they would be a lot easier to cook
2006-10-01 21:44:21 · 38 answers · asked by senoirpob 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Maybe you could start a campain. Pickets around butchers demanding square sausages.
2006-10-01 21:46:41 · answer #1 · answered by Ms. Roxie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To make any machine to produce a round finished product is much cheaper than making a machine to make a square product. This is as true for sausage machines as well as engineering machines.
To put a square hole into a lump of metal would require many operations as each surface would need to be machined separately. To put around hole in all you do is drill through it in one go. Slightly over simplified but I am sure that you can see the reasoning.
2006-10-01 21:51:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I totally agree, none of this rolling round the pan. If you can have square melons, why not square sausages.
Sausages are/were made from the intestines (?) of pigs or some other animal, stuffed with sausage meat. Intestines are round (well, cylindrical) so that is why sausages are too.
2006-10-01 21:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by HP 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have actually had square sausages from a fish and chip emporium, they are readily available in the North of England and Scotland, and endorsed by Nicole Kidman. Check out the link below:
http://www.smalloranges.com/sausage/
2006-10-01 21:57:29 · answer #4 · answered by J C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Scotland some are square. Known as Lorne sausage and made mostly from Aberdeen Angus Beef. They are made purely from meat. I myself are no too keen on them but they are very popular here in Scotland and often accompanied by black pudding or mealie pudding. Not a healthy option though.
2006-10-01 21:53:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nature of the casing is it's a tube. This won't break as easily as a sharply angled container. SO sausages are rounded, not squared off.
2006-10-02 03:04:38 · answer #6 · answered by howlettlogan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a good question. But the real reason is that sausages are different kinds of meat rounded together. However now that I think about it there are 'square' sausages. They are called Rissoles!!!
2006-10-01 21:50:16 · answer #7 · answered by henryinnis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a Square one in Scotland! Its called Lorne Sausage and comes in Slices. I have to say I have never eaten it - but its pretty popular, in a junk food kind of way.
2006-10-01 21:50:44 · answer #8 · answered by andruic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sausages were originally made using animal intestines (Some still are) which are long and tube shaped.
Square sausages will be harder to make so would cost more.
2006-10-01 21:55:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could make them as square meat patties but sausages are pig or beef intestines that have been stuffed with the various ground meat & spice mixtures.
2006-10-02 09:03:50 · answer #10 · answered by COACH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