A giant, 130kg banger was the centerpiece of a traditional sausage festival in Kaliningrad, Russia on Saturday. /VCG Photo

It took five men to carry the sausage, which had a diameter of 90cm, in a procession through Kaliningrad, capital of a Russian province sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. Other meats on the menu included a Munich white sausage and a sausage with pork and apple based on an old Irish recipe brought by immigrants to the US. /VCG Photo

Paul Zimbali, maker of the giant sausage, said that it followed a 16th-century recipe and was designed to be easy to reheat. /VCG Photo