WHAT A SAUSAGE IS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 2 June 1919, Page 8

WHAT A SAUSAGE IS.

There are tn bo no more C 3 sausages, writes a Daily Chronicle representative. The Food Ministry, in association with going thoroughly into the sausage problem to discover the best methods of ascertaining the contents of this popular delicacy. During the early days of tiie food shortage sausages were mobilised, so to speak, and were graded in accordance with their fitness for the public service. Tims there was an AX sausage, which had to possess 67 per cent, of meat; a HI sausage, which bad to contain 50 per cent.; and a C 3 sausage containing no meat at all except that minced tin from coupon-free edible offal. Anything worse titan that was rejected as permanently and totally unfit.

The trouble has been, however, that in spite of its popularity tho sausage has always remained raox-o or loss of a mystery. The ordinary individual might Ko forth in search of AX sausages and ho fobbed off with the C 3 variety without being any the wiser. But the Food Ministry is now finding a way by which tho percentage of moat in sausages of all grades can ge ascertained sufficiently correctly to place the grade of any one of them, on examination, beyond all dispute. It is assorted that tho chief ingredient of sausages, apart, from meat, is bread. But seasoning plays a big part, ami of this there are something like 90 different varieties.