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| | Bangers and Mash - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | A plate of home-cooked, steaming mashed potato with plenty of butter, fl pepper and a splash of hot milk, surmounted by a wigwam of juicy sausages, in a moat of rich onion gravy. |
 | | The word sausage comes from the Latin salsus, meaning "salted", and the idea of packing meat products, flavourings and fillers such as breadcrumbs into an animal stomach casing is thought to have originated in Sumeria (modern-day Iraq) at least 5000 years ago. |
 | | Seen as unsophisticated fare until the recent popularity of posh sausages with a whole range of new flavours, bangers and mash is now very much back on the menu. |
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