The campaign to save the British banger starts here

To mark the start of the silly season, this article is about sausages. The pork-based barbecue favourite, as one elegant variation might have it, is a pretty jolly food, isn’t it? That dog on Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life wouldn’t have been so funny if it had barked the word “bread” or “apples”.  And what other food would sound as good in a phrase like “silly sausage”?