"I'll have the Cumberland sausage and mashed potatoes, please," Michelle said.

It is well known for its Cumberland sausages.

Even more than having a stomach bunged up with four eggs, a white cottage loaf and three colossal Cumberland sausages.

"Not my way to whinge, but I never heard such chatter, not before that one; she'd talk the skin off a Cumberland sausage."

The Cumberland sausage has been a local speciality in Cumbria for around 500 years.

It is not known how the Cumberland sausage came to acquire its special shape and taste.

Most sausages are divided into links but the Cumberland sausage is one continuous rope-like coil.

Butchery classes are attracting waiting lists as long as a Cumberland sausage.

Cumberland sausage, a local specialty, figures on most menus.

Bonus point: Cumberland sausage made to old family recipe.