Top 8: The best sausages for your summer barbecue

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No need for post-Brexit posturing or deli diplomacy with our sausage selections.

In Spain, they say, “six people, seven opinions”, and this year’s sausage test turned out to be just like that. Lots of opinions, first on paper, keeping to ourselves, then in the discussion which revealed the differences, all passionate.

Starting with 16 samples, as in political elections, some got turfed out unanimously, mainly meat-free and chicken varieties that had dried herb, over-salted flavours or over-processed textures. Some were over spiced with chilli overpowering their meaty flavours. Because we were tasting fresh sausages, we couldn’t include the excellent farmers’ markets held on different days of the week. They have many great sausages from pigs reared on their farms.