I rather like the taste of Diestel Smoked Turkey Sausage meat patties… it's the $9/lb. that I find objectionable. It goes rather well with fried green tomatoes from the garden and sour dough pancakes.
A few months ago I found a deceptively large, but only 3½ ounce box of cereal at Whole Foods. Doing the math on that cereal and some crackers found that they cost $30/lb.… for grain!!! Quong Hop makes some delicious tofu and tempeh burgers, but their price exceeds meat patties—but then there are those meatless Fridays. 
I just cannot abide any kind of poultry sausage. It tastes and feels weird.
There is a wide diversity of excellent regional pork sausage brands in the United States. Besides the decidedly corporate Jimmy Dean brand, there is Bob Evans (began as a small rural Ohio firm, gone corporate but still very, very good), and Gunnoe's with roots in West Virginia and Virginia.
The best breakfast sausage I ever had, though, was in...
Bruges, Belgium. Like an even better version of its American counterpart. You don't usually think of Europe as having that kind of breakfast sausage.
(And as for black pudding, I was tricked into eating it once, didn't know what it was made out of. That won't happen again.)