21 Apr 2022
We are buzzing to announce that we've just launched into Nisa!! Of course Josh had to go down to check it out for himself. We always bundle into a car and visit the store on the day we launch, firstly because we're so excited and secondly, to make sure…
20 Apr 2022
Meet Becky, our lovely Finance Assistant and Queen of office management. Becky joined us last year to help our Finance Director, Stu, with all things numbers. She looks after the day-to-day finances for our Bristol restaurant, Pigsty, our Bath Spa food kiosk, On the Trot, and other bits of our…
15 Apr 2022
ManiLife x The Jolly Hog collab alert. We partnered with our favourite peanut butter connoisseurs to create this mini content series for Easter, pairing our porky products with ManiLife's award winning peanut butter in the most iconic Easter food, hot cross buns. We love collabing with other food-loving small businesses…
10 Apr 2022
Some eagle eyed viewers might have spotted us this week on Killing Eve!!! 🙌🏼 As big fans of the show, we jumped at the chance to have our brand cameo on the show and get involved in the filming so we could fan girl it up. Massive thanks to our…
10 Apr 2022
One of the highlights of our job is always the menu tasting at Pigsty, our Bristol restaurant. We get to try the whole menu that the chef and our operations manager Thomas Forward put forward whilst we feed back on it. I.e. it’s a bloomin great day of eating and…
06 Apr 2022
When team business meetings involve cows, a windy walk around organic gardens and a delicious lunch & stack of brownies, you know you're in for a treat. Yesterday the whole team visited the amazing team at Yeo Valley Organic for our quarterly business meeting. Aside from gathering around to discuss…
05 Apr 2022
The feeling we get when a new product launches. We have some very exciting news! Our Jolly Cow Burgers are back in stores. 🙌🏼 When we brought these burgs out last year as a WIGIG we had a lot of love for them, and were gutted to see them go.…
05 Apr 2022
There's a new chick in town 🐔 We’ve been serving up hot dogs for over 10 years now so we thought it was about time to introduce a new chick into the mix. After branching out into our Jolly Hen Chicken Chipolatas last year, we’re chuffed to be extending…
04 Apr 2022
Congratulations to Harriet Waldron and Francesca Fox for their promotions to Marketing Executive and Digital Marketing Manager. Of course, the promotions were celebrated with champagne and Harriet's signature dance move being performed to the office by the pair. Together with Olivia Bennett - and an exciting new addition to the…
03 Apr 2022
We are super proud to supply Gousto with our British, Outdoor Bred sausages and bacon. To celebrate the partnership, 2 extra special dishes launched on the Gousto menu recently, using our Porky Black Sausages that are currently available only in Gousto. Hungry customers can choose from: - Porky Black…
02 Apr 2022
Over two years ago now we remember being at Cheltenham Festival with our Jolly Food Village having a crisis talk by the race course as the seriousness of the pandemic began to set in. On the Friday we closed up at Cheltenham festival after a week of serving up food,…
01 Apr 2022
Meet Rosie, our Retail Account Manager, office pocket rocket, chief champagne drinker and undercover pop singer extraordinaire. Rosie joined us just over a year ago as one of our first ever account managers, taking charge of managing and growing our retail business by working closely with our supermarket buyers. Her…
29 Mar 2022
Not the most exciting photo for a lot of people, but an extremely exciting photo for us. We're officially live on Zapp! 🙌🏼 You can now find our Proper Porkers and Smoked Back Bacon on Zapp and get them both delivered to your door - so no more excuses for…
28 Mar 2022
Our Digital Marketing Manager Francesca Fox put together a video showing a little snippet of an average day of her life at The Jolly Hog. We'll be sharing more BTS at The Jolly Hog on our TikTok (as we try and work out how the hell TikTok works - any…
