In 1984, in an especially memorable episode of Yes Minister, Jim Hacker battled to save the British sausage from the Brussels Bendy Bananas Brigade.
Now it is American gas guzzlers who pose the threat.
Pig food is going up in price because of the competing demand for corn to make green ethanol. So pork is more expensive.
But the supermarkets are unwilling to pass on these price rises to the hard pressed British consumer of sausages.
So shares in sausage makers are falling
