From one ''Purveyor of Fine Meats'' to another, Canberra's sausage king Cameron Fenson received a prized bit of fan mail last week, a signed poster from Kel Knight of Kath & Kim television fame.
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The poster from Knight - the alter ego of comedian Glenn Robbins, who plays the butcher husband of Kath - reads "To Cameron, Love to see your award winning sausage! Well done, All the Best, Kel Knight".
Fenson is the ACT's sausage-making champion, and his lamb sausage with fresh coriander, basil, garlic and pepper won him his second national title in the lamb category last month.
The similarities between Knight and Fenson, who owns Meatways Butcher in Kambah, have not gone unnoticed since Kath & Kim hit the airwaves.
"I must admit you listen to him, and I do sound a little bit like him, because you come up with all these silly ideas and you think … he's obviously hung around with some butchers to know what we're really like," Fenson said. "I don't know if he intentionally made us butchers look pedantic, or so proud of our work, but I know I am."
In the show, Knight is often suggesting or testing new sausage recipe ideas, something Fenson's wife knows all about.
"My wife says 'you remind me of Kel' - because I go home and try some funny concoctions on the stove, or bring something home and say 'I'm just trying this, what do you think' and she has to back up and have an extra dinner," he said.
"I probably think of something different about once a week, but whether or not I make it or turn it into something is a different thing.
"If I'm not at work, if I go somewhere and I'm sitting down, or on holidays, all I do is start thinking about - oh that was nice, I could put that into a sausage … It's rubbing off on my staff too - Matt here just came up with a squid and pork sausage. We talked about it, but we're not thinking about putting one together at the moment."
It was the "uncanny" similarities which led Fenson's wife to email Robbins after her husband's latest award. While he wasn't able to take up the invitation to visit the shop, he sent the poster which is now laminated and hanging proudly in the window, providing plenty of laughs for Fenson's customers.
"It's something to talk about," he said.