23 Mar 2022
It was an absolute pleasure having a sunny tour around Charlie Bigham's kitchen and quarry recently. It was so impressive to see how much love goes into each dish that comes out of their kitchen, and to meet their lovely staff. Charlie Bigham always challenges himself to asses his recipes…
22 Mar 2022
Team lunch is an important tradition at Hog HQ. 🐽 It all started at our old temporary office, The Dairy Yard, because we had no good lunch spots around. We all decided two of us each week would cook with one of our products for the whole team. …
21 Mar 2022
Meet Tom, chief quiz maker in the office. Tom is our Operations Manager, meaning he oversees our Bristol restaurant, Pigsty, and Bath food kiosk, Jolly Hog: On The Trot. Tom’s in charge of making sure the teams at each site have the support the need for their growth (and also…
19 Mar 2022
There shouldn’t be just one day set up to acknowledge women, we celebrate the epic achievements of every member of our team each week. But as it's International Women's Day, we wanted to take the time to publicly thank the amazing women who without which we would still be three…
18 Mar 2022
A bit of a throwback through our Hog HQs so far. - The opening of our first Hog HQ in 2010. We were half the size back then, but so was the office. Seems appropriate. - The office we had at the back of our old Bristol restaurant,…
03 Mar 2022
Yesterday we said goodbye to our Product and Category Manager Katy Pook (with lots of food and lots of tears) When we first met Katy and found out that her second name was one letter change away from Pork we knew it was a sign! Joining us as our very…
19 Feb 2022
Our Pigs in Blankets are back in stores! 🙌🏼 We're proud to be the only brand making pigs in blankets all year round i.e. the only brand giving them the love that they deserve. For all those that suffer from pigs in blanket withdrawals like we do, you'll be happy…
16 Feb 2022
Massive shout out to our Head of People Hannah Parkes for organising a surprise fun day & night out for the team on Friday. We treated the team to a game of netball (which got very competitive, Olly's rugby days definitely showed), then we took part in a Ready, Steady,…
16 Feb 2022
Meet Hannah, our Head of People, un-officially voted second most cool in our office and queen of providing sweet treats and sass to the office. Hannah Parkes' role is to look after all things people. She’s here to continue making The Jolly Hog a great place to work and helping…
14 Feb 2022
We had the pleasure of collabing with The Northern Dough Co for a Valentine's content piece with this heart shaped pizza this week. We always love partnering with other foodie businesses. It means we get to meet other food obsessed people & help grow both of our audiences through a…
10 Feb 2022
Turning around a Valentine's burger special in 48 hours 👇 Victor, our Chef at Pigsty, came up with this burger yesterday. An hour later Tom, our Ops Manager, had named it - the Pork Mi, a valentines day special. Two hours later Harriet, our Marketing Assistant, had shot it &…
02 Feb 2022
Taste has always been EVERYTHING to us. Because of that, we're always looking for new ways to improve our product's taste, but as well that, to improve our own sensory skills! We'll hold our hands up and say there's always more way to go to become true foodie connoisseurs! Last…
28 Jan 2022
Here's to raising £30k last year for the NHS 🤯 At the end of last year we met with the legendary team at Southmead Hospital Charity to celebrate the work we've achieved together. From the money raised by Max and Stu running the marathon, to the donations built…
23 Jan 2022
Sparklers & BBQed pumpkins, just another day in the life of a Marketing Assistant at The Jolly Hog! 😂 As part of our Meet the Team series, we want you to meet Harriet Waldron. Harriet heads up our Events & Activation, coming up with cool ideas to activate our brand…
21 Jan 2022
