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Hot dogs, brats, and cocktail weenies are all types of Americanized sausage which don't use intestinal linings anymore. You have to work pretty hard today to f

Hot dogs, brats, and cocktail weenies are all types of Americanized sausage which don't use intestinal linings anymore. You have to work pretty hard today to find sausage in your supermarket that is made the old-fashioned way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casing_(sausage) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casing_(sausage)

jonnathanson 15y ago
Fair. But I suggest that we're picking at nits here. Most mass-market sausages, even of the American variety, are made with mixed and mechanically separated parts, drawn from all over the animal and highly likely to be include portions of bone, head(!), feet, and visceral matter. And the animals themselves live in horrid conditions that often includes standing knee-deep in lakes of their own waste. I think my overall point still stands.
- burgerbrain 15y ago
  My local standard (non-specialist) grocery store sells whole pigs heads, chopped at the neck. Feet are even more popular. I think you might be overestimating how squimish the general population is/would be of such things.
  - bricestacey 15y ago
    Where do you live? I actually go out of my way to find exotic things, but I have never seen that. In fact, I'm one of this people that visit 3-4 grocery stores on the weekend. For reference, I live in New England.
    - djb_hackernews 15y ago
      I grew up in southern MA and pigs feet were a treat in my family growing up... In that area any supermarket has them.
    - burgerbrain 15y ago
      Currently Philadelphia. I just checked the grocery store's website and although they list feet/tails/jowls/skin/neck, they don't seem to be listing head right now. I may be recalling seeing it in Reading Terminal Market^ which certainly has that kind of stuff (one stall there has piles and piles of chicken feet.. I have no idea what you'd even do with those. Stews perhaps.) ^ https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Reading_Terminal_Market https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Reading_Termi...
- true_religion 15y ago
  > the animals themselves live in horrid conditions that often includes standing knee-deep in lakes of their own waste. Considering the oft repeated phrase "as happy as a pig in shit", I don't think many people are going to be squeamish about eating pig just based on its living conditions.

jonnathanson 15y ago

Fair. But I suggest that we're picking at nits here. Most mass-market sausages, even of the American variety, are made with mixed and mechanically separated parts, drawn from all over the animal and highly likely to be include portions of bone, head(!), feet, and visceral matter. And the animals themselves live in horrid conditions that often includes standing knee-deep in lakes of their own waste. I think my overall point still stands.

burgerbrain 15y ago
My local standard (non-specialist) grocery store sells whole pigs heads, chopped at the neck. Feet are even more popular. I think you might be overestimating how squimish the general population is/would be of such things.
- bricestacey 15y ago
  Where do you live? I actually go out of my way to find exotic things, but I have never seen that. In fact, I'm one of this people that visit 3-4 grocery stores on the weekend. For reference, I live in New England.
  - djb_hackernews 15y ago
    I grew up in southern MA and pigs feet were a treat in my family growing up... In that area any supermarket has them.
  - burgerbrain 15y ago
    Currently Philadelphia. I just checked the grocery store's website and although they list feet/tails/jowls/skin/neck, they don't seem to be listing head right now. I may be recalling seeing it in Reading Terminal Market^ which certainly has that kind of stuff (one stall there has piles and piles of chicken feet.. I have no idea what you'd even do with those. Stews perhaps.) ^ https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Reading_Terminal_Market https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Reading_Termi...
true_religion 15y ago
> the animals themselves live in horrid conditions that often includes standing knee-deep in lakes of their own waste. Considering the oft repeated phrase "as happy as a pig in shit", I don't think many people are going to be squeamish about eating pig just based on its living conditions.