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The Scots are geniuses of making ridiculous stuff seem awesome

i think that made sense back in the days, it made the food compact, better to heat up and its a good way to transport loose meat

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This,

The sausage as we know it is about 2000 years old, but it seems even the Sumerians used this preserving method. The first written mention is in Homer's Odysee and it was a common theatre food, called "Orya". And briefly sausages were even banned in Europe by the church.

It was hard to store smaller scraps of meat or more liquid parts like blood, so the just shoved them into a container that came with the animal, the intestines. Just made sense.

Though you guys would appreciate a short essay, instead of googeling around yourselves.

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I still can’t fathom the steps someone had to take to discover yogurt.

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Anything can sound crazy if you break it down into steps and describe those steps in the worst way possible.

At some point, people decided to grind up seeds, mix it with water, let it set for several days until fungus started to grow in it, then add more ground up seeds and water, add some sugar, let it set for a while again, mix it some more and then bake it for people to eat.

Thank you man who tried that weird shit... its still the same but with more pig face and no intestine (possibly). And I for one will take as many sausages in the mouth as I can take!

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This can apply to most foods. Hey guys look at this giant bug with claws we found while fishing. Quick boil it alive and dip it in melted butter. DE-LISH!

They didn’t have tv. That had a lot of time to fool around with stuff.

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It also uses up more of the animal, specifically the intestines and some of the loose bits of meat. It's sort of like figuring out how to make stock out of bone and cartilage. The less of an animal you waste, the better.

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Listened to an interview waaaay back with an anthropologist who theorised that sausage was the first "dish", as in a meal with multiple steps, not just "cut it up, throw it at heat".

As you said; t's a way to cook/transport all the little bits of meat that are stuck to bone and small organs, and could have been utilised long before the invention of utensils and bags.

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We should really award a posthumous Nobel prize to that person.

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Lots and lots of cultures came up with that, relatively independently. I just recently read the wiki entry on Sausages and this cool phrase stuck with me: "Sausage making is a natural outcome of efficient butchery"

At some point, someone took the flowers of a very unremarkable plant, dried them, then put them on fire, and then proceeded to do something that's totally against every fiber of human nature: INHALED THE SMOKE.

What’s the food?

Bread.

edit: specifically sourdough, btw

Get ready I’m gonna read the contents of my coke can