SAUSAGES IN HISTORY
The ancient Greek cook Aphtonite was the first person to have mentioned the sausage. His version was a black pudding, a savory sausage consisting of mainly seasoned pig's blood and fat contained in a length of intestine.
The sausage was also talked about in Homer's Odyssey. "As when a man besides a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it quickly roasted."
The Knights by Aristophanes was the first play to mention sausages. First performed in 424BC the work is about a sausage vendor who is elected leader.
Even earlier, the Sicilian playwright Epimarchus is said to have written a play called The Sausage, which is sadly now lost.
The most famous sausage in Ancient Roman times was from the Lucanica, a short spicy, smoked beef or pork sausage. According to Cicero and Martial, it was brought by Roman troops or slaves from Lucania (modern Basilicata).
Sausages were banned in the newly Christianized Rome in the mid-4th century because of their association with sinful pagan festivities. A black market was set up.
Early in the 10th century during the Byzantine Empire, Leo VI the Wise outlawed the production of blood sausages following cases of food poisoning.
Nürnberger - a type of white sausage, dates back to the year 1313. Traditionally this sausage is only as long as your finger and served three in a bun.
Alheira de Mirandela is a kosher bread sausage, which was invented in Portugal to help hide Jews from the Spanish inquisition. Jews had fled to Portugal from Spain and pretended to be Catholic. In Trás-os-Montes every home preserved pork sausages to see the family through the winter, hanging them from the rafters and Jews – who did not eat pork – were conspicuous for their missing sausages.
The word 'sausage' comes originally from the Latin 'salscius' meaning 'prepared by salting'. It dates back to the 15th century in English.
Early Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli's first overt gesture against Catholic dogma was his eating of sausage during Lent in 1522, an event usually taken as the start of the Swiss Reformation.
Martin Luther killed his own pigs to make sausages.
Frankfurt in Germany makes a good claim to having invented the frankfurter in the 1480s and in 1987, the city celebrated the 500th birthday of the hot dog.
This claim is disputed by those who assert that the frankfurter – then called a dachshund or little-dog sausage - was created in the late 1600’s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany. According to this report, Georghehner later traveled to Frankfurt to promote this long smoked sausage.
Every Thursday the French chemist Louis Pasteur habitually consumed for his dinner hot sausage garnished with red kidney beans.
During his time in Switzerland in the mid 1910s, Vladimir Lenin lived at a crowded house at Spiegelgasse, Zurich. A nearby sausage factory emitted such an unpleasant whiff that the future communist leader retreated to the city's Central Library as often as possible.
Cow intestines used for sausage skins were so vital in making gas bags for German Zeppelins that during World War 1 the Kaiser banned Germans from eating sausages.
During World War I, meat shortages led to sausages having a higher water content, causing them to pop when fried—so sausages are called "bangers" in the U.K.
The first recorded use of the adjective 'sausagey' was by DH Lawrence in 1921.
The soya sausage was invented 1916 in Germany. It was first known as Kölner Wurst ("Cologne Sausage") by later German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967).
The British spend around half a billion pounds on sausages in a year, eating more than a quarter of a million tonnes.
The Currywurst Museum in Berlin is the world’s only museum dedicated to the German sausage currywurst.
Botulinum toxin, the toxin that Botox is derived from, is the most expensive substance ever made at £100 trillion per kilo and was first discovered in poorly prepared sausages.
Sources Daily Express, Food For Thought by Ed Pearce
Alheira de Mirandela is a kosher bread sausage, which was invented in Portugal to help hide Jews from the Spanish inquisition. Jews had fled to Portugal from Spain and pretended to be Catholic. In Trás-os-Montes every home preserved pork sausages to see the family through the winter, hanging them from the rafters and Jews – who did not eat pork – were conspicuous for their missing sausages.
The word 'sausage' comes originally from the Latin 'salscius' meaning 'prepared by salting'. It dates back to the 15th century in English.
Early Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli's first overt gesture against Catholic dogma was his eating of sausage during Lent in 1522, an event usually taken as the start of the Swiss Reformation.
Martin Luther killed his own pigs to make sausages.
Frankfurt in Germany makes a good claim to having invented the frankfurter in the 1480s and in 1987, the city celebrated the 500th birthday of the hot dog.
This claim is disputed by those who assert that the frankfurter – then called a dachshund or little-dog sausage - was created in the late 1600’s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany. According to this report, Georghehner later traveled to Frankfurt to promote this long smoked sausage.
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| Smoked frankfurter By Frank C. Müller |
Every Thursday the French chemist Louis Pasteur habitually consumed for his dinner hot sausage garnished with red kidney beans.
During his time in Switzerland in the mid 1910s, Vladimir Lenin lived at a crowded house at Spiegelgasse, Zurich. A nearby sausage factory emitted such an unpleasant whiff that the future communist leader retreated to the city's Central Library as often as possible.
Cow intestines used for sausage skins were so vital in making gas bags for German Zeppelins that during World War 1 the Kaiser banned Germans from eating sausages.
During World War I, meat shortages led to sausages having a higher water content, causing them to pop when fried—so sausages are called "bangers" in the U.K.
The first recorded use of the adjective 'sausagey' was by DH Lawrence in 1921.
The soya sausage was invented 1916 in Germany. It was first known as Kölner Wurst ("Cologne Sausage") by later German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967).
FUN SAUSAGE FACTS
The British spend around half a billion pounds on sausages in a year, eating more than a quarter of a million tonnes.
The Currywurst Museum in Berlin is the world’s only museum dedicated to the German sausage currywurst.
Botulinum toxin, the toxin that Botox is derived from, is the most expensive substance ever made at £100 trillion per kilo and was first discovered in poorly prepared sausages.
Sources Daily Express, Food For Thought by Ed Pearce
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