In Popular Culture
- Peter Sellers recorded a song with Sophia Loren, "Bangers and Mash", extolling their virtues: "No wonder you're so bony Joe, and skinny as a rake. Well then, give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make".
- In the 1991 film King Ralph, King Ralph I (John Goodman), while being schooled in English history and culture by his Private Secretary Sir Cedric Willingham (Peter O'Toole), is shown a variety of traditional English dishes, including bangers and mash. When Sir Cedric explains to him about spotted dick, he mistakes the bangers for the traditional English dessert and replies to Sir Cedric, "Spotted dick? Dick of what?"
- The British band Radiohead pays homage to this dish on the bonus disc to their 2007 album In Rainbows with the track entitled "Bangers + Mash".
- Keith Richards, in his autobiography Life gives his own personal recipe for bangers and mash.
- In a 1994 episode of Frasier titled Duke's, We Hardly Knew Ye, British housekeeper Daphne responds to Frasier's comment about the third date being the occasion where two individuals decide to have sex with, "It takes more than three dinners to get bangers and mash with Daphne Moon."
- In the comedy series Arrested Development, Tobias Funke said "Who'd like a banger in the mouth? Oh, Christ, I forgot. Here in the states, you call it a sausage in the mouth.", to which Michael Bluth replied "We just call it sausage."
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