Bangers and mash
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Image:Bangers and mash 1.jpg Template:Wiktionarypar 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.
Bangers and Mash was a children's television series in 1991 on the BBC.