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So are you actually claiming that ground meat is sausage or that anyone would think it's a sausage upon cooking and tasting it, regardless of how it looks?
by cup-of-tea 8y ago
So are you actually claiming that ground meat is sausage or that anyone would think it's a sausage upon cooking and tasting it, regardless of how it looks?
- lgessler 8y agoRegardless of how people actually do turn out to use the word sausage, my point is (1) that you could imagine alternate histories in which any combination of those meanings could be attached to the word "sausage" (2) there is no principled way to insist that one of these combinations is the "correct" one.
- cup-of-tea 8y agoNo, I can't imagine any other version of history because salt is the entire point of sausage. Prior to refrigeration it was the only way to preserve meat. Grinding meat might have been done if it was to be eaten immediately but otherwise it would be a waste.
- kungtotte 8y agoSmoking was a way to preserve meat other than salting it that existed long before refrigeration.
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- dshkbxzu 8y agoThey specifically say tube. That the shape makes it a sausage, not the salt content.
- cup-of-tea 8y agoNo it doesn't. You might think it does but you've never made a sausage. The tube shape comes from the natural casing used. But you can make sausage into any shape you want and it's still sausage.