Which has the most shit in it, sausage or burger?

[mistermack]

I like both, so they both must be full of shit.

Which is the worst? Any butchers in? Veggie stuff doesn't count. It TASTES shit, so it must be healthy.

[Svartalf]

Trying to impersonate Scumple, are you?

[mistermack]

Trying to impersonate Scumple, are you?

No, there's some guy cooking wild boar sausages on the tv right now, got me wondering.

I've often thought of making my own, to avoid eating shit, but it's too much work and they don't taste the same.

[Hermit]

I've heard a similar trick question to this one in kindergarten. It went like this: What is heavier, a ton of iron or a ton of feathers?

[mistermack]

I've heard a similar trick question to this one in kindergarten. It went like this: What is heavier, a ton of iron or a ton of feathers?

Heh? It's not a trick question, unless one sneaked in by accident.

I do know a trick question :

Two skunks living down a hole.
One called out, the other called in.

How did out know whether in was in or out ?

[piscator]

Potatoes are loaded with shit. Especially organic potatoes. Shit's all they eat, right? Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium - all derived from shit and old dead corpses, with maybe a little carbon from coal ash. Then you fry them up in some CO2 fractured oil and dip them in Worcestershire sauce, or coconut milk and curry paste, or whatever.

[JimC]

I get pork sausages that are made by our own butcher on the premises. Pricked, then grilled on the BBQ, a fair bit of the fat runs out.

They are fucking delicious...

And we make our own burgers...

[Brian Peacock]

http://www.lets-make-sausage.com/

[JimC]

There's always the game of hide-the-sausage...

[mistermack]

Just one generation back from me, everyone made their own sausages.
My family used to keep at least one pig, as did practically every country family.
They would kill it themselves, salt the bacon themselves, smoke hams, make their own sausages, black pudding, etc etc. And their own lard as well. Very little of a pig would go to waste. And it was all delicious.

The pig got the food scraps from cooking and from the table. So the people got the best cuts of everything. Nowadays, if a potato or something has a black bit in, I cut it out and use what's left, because I don't like waste. In those days, they didn't bother, it just went to the pig.
They didn't have fridges in those days, but if food went off, it went to the pig. If milk went sour, the pig got it. There was practically no waste, with a pig around.

Now look what families chuck into land fill. It would keep herds of pigs.

[cronus]

Sausage is healthier if your talking street drugs.

[FBM]

Just one generation back from me...

Some of my earliest childhood memories are of family reunions, during which a couple of hogs would be killed and processed, with the families splitting up the results. Nothing was wasted but the hair that was scraped off the skin.

[mistermack]

Just one generation back from me...

Some of my earliest childhood memories are of family reunions, during which a couple of hogs would be killed and processed, with the families splitting up the results. Nothing was wasted but the hair that was scraped off the skin.

That used to be a very sensible tradition. If you haven't got freezers and fridges, it pays to call the family and friends around when you kill a pig.
Everybody helps with the work, and everybody gets well fed. As well as the socializing.
And at the end of it, there's less to preserve.
Then, when someone else kills a pig, your family gets invited and the same applies.

It was the same in feudal times, the rich used to hold feasts and feed the serfs.
They might as well. If you killed a bullock, most of the meat would only go off if you didn't.
Now that everyone has a freezer, there is only the social incentive. Still nice though.

Actually, it became cheaper in the end to buy your meat, than to rear it. Something to do with bulk buying of feed etc. My uncle still kept a pig for ages, because he preferred fatter bacon. But he stopped in the end.

[pErvinalia]

I really wanted to slaughter a beast while living here on the land and divvy it up between the neighbours and my friends. Sigh, another failed dream...

[laklak]

Yep I remember hog killing out at the family farm. There would be a couple of pig heads sitting in washtubs on the back porch, waiting to get boiled up for scrapple or head cheese. Hams sitting in brine, bacon salted and hung. I have very fond memories of home made scrapple.