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Bangers and mash is quintessential British comfort food. Traditional pub grub and a common everyday dish on British tables, the bangers are traditional British pork or beef sausages, and mash is slang for mashed potatoes. Bangers and mash are traditionally served by placing fried sausages on a pile of mashed potatoes and dousing them in an onion gravy.
While bangers and mash is a classic working class dish, it's also found gussied up on gastropub menus where it may be prepared with any number of fancy sausages or gravies.
The term "banger" is said to refer to the sausages' tendency to explode -- or bang around -- in the pan when cooked over high heat.
Like bangers and mash, bubble and squeak is British comfort food, a homey dish made from a mixture of mashed potatoes and chopped cooked cabbage that's fried until golden.
Bubble and squeak was traditionally a way to use up leftover meat from the requisite English Sunday roast, with the meat added to the mixture. But now it's usually made without meat. It is similar to the Irish dish Colcannon.
Bubble and squeak's colorful name apparently refers to the sounds it makes as it cooks -- or lands in your stomach.
