Spare a thought for the tiny cocktail sausage...???

BBC News..

Christmas meal treats 'under threat'

"Pigs in blankets and other festive meal treats might be in short supply this Christmas, the British Meat Processors Association has warned.

It says 60% of the labour force in UK meat plants comes from other countries and the industry is not attracting enough seasonal EU workers.

Its chief executive, Nick Allen, told the BBC that wrapping cocktail sausages in bacon was done by hand.

He said the job was "fiddly and hard to mechanise"."

Even the smallest sausage still requires a proper good hand job...