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Cumberland sausage
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A traditional long English sausage made from chopped pork with pepper and herbs.
en 1980 AA Book of British Villages Drive Publications Ltd 62 Cumberland sausage is about half as thick as your wrist and extends in a single rope several feet long, so that Mistrootchinson [Mister Hutchinson, the butcher], having weighed you one end while the other trailed over the edge of the scale, would then cut it for you like a draper selling a length of tape.
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