Announcing This Week’s Theme: Sausage

When ancient man began to preserve the meat from his kills, rather than consuming every scrap at during protein-fueled orgy, he quickly discovered sausage, the “natural outcome of efficient butchery.” By taking bits too small to be saved and organs too strange to be eaten alone, dousing them in what salt and spices were available, and stuffing them into the intestines of an animal, our predecessors were able to create handy meat packages that would keep for a long time.

Because sausage making is such an obvious way of maximizing an animal’s flesh, almost every culture around the world has its own sausage-making tradition, from the famous dry sausages of Italy, fresh sausages like the traditional American breakfast sausage, to cooked smoked sausages like kielbasa and hot dogs. Germany alone boasts at least a thousand different varieties (perhaps up to 1,500).

And of course, the immortal Slim Jim is technically a sausage. Ooh yeah!

This week on Dethroner we’ll be talking about the history of sausage, some great sausage you may not have tried, how to make your own at home, and why Constantine banned the sausage when he embraced Christianity.

This week’s theme is: Sausage.

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