there on the right day.

The legendary smokehouse names

Ask around Goa Velha and you'll hear about makers who've spent decades perfecting a single traditional recipe — sausages cured in homemade toddy vinegar and smoked over a wood fire for days, by families who've done it since before it was a business. These are worth seeking out if you want to taste sausage-making the way it was done a generation or two ago, though most of these operations are small, informal, and don't always have listed contact details — you're often going by word of mouth and a general location.

Where Pork And More fits in

We didn't set out to reinvent Goan sausage-making — we've just kept doing it the way it was taught to us. Our granny, Eliza E. Crasto, ran this business the traditional way: hand-cured in toddy vinegar and her own masala blend, then smoked slowly over a wood fire, never sun-dried for speed. Since she passed, I've kept making every batch exactly her way, out of our home base in Dovandem, Fatorda.

What's different is that we've made it easy to actually get — proper ordering, real delivery, and a listing you can check reviews on before you buy (we're currently sitting at 4.8 stars from 34 reviews). One customer recently had a parcel delivered all the way to Mumbai and said it outclassed the "dry and hard" sausages from other vendors they'd tried — which is exactly the gap between traditional curing and the shortcuts most mass sellers take.

Our honest recommendation

If you're in Goa and want the full market experience, go to Mapusa or Margao on a good day and taste a few stalls. If you want the traditional wood-smoked process without the hunting-around, or if you're outside Goa entirely and want it delivered properly packed, that's exactly what we built Pork And More to be.

Order fresh sausages: 083295 05767 or through our online ordering page at porkandmore.com Find us: Dovandem, Fatorda, Madgaon, Goa 403602