MEDIA COVERAGE
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Broadsheet: "In person and online Chrissy Flanagan is magnetic: fun, riotously hilarious and sweary, with a vulnerability that’s completely disarming. Her energy is hard to fathom, and you desperately want to see what she does next."
Delicious on Sunday: "Chrissy Flanagan posted her first sausages on Facebook. “They were terrible,” she says, and friends were surprised at her subsequent success. “There’s a story in that. You can figure out how to do anything. If you have determination you can make it. It’s a super-steep learning curve but you can chip away at it.”
Good Food: ""Beer never tastes better than it does in the brewery and we feel the same way about sausages," Chrissy Flanagan says. "We wanted to have a place where people could come straight to the source.""
2024: Chaotic Social
Broadsheet: Chrissy Flanagan is in the business of creating friendships. It’s the central tenet of Chaotic Social, her colour-drenched, “aggressively orange” event space in Petersham where the affable Chaotic Socialite hosts classes and events for people to meet, bond, and she hopes, make plans to hang out again.
2023: Chaotic Social
Time Out: "You might recognise Chrissy Flanagan from her viral TikTok videos – where she has gained a legion of fans for her raw honesty, parade of home sewn dresses, street furniture finds and her geriatric dog, Poppy. Or, you might recognise her as Sydney’s Sausage Queen (the edible kind, get your mind out of the gutter!)."
Sydney Morning Herald: "Chrissy Flanagan has worked in public relations and sausage making, and now runs a social club in Petersham."
Sydney Morning Herald: "In Chrissy Flanagan’s 20-year career, she’s been a Labor party campaign assistant, a city authority executive director, a sausage maker and now hosts a colourful social club in Sydney’s inner west."
2022: Queens of Chaos Brewing, The Sausage Factory, Dully Locals
Sydney Morning Herald: "Chrissy Flanagan is part of a small but determined movement focussed on providing female booze producers with a platform where they can shine. "People want to feel a connection to where their drink comes from," she says. "When they know they're supporting a female-owned business, it feels special."
Sydney Morning Herald: "Those considering an Inner West brewery crawl are spoiled for choice. Where abandoned Marrickville factory walls once reverberated with the bass of underground rave parties, they're now pumping with some of the most unique beers in the country."
2020: The Sausage Factory, Sausage Queen Brewing, Chrissy’s Cuts Sausages
Crafty Pint: "The Sausage Factory is governed by Sydney’s loveliest foodstuff related monarchy, the Sausage Queen herself, Chrissy Flanagan. No one quite knows how Chrissy obtained her crown. Some say it’s divine right, others insist that she pulled a snag from a stone in Barangaroo Reserve."
Time Out: "If you’ve ever pondered that eternal question, 'how is the sausage made?', or even if you’re just a fan of a good banger and a beer to wash it down – this one is for you. On the first Saturday of every month, Chrissy Flanagan hosts sausage classes at her venue The Sausage Factory, where you can get hands-on with mincing and making artisan snags with a tinnie in hand."
2018: The Sausage Factory, Chrissy’s Cuts
2017: Chrissy’s Cuts
The Music: "Sausage Queen Chrissy Flanagan Is Mistress Of The Meat You Have To Eat At Meatstock"
Gourmet Traveller: "Before turning her hand to the meat grinder, Chrissy Flanagan worked as a government consultant, but restlessness lead to dabbling in kombucha, jam and cheese making."
Delicious Magazine: "A life of sausages was not exactly what Chrissy Flanagan first envisioned when she began her career... But a penchant for making craft food in her spare time led her down a path to meat."
The Beat: "The only woman to ever place in the prestigious Sausage King competition, Chrissy Flanagan is a force to be reckoned with in the sausagefest of gourmet sausage making."