Traditional Dishes | Lorne Sausage
Sliced sausage (often known as square sausage, or lorne sausage) is a delicacy most often enjoyed in Scotland. Sausage meat - which may be pork, beef, or a mixture of the two - is set into a square and sliced into pieces generally about 3 inches (8 cm) square by about half-an-inch (1 cm) thick. The sausage is rarely a perfect square given the minced state of the meat, which is often bulked out with other ingredients such as rusk.
Sliced sausage remains a favourite in Scottish cooked breakfasts and is often eaten in a bread roll. Also, the square sliced sausage is the ideal size to make a sandwich using one or two slices from a Scottish plain loaf (a form of bread).
The sausage is known as a variety of names throughout Scotland. The name "sliced sausage" or simply "slice" or "sausage" are used on the west coast and around Glasgow. Lorne sausage appears to be the default name in the North of Scotland with lorne, square sausage, square sliced sausage and square slice being popular terms on the East Coast. In the Highlands it is also known a "square sausage" or simply "square".