So my encyclopedia of word origins has informed me the word sausage comes from the Latin salus, meaning salted or preserved. (Hmm, perhaps that is incorrect. Webster’s online has the Latin word as salsus.) It’s says it was invented by the Chinese (I can’t verify that), and it gives the recipe used to make The Great Scunthorpe Sausage, which was the longest sausage ever made for a long time. It reports the 1998 world record came from Canada for a “continuous sausage” 28.77 miles in length.
The current Guinness World Record, which may not be for exactly the same thing, is measured by weight. The 2008 Guinness report states: “The record for the largest sausage weighed 18.98 tonnes (41,859 lb) and was made by J.J. Tranfield on behalf of Asda Stores Plc, at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK on 27-29 October 2000.”
Oh, look. Here’s an entry on “Scandinavian words in English.”
Bismarck is supposed to have said, “Men who love laws and men who love sausages should not watch either of them made.”
By gaully! Ven do ya tink vee vill get to zee vun of doss really really big Norwegian hot dogs, heh? Norway must make dea best. I’ve-a heard they have fewer rodent parts
Vee folks out here in dea outlands vould be zo grateful for zeeing such a ting!!
And I know vatching law made is a terrible ting to zee. Sausage making hass to be zo much nicer, heh?