The serious sport of panel testing 😂 (hoping we don't get in trouble for getting this candid snap of Olly & Max!) Any food brand will know that panel testing is an essential part of the business. We do it at least once a week with our products and other…
20 Jan 2022
A pretty epic Tuesday spent at Mob this week. Ugo Monye - with the help (or hinderance) of Olly - spent the day cooking up a tasty sausage orzo recipe dropping soon on Mob’s socials 👏🏻 Thanks to the Mob team for showing us your dreamy cooking set-up and studios.…
16 Jan 2022
Meet Stu. Finance Director at The Jolly Hog, Extreme Drinker of Decaf Tea, Top Crisp Snaffler and Balancer of the Bacon Books. Stu is one of our longest standing Jolly Hoggers, having been with us for almost 4 years. He’s in charge of the numbers, budgeting, forecasting and even sits…
15 Jan 2022
6,500 packs of ham donated to FareShare UK and counting!! 👏 We're over the moon that we've managed to donate this many packs just a few months since our ham launched. When it launched we partnered with FareShare so that every pack of our ham we sold helped fund donations…
22 Dec 2021
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF... Ben, The General Manager @ The Jolly Hog On The Trot in Bath Spa 🐽 "Work for me starts at around 6am. I get there an hour before the kiosk opens to set up and get all the hot baps prepped ready for a…
20 Dec 2021
160 boxes packed & sent to families to help tackle food poverty 👏🏻 🎁 Just before Christmas some of our team headed down to FareShare South West to help pack food boxes. FareShare UK sends these boxes on to charities around Bristol and the local area. The food goes to…
16 Dec 2021
The BEST Christmas tradition. Okay, so we know it's past Christmas now but we couldn't help but share this photo. We still can't help but pinch ourselves that we've met a culinary legend like Michel Roux Jr, let alone him being a fan of our porkers! It’s become a…
15 Dec 2021
Ignoring all the news today and staring at these photos of our Christmas menu at Pigsty instead! Whilst we still have our doors open at our Bristol restaurant, we're serving up our epic Christmas menu which includes this banging Yule Tide Pig Board and camembert. Obviously all of our dishes…
15 Dec 2021
One of our favourite things about our business is our events. The Jolly Hog started as primarily an events business (although I'm not sure you'd quite count us rolling up to stadium car parks with a gazebo, trying to shift sausages, as an event business 😂). As we've got our…
14 Dec 2021
Last Friday we took Miss Piggy back to Southmead Hospital to spread some jolly Christmas cheer for the staff. The whole Hog HQ team got involved, making and serving up a whopping 1,900 free Christmas baps using our British Black Treacle Gammon 🙌🏼 Southmead Hospital became a bit of a…
12 Dec 2021
Highlight of the week, watching Joe Marler recreate Lady and the Tramp with Josh and our British Pigs in Blankets 😂 We had a blast with our free pigs in blankets rolling station at Winter Wonderland a couple weekends back, especially when Joe and Josh starting feeding them to…
12 Dec 2021
1000 SANDWICHES SOLD OUT IN AN HOUR! 😲 We had the absolute pleasure of teaming up with Bristol legends, Sandwich Sandwich to create the 'Jolly Christmas Sandwich Sandwich'. To celebrate the ultimate Christmas sandwich, we partnered together to give away 1000 sandwiches full of our premium British sausages and British…
10 Dec 2021
WE ONLY JUST WENT & GOT ON LORRAINE EFFING KELLY! 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 Absolutley buzzing to get a shout out on Lorraine yesterday morning. Blows our mind that Lorraine Kelly said our brand name and ate our British pigs in blankets live on national TV! 😱 Lorraine tried our Pigs…
02 Dec 2021
The Notorious P.I.B is back! And even Roman Kemp's been talking about it! Olly had a pretty epic phone call yesterday LIVE ON CAPITAL RADIO about our pigs in blankets!! We're all still trying to get over the fact he managed to say 'Hog Nuts' on morning radio 😂 We've…
