Bangers and Mash
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More of a serving suggestion than a recipe, Bangers and Mash is a British colloquial name for sausages (bangers) served alongside mashed potato, very often with gravy being poured over both. The sausages may be one of a variety of flavours such as pork, pork and apple, tomato, beef, Lincolnshire or Cumberland. The full meal will usually include a vegetable (e.g. peas, brussels sprouts). The gravy may be flavoured with the appropriate meat stock, or may be an onion gravy.
It is a very popular winter dish, and can range in quality from the very cheapest sausages and instant mash accompanied with an instant gravy mix such as Bisto, or with high-end gourmet sausages and carefully-made mashed potatoes and gravy.
This dish may, even when cooked at home, be thought of as an example of pub grub - relatively quick and easy to make in large quantities as well as being tasty and satisfying. More up-market varieties, with exotic sausages, are sold in gastropubs, as well as less exotic alternatives being available in regular pubs.
One variant is the "Banger Clock", for which twelve cooked sausages are placed on a mound of mashed potato in a pattern resembling the hours of a clockface; eating an entire banger clock is considered a feat of prowess, similar to drinking a yard of ale.
Bangers and Mash was a children's television series in 1991 on the BBC.
Bangers 'n' Mash is the title of a song by British alternative band Radiohead.
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