1. Essex Pig Company Classic - £3.33
Only prime cuts of leg and shoulder from the happy pigs at Jimmy "Jamie's mate" Doherty's farm go into this juicy, coarse-meat sausage. Textbook British bangers.
www.jimmysfarm.com;
0870 950 0210
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2. Duchy Selections Pork with Herbs - £2.60
These 85 per cent pork numbers are bursting with the flavours of Prince Charles’ free-range pigs. Breakfast don’t get more patriotic than this.
www.duchyoriginals.com;
020-8831 6800
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3. Fortnum & Mason Traditional - £9/kg
One taster described this as a “man’s sausage... meat, meat and more meat”. But its wholesome texture will delight all back-to-basics food fans.
www.fortnumandmason.com;
020-7734 8040
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4. Marks & Spencer Pork and Apple - £2.39
This apple sausage has a subtler flavour than Tesco’s bramley version. Many of the testers also liked its light, crumbly texture.
www.marksandspencer.com;
0845 302 1234
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5. Redhill Farm Lincolnshire - £3.13
These generously stuffed prize-winners from a Lincolnshire free-range pig farm are a major – but delightful – mouthful, with a goodly dose of fresh sage. Perfect for a sausage stew.
www.redhillfarm.com;
01427 628 270
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6. Co-operative Truly Irresistible - £2.49
Our tasters kept coming back for more of these juicy specimens. The perfect breakfast sausage: 91 per cent meat leaves little room for fat.
www.co-operative.co.uk/food;
0800 0686 727
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7. Welsh Sausage Co Pork & Leek - £4.38/kg
Agreat taste of free range pork and easily detectable (and delectable) Welsh leeks won these bangers a Good Taste Award gold medal.
www.langfords-foodhall.co.uk;
01938 552 331
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8. Tesco Finest Pork & Bramley Apple - £2.08
These fruity offerings from the supermarket giant got top marks from our tasters for their delicately sweet pieces of apple. Cheap, cheerful – the best there is.
www.tesco.com;
0845 722 5533
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9. Abel & Cole Cumberland - £3.60
The Hampshire-reared, free-range porkers in these bangers never set trotter in Cumberland, but the seasoning and flavour led one taster to call them “an honest sausage”.
www.abel-cole.co.uk;
08452 626 262
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10. Cumbrian Sausage Co Cumberland - £2.50
Rodney Flett claims to be the last Cumbrian sausage-maker knocking out genuine Cumberland rings. His bangers are succulent and herby. www.cumberland-sausage.co.uk;
01900 604 953
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14 January 2008, Chosen by Simon Usborne