01 Dec 2021
A moment in British pigs in blankets history!🎄 Last Friday we opened our doors for the WORLD'S FIRST EVER pigs in blankets only restaurant! After the last few months of shortages in the food production industry, it was a case of waiting right until the very last minute to know…
25 Nov 2021
You heard it! We’re bringing you a worldwide first!🎄 For one weekend and one weekend only we’ll be transforming our Bristol restaurant, Pigsty, into The PIB café. We'll literally be serving up a menu dedicated purely to pigs in blankets. But expect to see them in all shapes and…
24 Nov 2021
We won at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards & Community 🙌🏼 😲🏆 We are absolutely chuffed to have won the South-West Family Business award! Monday evening we dusted off our fanciest outfits (or in Josh’s case his wedding suit) and attended The Great British Entrepreneur Awards at Grosvenor House. We are…
17 Nov 2021
Christmas has arrived!! Or at least we have at IMG's Winter Wonderland 🎄🙌🏼 What do you think of our new neon signs? 🐽 We're so excited to be back at Winter Wonderland after last year's hibernation! We first pitched up at Winter Wonderland in Christmas 2012 with a lot less gear…
09 Nov 2021
A standard Tuesday morning in the office involves sipping orange juice out of a champagne flute & snacking on smoked salmon...🥂 Just kidding of course. It's our lovely Account Manager Verena Gatley's last day before her maternity leave so we all got together for a send off brunch. Olly whipped up…
05 Nov 2021
Meet Abi, our new Account Manager. Abi will be working with supermarket buyers to help manage our products in their stores and, hopefully, secure us some more listings 😉 As well as having a passion for fashion, Abi shares our love for food. Her favourite of our products is our…28 Oct 2021
After all the hard work that went into creating these patties from us and the team (plus LOTS of burger tasting), we could not be more excited to announce that our Jolly Cow Smash Burgers are back in stores! We were so proud of these British beef burgers, particularly the…
20 Oct 2021
Last week we put up the Christmas decs (minus some of Josh's notoriously tacky decorations) and squeezed into Jolly Hog Christmas jumpers of the past (some of us not so successfully squeezing in) to film our Christmas content. We had a blast working with Studio Whisk again - although we can't…
05 Oct 2021
We wanted to find a way to get our new ham range to help feed those who need it. We've partnered with FareShare UK to do this, with the aim to donate 50k packs of ham per year - that's 200k free ham sandwiches 🥪 We've always admired the amazing…
29 Sep 2021
Words can't describe how excited we were to discover we had won TWELVE Great Taste Stars this year ⭐ We're not big into awards, but the Great Taste Awards have always been important to us. Voted on by a panel of 500 experts, and acting as the world's largest…
29 Sep 2021
Max & Stu are doing us proud and running the London Marathon this Sunday! 🏃 They'll be running to raise money for the incredible Southmead Hospital Charity, specifically for the Discover Project, which has been doing ground breaking research into curing the effects of Long Covid. After spending a lot of our…
24 Sep 2021
We have a new addition to Hog HQ! Meet Liv 👋 Liv is joining us as PR and Comms Manager and will be in charge of getting the word out there that our porky products are the best in the whole land. Liv’s offered to cook us all our lunch…
21 Sep 2021
We had such a blast at Wing Fest Bristol a couple weeks back 🍗 We're still buzzing that the team at Wing Fest allowed us to grace the festival with our 'Pig Wings' - the first EVER pork wing at the festival! We'll be back this weekend for the Manchester…
16 Sep 2021
Rosie went down to a local school a couple of weeks ago with Square Food Foundation to give children from the community free cooking classes. On the menu this week was pizzas (can you tell Rosie thought it was her lucky day?)
