Ah, the north/south divide of England. An ageless debate; a never ending list of cultural differences - and don't even get me started on Scotland.
When you meet someone from the opposite end of the country to you, it throws up a whole world of questions. Is it dinner or tea? How do you pronounce bath? Do you say barm, bap or something even weirder?
But a northern girl was stopped in her tracks when she came across a strange creation known as the 'saveloy sausage'.
Sophie Finnegan, originally from Middlesborough, moved to Chelmsford two years ago, before recently being told about the unusual 'sausage'.
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Being the gutsy, cultured northerner she is, she decided to try one, all within an hour of finding out it exists.
It's a chippy staple in the south, so Sophie did a bit of digging before taking the plunge and trying it out.
After a quick Google, she was horrified to see the words 'pig brains' pop up - a traditional ingredient in the sausage.
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According to locals, a saveloy is a type of highly seasoned sausage, usually bright red, normally boiled and often available in British fish and chip shops - a type of hot dog that is usually eaten with chips.
Being from Middlesborough, Sophie admits the concept of buying an item from the chippy that hadn't been battered was a bit alien to her, but she went ahead anyway.
Describing her experience on Essex Live, she said: "After unwrapping the paper to get stuck into my meal, I was confronted with a huge, bright red tube of meat that was almost as long as my forearm.
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"After a few bites, I wasn't that keen and after a few more I still wasn't a fan.
"For me the bright red skin was far too thick to the point where I could hear it split when I put my knife through it.
"The texture felt strange in my mouth, it felt like I was eating something that still had the wrapper on."
Sophie then went on to give us more detail about the sausage itself.
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She said: "I like a sausage as much as the next person and I probably could have got over the thick skin if there was a decent sausage inside, but that was probably even more disappointing.
"Looking at it from an outsider's perspective, I initially thought it would be quite spicy or have some heat to it but it was just a bog-standard sausage.
"Personally, I thought the sausage meat itself was quite bland and just not very flavoursome at all. It was like a less tasty hot dog in a leather jacket."
She scored the sausage 3/10, and after that description it's easy to see why - give me chips, cheese and gravy any day.
Featured Image Credit: Essex Live