Are we not supposed to be shopping local these days ? As with record shops, support your local butcher. Use it or lose it I say.

In general terms, the best ones you can afford at your best local butcher. Here in Chester there are at least three I am happy to use. There is a Rick Stein Food Heroes guide, or there was (is it still in print ?), which was good for recommending quality suppliers and outlets across the UK.

....... coat, etc.

best butcher?

They are special.

But good luck getting any.

The butcher in Rothbury (I think it's called Rothbury family butcher) is brilliant.

Cafe Cherubini in Glasgow makes wonderful spicy garlic Italian sausages as well.

some snorkers contain all manner of body parts.

It has been said that Wall's have ears.

{puts on blood-stained white coat}

Jimmy Doherty's are very, very good.

My favourites are O'Hagen's. Based in Chichester, just down the road from me, they were one of the first makers of posh sausages and, despite all sorts of setbacks, they still make 'em now. http://www.topsausages.com/

There's a great pub in Emsworth called the Sussex Brewery which serves O'Hagens sausages. On big platters. Great, it is.

I must warn you. A dinner heavy on rich sausage, real ale and onion gravy produces farts capable of stripping wallpaper, blistering paint, rotting gussets and waking children.

Well it does with me.

called "Giggly Pig" - they come down to our local Farmers' Market. Well worth trying.

... but I do know who makes the best traditional British sausages outside the UK, and that's Taylors and Jones on Hantverkargatan in Stockholm. Superb sausages freshly made on the premises. Not cheap, I suppose, but once in a while you can treat yourself. So if you're ever in the Swedish capital, and fancy a nice Lincolnshire pork sausage, then Taylors and Jones is definitely the place. Tell 'em duco01 sent you.

http://www.taylors.se/

Or so he told me at the last London drinks.

Kel's Fine Meats in the Fountain Gate Shopping Centre

Supreme Sausage Winner at the Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage and Products Competition 2009. When Mr Hofmann won the pie title three years earlier, he said it was like winning the World Cup.

MacCartney.

I would imagine the Empress of Blandings would make the best

Do very fine pork and caramelised onion sausages; delicious in themselves but also their cooking juices make unbelievable gravy. Sweated some mushrooms down in the pan after cooking some of these snags this morning, then allowed the liquid in the pan to reduce down to a thick gravy of fabulous, unctuous richness. Mmmmmm.

- Porkinson's
- Porky Whites
and (a recent discovery)
- Laverstoke Park Farm (owned by Jody Schekter)

in Clapham Old Town, SW London - called Moens who do superb sausages and burgers too

The best butcher I have ever been to for everything - quality of goods and service - Allen's in Mount Street, London W1

They deliver across UK Mainland - see website
http://www.allensofmayfair.co.uk/

the title and thought that it said 'Who Makes The Best Sausages In U2'!

might be a bit gristly, The edge a bit too flashy.

Best sausages are from my local butcher in Shenstone. Consistently high quality and none of those poncey herbs that stop a sausage tasting like a sausage.

are Porky Whites Surrey Sausages: http://www.porkywhites.co.uk/ They have a hint of honey and lemon to them which, whilst not overpowering, gives them a certain something.

My 2nd favorites are Porkinson Banger: http://www.porkinson.co.uk/ Made by a bloke who moved to Trinidad and wanted to recreate his 'perfect' sausage over there.

these:

http://www.debbieandandrews.co.uk/

particularly the Perfect Pork.

if his cries from the lavatory earlier are anything to go by

My brother Gareth and myself make the best sausages in Wales .Artisan Sausages to be found by word of mouth at the moment in Sketty ,Swansea.

In this small market town of 4000 souls we are blessed to have three butchers. Two are local butcher/farmers- most of what they sell comes from local fields, so the livestock has had a decent life and also tastes grand.

My personal favourite New Close Farm - pork specialist with a new shop in the town produces the best. Their Old English will feature on the menu if I ever find myself choosing my final meal.