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[PTRACER]

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Name an official sausage without a skin. And I'm not talking about Harvey Levin here.

[kals]

That is a silly request but I'm intrigued by this, where did you learn this? If it is true then it is a great fact.

I've spent 3 years in culinary school, another 5 years working in professional kitchens and managing catering establishments. And I've never heard this before.

What confuses me is that if I go to the supermarket and buy a pack of sausage meat, take it home and shape that sausage meat into thin (or thick, whatever your taste) cylindrical shapes, can I not call them sausages as they've not got a skin?

I'm now going to consult my Delia Smith, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and other various chefs books to check on this.

[PTRACER]

It's also deep-fried, sausages are not deep-fried.

A Dutch person told me it's not a sausage. Wikipedia says it's not a sausage.

[kals]

Who says sausages aren't deep fried?

Of the multiple quotes I posted earlier, one of those was from wiki. Tobias once told me that frikandel was a sausage.

Anyway, this is detracting from you saying a sausage isn't a sausage unless it has a casing.

[PTRACER]

Can we just end this now? We're arguing over whether a sausage-shaped meat product from the Netherlands is a sausage or not. A DUTCH PERSON told me it is not a sausage. This is substantiated by:

Due to the absence of skin, one could argue that it technically is not a sausage.

Therefore Wikipedia is inferring that a sausage is only a sausage if it has a skin. A translation of the Dutch Wikipedia page, which has a comprehensive history on frikandellen, says it's basically a flattened meatball.

[kals]

LOL I know, but this is an interesting and very different discussion.

Plus, I see your wiki quote and raise you this one...

Some forms of sausage, such as sliced sausage, are prepared without a casing.

vhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage

[PTRACER]

LOL I know, but this is an interesting and very different discussion.

Plus, I see your wiki quote and raise you this one...

Some forms of sausage, such as sliced sausage, are prepared without a casing.

vhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage

Are you saying Wiki is contradicting itself? You'll go to hell for your sin.

[kals]

I know, who'd have thought?

Plus, I'm a chef.

[PTRACER]

I know, who'd have thought?

Plus, I'm a chef.

I'm a chef as well, we just follow different interpretations of the same recipe.

[kals]

Your mum cooking your tea each night doesn't count lol