Do you know how many kinds of sausage there are? Every European country has its own specialty. - Andouille — France
- Bratwurst — Germany
- Chorizo — Spain
- Italian Sausage— Italy
- Chorizo — Mexico
- Longaniza — Argentina
- Sai Ua — Thailand
- Longganisa — Philippines
The most popular supposedly is Chorizo, from Spain. Spicy pork with paprika and garlic. And the most consumed sausage? Germany consumes the most, followed by Poland. The highest consumption per capita is tied between Cezch Republic and Germany at 19 kg per person, then Austria at 16 kg per person.
What about the hot dog? "The hot dog is not an original sausage but merely an American adoption of German sausages, frankfurters, and wieners. The texture of a hot dog is smooth and paste-like, while sausages have a more composite mixture of miniscule bits of meat." Despite that authoritative sort of answer, there is wide consensus that it is a sausage.
That's because what makes a sausage a sausage is really simple - it is its tube shape: "an item of food in the form of a cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating."
How would we recognize it historically? Look for the spelling sawsyge - mid-15th century England; saussiche for France. We reference historical beginnings with the Romans, Greeks etc. So we trace words back to Vulgar Latin - salsica ("sausage"), from salsicus ("seasoned with salt").
I like sausage jokes - especially the puns on wurst.
Germany is telling its citizens to stock up on sausages and cheeses as the fear of Covid grows
It’s the wurst-kase scenario
Don't ever challenge a German sausage maker to a competition.
It brings out the *wurst* in him.
My friend has just fed German sausage to a bird.
He’s taken a tern for the wurst.
My kid left some uncooked sausage out of the freezer overnight.
When I discovered it, I realized I was dealing with a spoiled brat.
I plan to get to Royal Botanical Gardens for the cherry trees - I saw a few in bloom in Grimsby yesterday. My weeping cherry isn't blooming yet. The RBG cherries are massive and old, full of sculpted branches.
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