saveloy

She added like every Essex girl she is a lover of a chippy at the end of a night out and always had a hankering for a battered sausage or saveloy.

Now devotees and converts from across the UK are visiting the Coventry takeaway in a pickled egg pilgrimage and saveloy sojourn.

These included a woman complaining that she had been sent three saveloy and chips from the chip shop instead of one.

The snack of choice was a "Sav and a Slice" - a saveloy sausage served with a slice of bread and English mustard.

He roots among his supplies and offers me a fine piece of saveloy.