This is the Group for all of you who appreciate a good Sausage and to prove British Sausages are the best in the world.

Sausage Facts:


• The history of the sausage starts at least 5,000 years ago in Sumeria (modern day Iraq).

• By 900 BC sausages had become the popcorn of the ancient Greek theatre, available from sausage sellers
in the aisles.

• In 320 AD the Roman Emperor Constantinus I and the Catholic Church banned sausage eating because of
links to pagan festivals! This led to sausages going underground until the ban was lifted.

• The sausage was in trouble again nine hundred years ago. Emperor Leo V declared that sausage makers
would be ‘severely scourged, smoothly shaved and banished from our realm forever ’. It is not known what
sausage sellers had done to cause such offence.

• It was in the reign of Charles I that sausages were divided into links for the first time.

• Apparently legendary highwayman, Dick Turpin, was known to moonlight as a butcher making sausages from
the finest meats hunted in Epping Forest.

• Sausages were nicknamed bangers during the Second World War because when they were fried they
tended to explode with a bang!

• Henry V stated: ‘War without fire is as worthless as sausages without mustard ’.

• A number of sausage manufacturers hold a royal warrant and one sausage manufacturer in particular, holds
of a royal warrant granted by Her Majesty the Queen, but has been a supplier firstly to King George V and
latterly to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, so royal patronage has become part of the company ’s
heritage.

• There are more then 470 recipes and flavours of sausages in Britain. If you take into account all the different variations from butchers across the country, you could eat a different sausage every day for ten years!!

• The worlds longest sausage was made in October 2000 during British sausage week and weighed 15.5 tonnes- it was 35 miles long!!

• The most expensive sausage in the UK were made from fillet steak with champagne and truffles- they cost £20 per sausage

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This is the Group for all of you who appreciate a good Sausage and to prove British Sausages are the best in the world.

Sausage Facts:


• The history of the sausage starts at least 5,000 years ago in Sumeria (modern day Iraq).

• By 900 BC sausages had become the popcorn of the ancient Greek theatre, available from sausage sellers
in the aisles.

• In 320 AD the Roman Emperor Constantinus I and the Catholic Church banned sausage eating because... (les mer)