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[Jenni]

This may seem like an odd topic for a vegetarian to start, but I did use to eat meat and I do also have an almost completely carnivorous (vegetables? what vegetables?) brother!

Saveloys. I live in the South West (just outside of Bristol) and our local chippie does them. My mother has always looked upon them with disdain as some kind of horrendous, red-dyed franken-meat. I must confess, I can no longer remember what they taste like. But as children, they were almost the point of going to the chippie for us kids, and this is a feeling my brother retains to this day.

The trouble is, he lives in Reading now and can't seem to find a chippie that does them! This has led us to ponder a question: Are saveloys a regional thing? Are there towns that haven't heard of them? Are their actually English people who haven't heard of them?! Discuss.

[Harters]

Yes, I think they may be regional. Certainly I think of them as "southern" and our chippies in the north west don't have them.

However, I'll swap you your saveloy for our rag pudding.

[liuzhou]

They may be regional, but not southern. We had 'em in Scotland when I was a kid.

Your mother is right!

[Jenni]

I seem to remember a sort of rubberiness about them, suspect they would taste rather naff if i tried one these days!

Interesting to hear about finding them in Scotland though- perhaps they are not that regional then, just dotted around in some places and not it others.