The Mysterious Origins of a Funny Food: The Sausage

(via Atlas Obscura) The ubiquity of the food makes it hard to trace its first moments on Earth; sausages were a solution to a problem that every culture was likely to come up against. “Sausages were created originally for two reasons: One, to make use of every little piece of the meat, so nothing is wasted, and two, by using salt and smoking, it was a way to preserve it,” explains Gary Allen, author of Sausages: A Global History.  Could there have been a definitive “first” sausage?  Read more at Atlas Obscura.