RE: Wft?!? a mash banger Brit sawed of a 'merican's head!
August 22, 2014 at 9:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2014 at 9:31 am by ManMachine.)
(August 22, 2014 at 9:23 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(August 22, 2014 at 9:21 am)jesus_wept Wrote: I dont know what I'm more shocked about, that a Muslim would chop someone's head off for Allah or that Brits are known as "mash bangers" (a term I hadn't heard before and wouldn't have understood if someone had called it me)... I think I'll go with mash banger.
Something about potatoes and sausage I believe.
The name for the meal is 'bangers and mash'.
Bangers for sausages because as any good chef knows you're not supposed to prick them or else the fat (and hence the flavour) leaks out so they had a tendency on occasion to explode in the frying pan, hence 'bangers'.
Mash, or creamed potatoes is just what it says. Put them together and you have a traditional low-cost (therefore considered to be working-class) meal of bangers and mash.
MM
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