Sausage Skins
Dear Aunt Daisy, "Instead of sausage skins ... use sheeps’ intestines "--Listener, 13/6/41, page 46. What on earth do you suppose that sausage skins are? Perhaps you think, as I did when a small boy, that sausages are cows’ teats. The crossword in the next column accounts for my noticing this. -XXX. Thank you, "XXX," you _ have helped me to clear up my somewhat hazy ideas about sausage skins. I did know that they used to consist of the cleaned and prepared intestines of sheep or pigs; but it certainly seemed to me that there could not be enough of these natural skins to encase the miles of sausages made in the world, even though the intestines of each animal are of a surprising length. I concluded that a great proportion of sausage skins could be artificially manufactured; and indeed, this is the case with some of the large red luncheon sausages. However, after your letter came, I had a chat with my butcher, who assured me that the American Hog Industry supplies great quantities of skins; besides those which we obtain from our own sheep and pigs; and that all ordinary sausages are made with these. So you have helped me to learn something, you see. Do the crosses in your signature carry the usual significance?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 54
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218Sausage Skins New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 54
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