187 New Pig Butchery in the Train Age - You SHOULD Know How the Sausage Gets Made

The History of American Food · Oct 21, 2026 · 31m

Thi week I argue that you should pay attention to how the sausage gets made. And not doing so resulted in the bland, mostly the same American sausages that ruled the 20th century... AKA the hot dog. This is mostly sad, but not too bad.

What was worse - making a joke about how bad sausage making was resulted in conditions that were so bad that people were getting sick and dying from sausage.

Very Bad,

But this did result in insituting food safety, That's Good.

However, becasue our food safety does the bare minimum... it results in lots of bland food. That we live with today.

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