a strip, please...?

[Becks]

I would've dressed up some sausage links like little Chippendale's dancers*.

But then, I'm kinda evil like that.

*You know...so they can strip.

[Xieg]

Your giving the bypass patient too much credit. He likely has been eating like this for a while and will do so regularily for the rest of his (short) lifespan.

1 Month for the bypass. He will have his second and third heart attacks in another 6 months.

[cinema guy]

I would've dressed up some sausage links like little Chippendale's dancers*.

You could have called them the Chippolatas.

Becky, you are a twisted individual. Keep it up.

[Namrepus221]

That is IT! I am leaving...

Stupid board is nothing but a sausage fest any ways...

(sorry someone had to make that joke... might as well be me)

[Slytovhand]

Ok... now - this might sound like a real stupid question, but as us Aussies have different words for things (and because when I was doing Russian at uni, we got pulled up on it), can someone please describe what a 'sausage' is in the US... It probably isn't that different, but I'm damn really hoping so given a) the SC, and b) sausage and maple syrup?????

(btw - in Russia, it meant 'processed meats' - eg salamis, pepperonis, bratwursts, kranski, knackwursts, etc).

Besides... a 'link' of anything like that down here would mean they'd be about 2", whereas our sausages are about 10cm (just to confuse ppl with the change in measurement systems mid-sentence :P)

[poofy_puff]

Yes, maple syrup is good on some things you wouldn't think so at first, like breakfast meats such as sausage and ham.

In the US, "sausage" means little pieces or ground meat stuffed into a casing. The casing is traditionally the intestine (or bladder, if it is "head-cheese") of the pig or cow from which the meat originated. I heard someone on the TV mention that it's just weird when you take the meat of an animal and stuff it into the guts of the animal, as it is the other way around in life

This is a fun topic for me because just yesterday my grandmother and I went to the Polish store in Worcester (MA) to buy head cheese (a "sausage" made from meat scraps and offal) for my grandfather who is in the hospital. They have the kielbasi hanging up and you get waited on by these young girls who speak perfect Polish (and perfect English!).

[chops]

This is a fun topic for me because just yesterday my grandmother and I went to the Polish store in Worcester (MA) to buy head cheese (a "sausage" made from meat scraps and offal) for my grandfather who is in the hospital. They have the kielbasi hanging up and you get waited on by these young girls who speak perfect Polish (and perfect English!).

Aw, man...I wish I knew about this when I was up in Fitchburg.

[friendofjimmyk]

It probably isn't that different, but I'm damn really hoping so given a) the SC, and b) sausage and maple syrup?????

Sausage, to me, is any pork product - but it can be made with turkey too - its just usually ground pork in a casing (usually some animal intestine).

And sausage and maple syrup - mmmm mmmm mmmm that's tasty stuff...think pancakes and sausage - they even make maple flavored sausage now!

[friendofjimmyk]

This is a fun topic for me because just yesterday my grandmother and I went to the Polish store in Worcester (MA) to buy head cheese (a "sausage" made from meat scraps and offal) for my grandfather who is in the hospital. They have the kielbasi hanging up and you get waited on by these young girls who speak perfect Polish (and perfect English!).

On my mom's side of the family, my grandfather is Polish/German and my aunt married a guy who is Polish. My grandfather used to own a butcher shop and my uncle owns the family butcher shop (very popular one in Cleveland, Ohio) and they make their own kielbasi and sausage and head cheese. They also make kishka (sp?) and duck blood soup...As a kid, I loved being there watching them make it.

If anyone is ever in Cleveland, Ohio - go to Jaworski's Meat Market (it's actually in Parma - a suburb of Cleveland) - it's owned by my uncle Mark and he's a great guy!

[Slytovhand]

Yes, maple syrup is good on some things you wouldn't think so at first, like breakfast meats such as sausage and ham.

In the US, "sausage" means little pieces or ground meat stuffed into a casing. The casing is traditionally the intestine (or bladder, if it is "head-cheese") of the pig or cow from which the meat originated. I heard someone on the TV mention that it's just weird when you take the meat of an animal and stuff it into the guts of the animal, as it is the other way around in life

Yep... pretty much what I was thinking (although smaller). Except ours usually have some sort of combo herbs & spices to flavour them (and sometimes tomato and onion, and ... other stuff...).

yeah - righto on the maple syrup... might have to give it a shot (I recall hearing pancakes and bacon with ms...).

But then - we've got vegemite...:P

[Becks]

Becky, you are a twisted individual. Keep it up.

Thanks.



I wish I had a pic to better illustrate the point, though.

[Primer]

Sausage, to me, is any pork product - but it can be made with turkey too - its just usually ground pork in a casing (usually some animal intestine).

Pretty much what everybody else is saying: sausage is coarse ground meat, usually pork or containing pork, with or without seasonings. "Links" are usually stuffed in casings, anywhere from 1" (3cm) on up, but casings are not mandatory. The ground meat can be shaped into round patties (normal when without casings) or any other shape, including oblong "links."

Salami, pepperoni, kiolbasa, bratwurst, etc are all different types of "sausage" but salami and pepperoni are finer ground and harder than most.

[Andara Bledin]

Mmm.... sausage with maple syrup. It's amazing what you can put syrup on, but it had better darn well be real maple syrup.

Reminds me of the time I was visiting my aunt in Vermont, and we had a nice big snowstorm (full blizzard, actually), and we had maple syrup on fresh snow.

^-.-^

[Mark Healey]

Ok... now - this might sound like a real stupid question, but as us Aussies have different words for things (and because when I was doing Russian at uni, we got pulled up on it), can someone please describe what a 'sausage' is in the US

Pretty much the parts of an amimal that are edible, but you wouldn't eat if they were presented whole, ground up and spiced.

[blas]

Everyone, please don't be so surprised that he was dipping sausage into ranch dressing.

There are people from my neck of the woods who would lick ranch dressing off of a car or eat a brick as long as it was covered in ranch dressing.

YUCK!