'GOURMET' sausages are more expensive and taste worse than the humble supermarket generic snags, research has found.Consumer association CHOICE put 24 snags through a rigorous taste-testing process to see which would be the better product to throw on a barbecue.

If you take the burgers, merguez, chops, hot dogs and all other meat cuts out of the equation what can your barbecue party be about.

Ribs of beef and pork are a cut of meat. The term ribs usually refers to the less meaty part of the chops, often cooked as a slab (not cut into separate ribs).They can be roasted, grilled, or smoked.A set of ribs served together (3-4 or more), is known as a rack (such as a rack of ribs).In American cuisine, ribs usually refers to barbecue pork ribs, which are served with various barbecue sauces. They are served as a slab of meat which diners customarily tear apart by hand, then gnaw the meat from the bone. Slow roasting or barbecuing for as much as 10-12 hours creates a tender finished product. See alsoPork ribsShort ribsSpare ribs