sausage

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It's interesting that the sausage was my favorite bite from The Salt Lick, one of my other favorite bites of the trip was also a sausage: this bratwurst from The Best Wurst, a stand on

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  1. noun Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.

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  • Cause shitdamn Germany's a smexy son of a-- sausage dog ... —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Be sure to put a little vinegar in with the blood to prevent coagulation before the sausage is cooked. —  The Daily Reckoning Australia
  • The extent that you can show and share over a sustained period of time where I want to go - at least the public had an opportunity to question you eye to eye, look you in the face before you get to what I call the sausage making process.
  • The best trainers are in Eastern Europe and can only be coaxed over with generous quantities of spicy sausage, alcohol, and American cigarettes. —  The Toque
  • If you've ever had the Jimmy's Sausage flatbread pizza at Bolsa in Oak Cliff, you know how perfect the sausage is-just the right combination of sweet tenderness and spicy-hot piquancy. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
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  1. Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman sausiche, from Vulgar Latin *salsīcia, from Late Latin, neuter pl. of salsīcius, prepared by salting, from salsus, salted; see sauce.

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  1. Early modern English also saulsage, saucidge; dial. sassage; from Middle English saucige (also extended sawcister, sawcyster, saucestour, salsister), properly *saucisse (= Dutch saucijs), from Old French saucisse, saulcisse, sauchise, French saucisse = Italian salciccia, salsiccia = Spanish salchicha (cf. French saucisson), salchichon = Portuguese salchicha, salchichão, from Middle Latin salsitia, salcitia, salsicia, salsutia, feminine, salsitium, salsutium, etc. (after Roman), properly salsicium, neuter, a sausage, of salted or seasoned meat, from Latin salsus, salted: see sauce.
 

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