Great Junk Creators–Sausage Man
In my Grog Comic post last week, I could have mentioned that the person(s) who invented sausage and/or hot dogs was, in fact, a junk creator (but I didn’t).
I couldn’t find a specific “one first sausage inventor” but according to Wikipedia:
Sausage is a natural outcome of efficient butchery. Sausage-makers put to good use meat and animal parts that are edible and nutritious, but not particularly appealing, such as scraps, organ meats, blood, and fat, and allow the preservation of meat that can not be consumed immediately. Hence, sausages are among the oldest of prepared foods.
It is often assumed that sausages were invented by Sumerians in what is Iraq today, around 3000 BC.
Other interesting historical sausage facts in the same article were:
Chinese sausage làcháng…which consisted of goat and lamb meat, was first mentioned in 589 BC. Homer, the poet of The Ancient Greece, mentioned a kind of blood sausage in the Odyssey (book 20, verse 25)…
(To view the entire article, click here, or past this link into your address bar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage)
So, look at it this way, western civilization has come up with something that makes use of all parts of the animal (and you thought we wasted everything, didn’t you?).
That means that if you eat sausages while reading my blog, you’ll be using unattractive meat, and finding ways to use stuff that most people would throw out–look at you, Mr./Miss/Mrs./Ms. Ecologist!
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