Saveloy
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A saveloy is a type of highly seasoned sausage
Sausage
A sausage is a food usually made from ground meat , mixed with salt, herbs, and other spices, although vegetarian sausages are available. The word sausage is derived from Old French saussiche, from the Latin word salsus, meaning salted.Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made...

, usually bright red in colour, which is typically available in English fish and chips
Fish and chips
Fish and chips is a popular take-away food in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada...

 shops,but more often from pork shops sometimes fried in batter
Batter (cooking)
Batter is a semi-liquid mixture of one or more flours combined with liquids such as water, milk or eggs used to prepare various foods. Often a leavening agent such as baking powder is included to aerate and fluff up the batter as it cooks, or the mixture may be naturally fermented for this purpose...

. The word is assumed to originate from the Swiss-French cervelas or servelat, ultimately from Latin cerebrus; originally a pig brain sausage particularly associated with Switzerland.

The saveloy's taste is similar to that of a frankfurter
Hot dog
A hot dog is a sausage served in a sliced bun. It is very often garnished with mustard, ketchup, onions, mayonnaise, relish and/or sauerkraut.-History:...

 or red pudding
Red pudding
Red pudding is a meat dish served mainly at chip shops in parts of Scotland as an alternative to fish . The ingredients consist of bacon, beef, port, pork rind, suet, rusks, spices, salt, beef stock, beef fat and colouring....

. It is mostly eaten with chips
French fries
French fries , chips, fries, or French-fried potatoes are strips of deep-fried potato. North Americans tend to refer to any pieces of deep-fried potatoes as fries or French fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of deep-fried potatoes are...

, but occasionally also in a sandwich accompanied with pease pudding
Pease pudding
Pease pudding, sometimes known as pease pottage or pease porridge, is a boiled vegetable product, which mainly consists of split yellow or Carlin peas, water, salt, and spices, often cooked with a bacon or ham joint...

, stuffing
Stuffing
In cooking, stuffing or filling is an edible substance or mixture, often a starch, used to fill a cavity in another food item...

, mustard and/or "gravy" (ie the brine of the sausage). This is known as a "saveloy dip" in the north east of England, as one half of the bread roll is dipped in gravy, in a similar manner to the French dip sandwich
French dip sandwich
A French dip sandwich, also known as a beef dip, is a hot sandwich consisting of thinly sliced roast beef on a "French roll" or baguette. It is usually served au jus , that is, with beef juice from the cooking process...

. The chant "Oi Oi Saveloy" is highly popular in the North West of England as well as Kent in the South East of England.

The saveloy is available in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, when not eaten at home, it is usually consumed at fairs, fetes, (agricultural) shows and sporting events where the boiled saveloy is served on a slice of bread or in a bread roll and liberally covered in tomato sauce, it is sometimes battered and known as a "Battered sav". The saveloy was originally known as a frankfurter in Australia until World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, when many German names of food and places were changed to more English sounding ones.

Saveloys are popular in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, where they are larger than the English type. Although they are sold at fish-and-chips shops as in England, they are commonly bought at butchers' shops or supermarkets and cooked by boiling at home. Saveloys are known colloquially as "savs". In fish-and-chip shops the traditional "hot-dog", which is a battered sausage on a stick, can be made from saveloy though more typically ordinary sausage. (A sausage in a long bread roll is called an "American hot dog" to distinguish it.) A beef version is found too. A "Cheerio" is a smaller version, about half the size, sometimes called a cocktail sausage ,or "little boys". These are a popular children's party food in New Zealand and Australia, often served hot in a sweet, spicy tomato sauce.
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