Picture this, it's Saturday morning and you want to kickstart your weekend the right way with the perfect Full English breakfast - but where do you go to get your supplies?
No greasy fry up is complete without a classic pork sausage or two, but with so many brands and supermarkets now competing to bring you the best bangers, it can be tough to separate the cream of the crop from the absolute flop.
If you're not sure where to get your meat fix, look no further - as we've put supermarket sausages from Aldi, Asda, Tesco, and Morrisons to the test to find out which one you should be chucking in your basket for your next cooked breakfast.
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In the interest of keeping testing as fair as possible, I set out to buy the bog-standard bangers on offer at each of the four shops - that means nothing from any of the supermarkets' fancy ranges, and no up-market flavour combinations.
I chose to cook my sausages under the grill for around 15 minutes and did not pierce the skin before cooking.
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And while I went into the test expecting one supermarket to trump the lot because of my previous experience with their more expensive sausages, the end result had me rethinking my entire shopping list.
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I was also surprised to see the prices of the sausages remaining pretty similar, and even though cut-price supermarket Aldi was the cheapest, only 35p separated their eight-pack of bangers from the most expensive ones on my list.
Aldi - 6/10
★★★★★★
£1.35 for eight pork sausages
The cheapest sausages from my taste test selection, Aldi's bangers were almost exactly what I expected for the price. The sausages were quite greasy but had a strong meaty flavour - which is what you want from a sausage, really.
I wasn't completely blown away by Aldi's offering, but they weren't bad. However, something about the texture and the flavour gave me the feeling they were better suited to a bangers-and-mash meal with plenty of gravy, and maybe not the best decision for a fry up.
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Tesco - 4/10
★★★★
£1.70 for eight pork sausages
I was disappointed with Tesco's sausages. The popular supermarket sold the most expensive bangers of the bunch with 35p separating them from their cheapest rivals, Aldi, and their price hike wasn't justified.
To me, the sausages were almost rubbery in texture and bounced off my teeth when I tried to take a bite. Flavour-wise, Tesco and Aldi are a pretty close comparison, but for the price, Aldi wins it.
And even though I didn't pierce the skin when I cooked them, Tesco's bangers failed to hold in their juices and were quite dry compared to the others.
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Morrisons - 7/10
★★★★★★★
£1.49 for eight pork sausages
Now, I went into this one quite biased. Morrisons is my supermarket of choice for my weekly shop and I already knew that the pricier Marketplace sausages are some of the best I've ever had.
But trying their cheaper offering had me craving the fuller flavour of the fancier banger, as this one left a little to be desired. Much like Tesco, they were a little on the chewy side, but for me, they just beat out both Tesco and Aldi based on juiciness and overall porky flavour.
Interestingly, Morrisons were the only sausages without visible herbs - but that didn't seem to impact the flavour one way or the other.
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Asda - 9/10
★★★★★★★★★
£1.60 for eight pork sausages
Okay, not to be dramatic, but I think these sausages changed my life. Super juicy, piping hot, and melt-in-the-mouth. What more do you want from a banger?
Asda's offering was by far my favourite, and by pure happenstance I chose to taste theirs last, leaving me on a glorious meaty high at the end of my taste-testing journey.
Priced at £1.60, Asda is the second most expensive of the bangers I tried, but I would say the small price difference is worth it.
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The final verdict
In my personal order of worst to best, the sausages went as follows: Tesco, Aldi, Morrisons, Asda.
While none of the sausages on offer were inedible, Tesco proved to be both the most expensive and the least mouthwatering - making them drop to the bottom of my sausage league table.
Aldi, while the cheapest of the bunch, could have been juicier and a little fatter, and Morrisons - who was the second cheapest - would have done well had they been a little less tough.
The real triumph was Asda, who were both fair on their price and outstanding in taste.
If you want my opinion on where you should get the ingredients for your next fry up - my vote would definitely be with Asda.
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