What is (a) sausage?

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If I’ve understood it correctly from various cooking shows and televisionshows, you lads refer to minced pork as sausage. Like, you make sausage-pattys for breakfast sandwiches etc. And at the same time, you are also refering to the long tube-cased meatfilled dish as sausages and also sometimes a hotdogs?

What gives? What is the line between a sausage and hotdog? Is a bratwurst a hotdog or a sausage? Can other minced meats also be sausage, or just pork? What if you have a 50/50 beef/pork mix, is that sausage meat or just meat?

As a man from scandinavia, I’ve wondered this for too long!

Comments

  1. Traditional-Job-411 Avatar

    Just minced pork will never be sausage.

  2. MortimerDongle Avatar

    A hot dog is a specific kind of sausage

    >you are also refering to the long tube-cased meatfilled dish as sausages

    This is what sausage means. Well, technically the casing is optional, but it must be a meat tube. However, a sausage that is cut up is still a sausage.

  3. ALoungerAtTheClubs Avatar

    A hotdog is a kind of sausage.

  4. Iseno Avatar

    Breakfast sausage is its own thing, typically made of sausage stock so I believe that’s how it gets that name.
    Here tube casing is usually what you consider a sausage like bratwurst or chicken sausage and the like.