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proof that meat scraps, salt, and a tube of intestine equal civilization.
means ground meat, fat, and seasoning stuffed into a casing, invented to waste nothing of an animal.
from the word traces to latin salsus, meaning salted, and the technique is ancient — sumerian tablets from 3000 bc mention stuffed intestines, and homer wrote about them in the odyssey.
oldest mentionsumerians made them 5000 years ago
name originlatin salsus means salted, preserved
casing truthtraditionally real intestine, still used today
political idiomlaws compared to sausage-making since 1869
for instance
bratwurst — germany, over 40 regional varieties exist
chorizo — spain and mexico, diverge wildly by paprika type
andouille — louisiana, smoked and central to cajun cooking
cumberland sausage — england, sold coiled in one long rope