Bangers and Mash

I've always liked eating in pubs when in Britain, but during the past decades the quality of pub food went down. More and more pubs are in the hands of chains, offering the same boring menu and use convenient food delivered to them.

Some days ago I re-discovered pub food at lunchtime again. I had a wonderful steak and ale pie in St Stephen's Tavern close to Houses of Parliament, enjoyed this plate of bangers and mash in The Angel and had another bangers and mash in The Duke of Wellington yesterday before heading to a concert of the Soweto Gospel Choir in Cadogan Hall in Chelsea.

Bangers and mash are a typical English dish consisting of sausages, mashed potatoes and gravy. Wikipedia says: "The term bangers is attributed to the fact that sausages, particularly the kind made during World War II under rationing, can explode under high heat if not cooked carefully. Modern sausages do not have this attribute."

Will continue to favour vegetarian dishes, always with a pint of good ale, again after these intense meat feasts over the last few days.