Like I said, it's Kepy's fault. If he hadn't went to the Scottish Parade
and then didn't talk about Bangers and Mash, I wouldn't have got curious.
So I went hunted information up and down.
How did Bangers and Mash get it's name?
Well, believe it or not (I don't believe it) here is the story.
Now before I relay this on I thought I'd ask Scrappile if he thought
the following is true...Scrappile being Scottish should know.
Then I found out Scrappile, being Scottish since he was born,
has never eaten Bangers and Mash, at least by that name.
Now that I believe.
Here is how the fable goes:
BANGERS AND MASH
A British staple, the ‘mash’ part of the name is easy to work out, but where do ‘bangers’ come from?
The sausage, one of the oldest types of processed food in history, can be traced back to ancient times. British pork sausages have been mass produced since the 19th century.
The Victorians, sceptical of what was actually in a sausage and suspecting the presence of rather a lot of horsemeat, nicknamed them ‘Little Bags of Mystery’.
After the outbreak of World War I, food shortages led to a dramatic reduction of meat, of any sort, in sausages.
Instead, producers packed them out with scraps, cereal and water, which caused them to pop and hiss when cooked on shovels over open fires in the trenches of northern Europe — hence ‘bangers’.