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To the uninitiated, Britain’s motorway services are merely purgatories of lukewarm filter coffee, overpriced crisps, and grimy toilets.

But to the most committed and passionate motorway mile-munchers, they are sanctuaries of the road — monuments to endurance where a roadside fry-up can taste like Michelin-starred triumph.