14 Sep 2021
🙌 We’re so excited to share that we’re launching into Asda! 🙌 From today onwards you’ll be able to find our Great Taste Award Winning, British Outdoor Bred Proper Porkers and Little Porkers in stores nationally. After a tough year for the Nation and for the business, we couldn’t feel…
09 Sep 2021
We had an absolute blast at MEATOPIA (UK) LTD last weekend on our work social. We even managed to find time to pop into BOXPARK before hand for a light lunch 😉 before trying all the wonders Meatopia had to offer. Amazing to see all the traders who were so…
07 Sep 2021
A couple of weeks ago Harriet & Josh were down at Tough Mudder Bristol handing out free porky samples to muddy runners 🏃♂️ It's been so nice being able to get back to sampling after over a year without it. At the end of the day, you can try all…
02 Sep 2021
We are absolutely buzzing to be hitting up Wing Fest Bristol next week. We'll be treating guests to our famous Pig Wings, a favourite at our restaurant, Pigsty. Our wings will be coated in the smokey black treacle and apple BBQ sauce we use for our BBQ Pulled Pork &…
01 Sep 2021
We couldn't be more excited to announce our partnership with Gousto! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 We're going to be supplying our British Outdoor Bred Great Taste Award-Winning pork products to recipe box legends Gousto 🙌🏼 From today, our Proper Porker Sausages and Streaky Bacon will be in all of the bacon…
26 Aug 2021
It's official! We're all moved in to our new office! 🙌🏼 Thanks to our mum and dad for coming down and opening it up with an emotional speech. In true The Jolly Hog style the giant bow we ordered didn't arrive so our mum completed the grand opening by cutting…
19 Aug 2021
A couple of weeks ago we escaped on a team trip to Suffolk 🐽 We wanted the team to learn more about how beef goes from farm to fork so we visited Henstead Marsh Beef, a cattle small holding in Suffolk ran by Moss Spilling. These guys…
12 Aug 2021
Some of the team were down at FareShare South West yesterday, helping the team to pack food parcels to be sent out to families. FareShare arranges for these food parcels to be distributed nationally to over 10,000 charities & community groups, helping to get nutritious food to vulnerable people 👏🏻…
08 Aug 2021
You may have noticed a few snout and ears popping up in Bristol... We are unbelievably excited to be moving into our new Hog HQ. After having to re-locate to the farm during lockdown, we can't wait to be down in the bustling Wapping Wharf surrounded by lots of Bristol…
04 Aug 2021
Life felt back to normal last week when a few of the team popped down to Square Food Foundation to help with a children's cookery class. It was great seeing kids being able to get back in the Square Food kitchen, with the foundation teaching them important life skills and…
21 Jul 2021
What an honour to have been named as a Finalist for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards & Community South West. Being nominated means even more to us knowing its for the Family Business Entrepreneur of the Year. Being able to share these proud moments not only as business, but as…
15 Jul 2021
It's a busy week ahead for The Jolly Hog events crew as we'll be hitting up not one but two events this weekend. Pretty insane to think after the last year we've had! You can find us serving up our Great Taste Award winning porky products at Tough Mudder and…
13 Jul 2021
Massive shout out to Gipsy Hill Brewing Co for hosting our Jolly Cow pop up this weekend. We had a great time serving up our Smash Burgers and couldn't have been more happy with the lovely feedback we received. From being compared to wagyu burgers, to being told that ours…
08 Jul 2021
We are so excited to finally share with you our latest product - The Jolly Cow Smash Burgers 🍔 As BBQ fanatics, it won’t be surprising that an average Summer weekend for us involves a few hours spent in front of the grill. And, as no Great British BBQ…
01 Jul 2021
Josh in his element 👏🏻 A couple of weeks ago Josh was back down at Square Food Foundation doing what he does second best - making sausages! (Second only to eating them) He taught the staff & local children how to make sausages - plus he made a…
16 Jun 2021
After 12 years, The Jolly Hog is leaving the Twickenham Stoop Line Up. The Stoop was the birthplace of The Jolly Hog, and a place that we will always hold close in our hearts. With Olly playing here for 8 years, Quins giving us our first ever pitch to sell…
10 Jun 2021
We've just launched our Summer Menu at our Bristol-based restaurant, Pigsty 🙌🏼 It's such a privilege for us to have a restaurant, not just because then we get to eat all of the food 😂 but because it's a great place for us to trial product innovation and showcase our…
09 Jun 2021
Yesterday we had the pleasure of having Amy Polly and Sparke Club at Hog HQ for a Team Innovation Day. Amy taught the team about mindfulness, taking us through some guided meditation & teaching us about how mindfulness can activate our creativity. After a quick BBQ - because no Jolly…
