Linked sausages... is it a British thing?

You'd think by now we'd be over the transatlantic quirks and discovered all the anomalies there are across the pond.

But no. Here's a new one:

'What the...?' says TLOML. 'These sausages are all joined together!'
'Oh,' I say, 'Don't they come that way in the States?'

Nope. It turns out, and I never noticed this before, American sausages come all separated neatly, no need to cut the links. It is, as we say at Fox Corner, 'A British thing'.