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Important Question for Scots MNetters

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TheMustressMhor · 27/03/2020 11:27

What is the correct term for circular square sausage?

Also - what difference does the shape of it make?

I prefer the circular kind although the rectangular kind is acceptable, too.

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MissMoogle · 27/03/2020 13:38

Scottish borders here. Lorne sausage. Never round. Can we cancel the cheque yet?

TheMustressMhor · 27/03/2020 13:38

Just called "slice", @BreconBeBuggered?

Oh.

There seems to be a positive wealth of descriptors WRT square sausage/lorne sausage/round slice/square slice/circular square sausage.

Personally I eat them all indiscriminately.

Yum.

Grin
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macaroniandpizza · 27/03/2020 13:40

Square, slice sausage, lorne or my personal favourite i use at work sometimes oblong sausage because technically its not square at all 😂

Mlou32 · 27/03/2020 13:41

Lorne sausage on the east coast, it was called square sausage when I lived in Glasgow.

myColoursareblushandbashful · 27/03/2020 13:43

Our local bakery used to do hot filled rolls with the round sausage. We called it slice sausage. Couldn't beat it with some black pudding and brown sauce 😋

TheMustressMhor · 27/03/2020 13:44

Since DH and I have been self-isolating for twelve weeks, the village volunteers have been doing our shopping. These people are brave and kind.

However - when I ask them to go to the butcher's shop, I ask them to buy me "circular square sausage" and two of them have been puzzled.

I once asked the butcher why he made them in different shapes and he said some people preferred the circular sausage.

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FunkyKingston · 27/03/2020 13:45

Lorne sausage is beef sausage.

TheMustressMhor · 27/03/2020 13:46

Technically it isn't square at all
Ah.

Yes - this is undeniable - sausage-as-a-quadrilateral maybe covers it?

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speakout · 27/03/2020 13:46

East Coat here- "slice sausage" , Lorne or square for the other.

Sonichu · 27/03/2020 14:12

It's SLICE. Not sliced sausage, square slice, square sausage and definitely NOT lorne. It's just... slice. At least it is round here anyway. ;)

And who is actually buying the round stuff? Perverts/

Wherehaveallthepeoplegone · 27/03/2020 14:17

Yeah actually we say slice. I was going to say that first, but then started to doubt myself and thought maybe I have been hearing it wrong all these years 😂 didn't want to look like a tumshie 😉

MaintainTheMolehill · 27/03/2020 14:29

Its square sausage if its square, never seen it round - I would call that a burger 😂

ConstantlySeekingHappiness · 27/03/2020 15:27

circular square sausage

This is the craziest description I’ve ever heard for anything.

Square slice and roon slice.

jingscrivvens · 27/03/2020 15:54

There was a great heated debate on Twitter a few weeks ago about the naming of said quadrilateral meat product -

twitter.com/martin_compston/status/1238818037521952769

yoloPenguinsEatfish · 27/03/2020 16:50

Has anyone mentioned MaccyD's sausage patty yet?

TheMustressMhor · 27/03/2020 17:50

Great Heavens yolo.

No self-respecting Scottish butcher would stoop that low.

They might have opening hours which are impossible to understand but the sausage is generally First Class, notwithstanding its shape.

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TheMustressMhor · 27/03/2020 18:21

Right.

Well.

DH and I are self-isolating and the village volunteers are very kindly doing our shopping for us.

I gave one woman my shopping list and she was bewildered by "circular square sausage".

She got it,, though, and failed to enlighten me as to the correct terminology.

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TheMustressMhor · 27/03/2020 18:31

I love square sausage.

Important Question for Scots MNetters
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Mrsfs · 27/03/2020 18:52

We call it a round slice in my family.

Andahelterskelterroundmylittle · 27/03/2020 19:29

A "roll n sausage" would get you a bread roll and square sausage. Lorne saussfe I always thought has a slightly different taste .. I like steak sausage myself . OMG a roll n sausage is good of the Gods 😂

OldGranvilleHouse · 27/03/2020 23:47

Round slice

Minesacider · 28/03/2020 00:36

I imagine I'd call it "that weird round lorne". But it's not something I've ever bought, or ever intend buying!

IHaveBrilloHair · 28/03/2020 00:40

Square sausage is Lorne, round square sausage is sliced sausage.
I love both.

IHaveBrilloHair · 28/03/2020 00:46

The van near me does amazing rolls with everything on them.
Of course it's closed and I'm not able to go out for another 11 weeks though.
Arrrrrrrgggggh.

Wewearpinkonwednesdays · 28/03/2020 00:56

Square sausage. There is no such thing as round sliced sausage, it's a myth.