1889 2 Feb. 4/1 But the ‘mystery-bags’ of Sieur X, if we are to believe the common report, were far from being fragrant. This gentleman has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for ‘making sausages of tainted meat’.
1975 16 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 8/3 The British call them sausages, chipolatas, bangers, porkers, grunters, dogs, thins, links, mystery bags.