SAUSAGE
People have started making sausage in Babylon, ± 3500 years ago. Babylon is located in what is now Iraq. How? Unsalted minced meat and spices and stuffed into animal intestines. If the sausage baked or boiled.
Apparently, the ancient Greeks were already familiar with the sausage, though this time it's not a sausage, but orya. How do we know? From the story written by Homer's Odyssey who lived 29 or 28 centuries ago. Great poets praised orya roasted delicacy.
The Greeks and the Romans were defeated. Conquering nation is also very fond of sausage. They call it salsus (meaning "salted"). Where the origin of the word sausage in English and in Dutch saucijs. Dutch brings saucijs to Indonesia that pronounced "sausage".
In Europe a sausage originally made large. Can be larger than the upper arm of our fathers. Then they make sausages of various sizes as well. There are made from beef, pork, poultry, fish, and so on. Spice and cooking way is different. Sausage is sold raw, there is first boiled, smoked, boiled and then smoked, salted in brine and the like. Then in Indonesia also we can make their own sausage.
Because many kinds, sausages also given a name. There are based on place of origin, some are based on the shape, materials, and how to cook it. Frankfurter sausages smoke was introduced in Frankfurt, Germany. Wiener is one type of sausage that was introduced in Vienna, Austria. Bologna is a sausage that comes from the town of the same name in Italy. Salami is a sausage made with salted (salare in Italian means salted).
Chinese people also known sausage for a long time. Their sausages are drier and more durable. Making sausage including human efforts to preserve the meat quickly so as not to rot in the hot air.
Sausage is now not always covered in the intestines of animals. People are able to make gloves sausage from animal protein and synthetic materials including plastic. But, of course plastic gloves must be removed before eating sausages. If we buy a sausage and other foods, pay attention to expiration date. Foods that have expired, whether it be sausage, milk, canned food, or whatever, can contain bacteria harmful to humans. (source: children reading series, the origin of 2, Summary)
