Sausage
Sus scrofa domesticus · Meat
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Ground meat, usually pork, mixed with fat and spices, then stuffed into a casing. Fresh links like bratwurst are cooked before eating; salami is fermented and dried to slice and eat raw. Few prepared meats are older.
Picking a good onedrag
Fresh from the counter: plump, cold, cleanOff: slimy, sour, grey-green or mouldy
Cold and sealedBuy itRead the label to see if it needs cooking. Buy it cold, keep it cold, cook it soon.
The label and the packStill sealed, date days away
The link in the handSpringy, faintly moist, clean
Colour through the casingEven, the cut end a shade duller
Smell at the endMeaty, spice quieter, not sour