2006-08-26 01:43:30 · 20 answers · asked by Shazbuff 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
English and Scottish sausages, or bangers (so named for their tendency to explode during cooking if poorly made), for example, normally have a significant amount of rusk, or bread crumbs, and are less meaty than sausages from other countries, although sausages with high meat content can be found. Bangers are also used to make toad in the hole.
2006-08-26 01:54:17 · answer #1 · answered by littleone_ky2wa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just one point missing from all the above.
Yeah - it's to do with too much bread-crumb / rusk / water being added to the sausage rather than meat content, causing the sausage to sometimes explode when cooking.
But, the term "banger" originated in World War 2 when meat was in such short supply due to rationing that butchers were forced to add the above things to their sausages in much greater quantities than before, making many more sausages explode!
2006-08-27 02:13:00 · answer #2 · answered by Sabatier 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another name for sausages. Originates from the fact that they explode when cooking if they are not pierced first. A traditional English meal is "bangers and mash" (sausages & mashed potatoes).
2006-08-26 09:03:39 · answer #3 · answered by Scabius Fretful 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They add water to them, and as they cook the water expands into steam and explodes. Hence, Banger.
2006-08-26 13:35:27 · answer #4 · answered by punkpanther 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Odd eh? cos old bangers are clapped out motor cars.
2006-08-26 08:46:41 · answer #5 · answered by poppy vox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because there use to be so much water in them that when you cook them they would bang so people started calling them bangers
2006-08-26 10:20:00 · answer #6 · answered by carol p 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Siany is right, when properly made the air inside bursts through the skin.
2006-08-26 08:50:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many years ago they were made with poor skins, which used to explode loudly,and to this day the name sticks
2006-08-26 08:55:33 · answer #8 · answered by Croeso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they're not, at least where i live we call a sausage a sausage, or a polish, depending on it's ethnicity
2006-08-26 08:50:29 · answer #9 · answered by bakbiter 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you know what Willy is used for? Banging hence bangers.
2006-08-28 11:51:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