@Gavin,
Are cockles and laverbread as delicious as they look and sound? I saw a show with a big breakfast plate of them and some bangers and it looked fantastits.
Laverbread?
Think you have me confused with someone else mate. I'm not Welsh.

I didt care too much for English sausage, is there a difference between English and Irish sausage?
It kind of reminded me of scrapple. I think you would dig scrapple.
Both are very good. I've had great examples in both countries with obviously a touch of bias toward my own kinsman's variety. American saussage (links as y'all add to distinhuish it from what we Irish would call pudding) is rarely in the same ballpark when it comes to flavor and texture. I know not why, I am bereft of butchery knowhow. I think it's because there are not enough lips and as$holes in American saussage.
*hot-dogs are excluded for obvious reasons*
Never had scrapple but I'm sure I'd like it. Does not resemble Irish saussage. (I will forgo any obvious double entendres here.)