04 Jun 2021
Becky is joining us as Finance Assistant and will be supporting Stu, our numbers guy, on anything numbers related. It'll be up to Becky and Stu to make sure we don't eat all of our stock ourselves 😂 Becky's favourite Jolly Hog product is our BBQ Pulled Pork - enjoyed…
01 Jun 2021
Harriet & Hannah were back last week at Square Food Foundation helping the team to put together cheesecake recipe kits & cooked up a lovely staff lunch. It's always an absolute pleasure going to the Square Food Foundation and helping out. Two of our team members have volunteered to…
24 May 2021
As well as being buzzing to have our Bristol restaurant back open again, we are so excited to finally have re-branded Pigsty. Pigsty will always remain the Home of the Hog but we wanted to link it under The Jolly Hog family, now we have our 'Jolly Hog: On the…
20 May 2021
A piggin' good podcast! 👏🏻 It was a privilege to be invited to tell the story of our family business on '3 Peaps in a Podcast'. If you want to hear all three of us brothers talk about business fails, pet peeves, family barneys & how we built the business,…
17 May 2021
Today is a huge day for our business and our brother Josh. We started The Jolly Hog Group from a sausage making machine in Olly's flat and built it up with our other brother Max. Today sees us open back up our kiosk at Ashton Gate for the Bristol Bears…
13 May 2021
We are delighted to launch our Jolly Dog back into stores. After a Winter hibernation, these hot dogs are back in season in time for Summer! These extra long sausages are the perfect size for hot dogs, and their extra smokey taste makes them sizzle with flavour. Using only…
10 May 2021
Each week, we've been taking it in turns as a team to make lunches for each other on a Monday (or Bank Holiday Tuesday), because everyone knows Monday are the worst! As you can imagine, working out quantities for Hog HQ can be hard with Olly, Max and Josh…
08 May 2021
Over the Easter holidays we had the pleasure of popping down to The Vench Adventure Playground Bristol. We went down with Miss Piggy to hand out meals during Half Term to families who depend on Free School Meals. We promise we handed out some of the baps as…
06 May 2021
This time we've made it better than ever. We've added an extra slice of bacon - to finally settle all those arguments about who gets the last rasher 😂 - plus we've made the bacon even thicker this time, adding another element of luxury to this indulgent bacon. …
06 Apr 2021
Our Food Kiosk is back open! 🙌🏼 Having opened our 'The Jolly Hog: On The Trot' at Bath Spa Station, we had to make the hard decision to temporarily close it again during this most recent lockdown. With travelling not allowed or discouraged, the footfall was just not enough to…
26 Mar 2021
Thank you to North Bristol NHS Trust for allowing us to park Miss Piggy at Southmead Hospital for the last year. Thank you to our incredible volunteers, who've donated their time to help us. Thank you to the kind local businesses like Hobbs House Bakery Limited who've donated food to help make this happen.…
03 Mar 2021
Those from Bristol might know that we have a permanent fixture down at Ashton Gate Stadium, where we normally serve up hot dogs to hungry sports fans! With events being cancelled, the stadium is currently being used as a vaccine centre. We wanted to show our support for all…
03 Mar 2021
This week we had the absolute pleasure of being involved with one of the 'Active. Healthy. Happy. Holiday camps' for kids in South Bristol. A collab between some great Bristol orgs - Square Food Foundation, Bristol Sport Foundation, The Childrens Kitchen Bristol & Oasis Hub South Bristol - these…
26 Jan 2021
Whilst we ourselves may stuck at home, our products have been doing a bit of jet setting! Last week, The Jolly Hog products were sold in another country for the first time EVER! You can now find a range of our The Jolly Hog products in selected Choithrams…
02 Jan 2021
True Jolly Hog fans will remember when we used to make bacon medallions. Well, three years later, the bacon is back by popular demand! Using only Outdoor Bred, British bacon, these medallions are perfect for picky piglets or those watching their post-Christmas waistlines, or quite simply for perfect sized…
01 Jan 2021
The Jolly Hen Chicken sausages are now in stores! As lovers of great flavour, and creators of the best and most delicious sausages in the whole land (in our opinion) we've decided to expand into Chicken sausages! Roast Chicken…winner, winner chicken dinner. Reserved only for Sundays? No. The taste and…
13 Nov 2020
We've always thought our sausages and bacon are great but it's amazing to have the confirmation from the Great Tastes judges. We're absolutely chuffed to announce that this year we were awarded 10 Great Taste Stars, beating our previous record 🙌🏼⭐️ Check out the award-winning products!
