Thank you ancient Sumerians

[Magical Realist]

"So who was the frugal genius who decided to stuff an animal’s meat into its own intestine? In other words, who invented sausage? The answer is not so simple. If we consider the meaning of the word “sausage,” it would lead us to the Latin word salsus, which means ‘to prepare by salting.’ As Latin is primarily associated with the Roman Empire, it is not a far stretch of the imagination to guess that the Romans graced us with sausage among their many legacies. But unfortunately, no credit can go to the Romans. The first men to make a sausages would do so by stuffing cooked intestines into animal stomachs, but they would do it thousands of years before the Romans.

These first sausages date back to the Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia, which is modern-day Iraq. This would have all happened around 3000 BC. Residents of China also get credit for being a close 2nd around 580BC. There is even a play by a Greek author entitled “The Sausage,” which was created around 550BC. Unfortunately, the brave soul who invented sausage by deciding to stuff meat scraps in an intestine is lost to history, so we can only wonder what his inspiration was. We like to believe that he or she was the first to really mix it up on leftover night."===http://www.ponderweasel.com/who-invented-sausage/

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[C C]

Unfortunately, the brave soul who invented sausage by deciding to stuff meat scraps in an intestine is lost to history, so we can only wonder what his inspiration was.

The plains Indians used bison intestines as water bags / canteens and storage containers. If the latter sometimes consisted of food, guess it was kind of inevitable to eventually discover (multiple times all over the world) that anything turned fetid after a long trip might taste slightly better if it and the extended "gut-pouch" it was stuffed in got cooked.

Red Feather: "Yuck. After three days of riding in the summer heat, this tastes almost like the original contents."

Cloud Wolf: "Uh... knew I forgot to clean something out first."

[stryder]

Something similar but slightly younger is "Haggis".
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/His...onal-dish/