In his ' Sausages Are Not the Only Meat', Brown set out what has now become the standard definition of 'the perfect sausage' 1 - though not without causing a degree of consternation among scholars.ġ James Brown, Sausages Are Not the Only Meat (Cumberland: Pork Press, 1995), pp. 78-90.Ģ Harry Neville, Breakfast Bangers (London: Brown, 2005), pp. 2ġ John Butcher, The Perfect Sausage: From Pigsty to Plate (Cumberland: Pork Press, 1990), pp. 1 However, Neville has recently produced conclusive evidence to the contrary.

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