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Famous Newmarket Sausages
Newmarket is famous for two things. Racing and Sausages. There are two very different types of Newmarket Sausage because two different family butchers claim the name.
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The Musk’s variety comes from the Musk’s family butchers located in Newmarket town centre, where the recipe was originally conceived in 1884, and has remained unchanged. The inventor, James Musk, created a very popular sausage that has been awarded the Royal Warrant by various Kings and Queens, including Queen Elixzbeth II in 2005.

The more widely known Powter’s Newmarket Sausage is the younger of the two recipes (conceived in 1896 by William Harper and Adam Grainger, when trading under the formers own name). Powter’s Sausages used to have a larger presence in British supermarkets than Musk's. Both varieties have won several awards.

In 2005 the European Union and the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs tried to persuade the two companies to merge recipes and gain "Protected designation of origin", from which products such as Parma ham and Stilton cheese have benefited. It would mean that their use of the Newmarket label would be protected to them for the sausage market, but it would also mean that only one of the two recipes could exist. Faced with this problem, each party stands firmly by its own recipe.
Comments - Which do you prefer ? Powters or Musks ?