What defines a sausage?
What defines a sausage?
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CanAm-TT

Original Poster:

862 posts

256 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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Is it the meat or the fact that it has a skin??

what would you call a burger made of sausage meat?

southpaw

635 posts

258 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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You can get skinless sausages, so its not the skin. I think its the way they are made....

BTW, this is a wierd question...

princeperch

8,268 posts

276 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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according to brainydictionary.com

"An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal"

pdV6

16,442 posts

290 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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CanAm-TT said:
Is it the meat or the fact that it has a skin??


The skin. You know a sausage for what it is the moment you see it (and before being told its a veggie one! )

CanAm-TT said:

what would you call a burger made of sausage meat?


A pork & leek burger (substitute filling of choice)

>> Edited by pdV6 on Monday 13th June 14:08

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

273 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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CanAm-TT said:

what would you call a burger made of sausage meat?

Traditionally;
a rissole
HTH

MrsRotty

637 posts

260 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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Ted!!!

Hijack!

bga

8,134 posts

280 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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princeperch said:
according to brainydictionary.com

"An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal"


Natural skins are usually sheeps intestine (bit like the first jonnies iirc)

MrsRotty

637 posts

260 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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You mean there are unnatural skins?

CanAm-TT

Original Poster:

862 posts

256 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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Yes it is a weird question, but it is amazing how the conversation can get diverse with the aid of alcohol!

The reason being is that a burger made from sausage meat wouldnt be called a sausage burger, because I said it had to have a skin on it to be called a sausage.

And I guess that according to the brainy dictionary you do

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

273 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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MrsRotty said:
You mean there are unnatural skins?

Yup, a form of cellophane would you believe.

Selmer

2,760 posts

271 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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So is the cylindricality (it's quite possibly a word) the very essence of a sausage?
What sort of radius is required at the ends?

groucho

12,134 posts

275 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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A nice bit of Cumberland.

canam-tt

Original Poster:

862 posts

256 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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ive just had a cumberland sausage all this talk of sausages made me hungry

thebluemonkey

1,296 posts

269 months

Monday 13th June 2005
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Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the Lorne Sausage.