# Links or Patties? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528 "2016-08-31T01:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/21 "2016-08-31T14:58:50Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > A properly cooked patty has lightly crunchy browned top and bottom that add flavor and texture components that I’ve never observed in a link. **A good link is wonderful, but a good patty is heavenly.** Emphasis added and wholeheartedly agreed with. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/22 "2016-08-31T15:00:28Z")
> [@appleaday](#): > > Links. Unless, of course, we’re making a breakfast sandwich. Or an Omelette. Sausage patties are easier to crumble up. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/23 "2016-08-31T16:08:10Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Or an Omelette. Sausage patties are easier to crumble up. Bulk breakfast sausage is easier yet. Don’t ruin perfectly-good preformed sausage to unform it! As to links v. patties: both, if the right ones prepared well. Neither, if the wrong sausages or ruined in the cooking. The best link sausages I ever had were in military food services (“chow hall”). Natural casing, browned all over, exceptional snap and awesome flavor. But that was decades ago now, so who knows about now? And concur with other comments upthread about patties being crisp-browned on the surfaces and still tender and flavorful in the middle. It takes attention and care to do that well, but so completely worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/24 "2016-08-31T16:14:36Z")
Yes, please 😃 If I had to pick one over the other, I’d go with links, especially with a nice brown slightly crisp casing that snaps when you bite into it. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/25 "2016-08-31T16:40:23Z")
Links, especially on the grill. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/26 "2016-08-31T18:18:54Z")
I wouldn’t kick either one out of bed. mmm ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/27 "2016-08-31T18:28:07Z")
We brown sausage and cook well. Sprinkle on 6 pieces of toast with thinly sliced cheddar cheese. Put under broiler for a minute or two. Its my family’s quick version of pizza. Makes a great meal when we’re too tired to cook. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/28 "2016-08-31T18:41:58Z")
Either one. Depends on what it’s being served with. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/29 "2016-08-31T18:44:10Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Once and for all, links or patties? > > Me? Links all the way. I like the peel of the skin against my teeth, and the taste of grease. Patties tend to be dry unless there’s an exceptional cook in the kitchen. > > Your choice? Yes, and for those reasons. But I like the skin, skinless "links’ are just odd shaped patties. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/30 "2016-08-31T20:09:09Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I like them both, but I generally prefer patties for the larger surface area you can brown. I assume we are talking only breakfast sausages here. That’s a very good point, and I’d probably prefer mediocre links to mediocre patties. McDonald’s sausage is kind of gray and soggy; I’d rather have a soggy link, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/31 "2016-08-31T20:45:16Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Sprinkle on 6 pieces of toast How does one “sprinkle toast”? I like both. All the time. So like with creamy and crunchy peanut butter I switch it up. Get one type one time and get the other the next time. ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/32 "2016-08-31T21:00:38Z")
Links, if its a natural casing. But I tend to gravitate towards patties. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/33 "2016-08-31T22:09:08Z")
Until about a year ago, it was links all the way. Then I started shaping and cooking my own patties. When I cook them, I use a higher heat and dryer cooking method, so that they come out dark brown and crispy on the edges and moist in the middle. I don’t know how most restaurants cook the patties. Boiling maybe? Microwave? If it’s limp, grey and overcooked, I want nothing to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/34 "2016-08-31T22:10:00Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > Until about a year ago, it was links all the way. > > Then I started shaping and cooking my own patties. When I cook them, I use a higher heat and dryer cooking method, so that they come out dark brown and crispy on the edges and moist in the middle. I am a links fan, but I’d try those! ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/35 "2016-09-01T05:13:23Z")
This is such an American question. There’s no such thing as “sausage patties” anywhere else. Those are rissoles. Or, I dunno, croquettes. Or even, heck, burgers. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/36 "2016-09-01T05:23:51Z")
[I](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/9148/products/pork_links_grande.jpg?v=1445885501) [really](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Lynx_lynx_poing.jpg) [really](http://blog.caranddriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1985-Mercury-Lynx-XR3-626x382.jpg) [like](http://www.anzor.com.au/exonet/image/chain_stainless_316.jpg) [links](http://www.link2ireland.com/images/courses/Old%20Head%20Golf%20Links/Gallery%20Images/Old%20head%20Golf%20Club%207th%20Hole.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/37 "2016-09-01T05:51:33Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > [I](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0880/9148/products/pork_links_grande.jpg?v=1445885501) [really](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Lynx_lynx_poing.jpg) [really](http://blog.caranddriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1985-Mercury-Lynx-XR3-626x382.jpg) [like](http://www.anzor.com.au/exonet/image/chain_stainless_316.jpg) [links](http://www.link2ireland.com/images/courses/Old%20Head%20Golf%20Links/Gallery%20Images/Old%20head%20Golf%20Club%207th%20Hole.jpg). oh yeah, and [links](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/38 "2016-09-01T13:06:01Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Once and for all, links or patties? Yes. With bacon on the side. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/39 "2016-09-01T13:45:40Z")
Links, if I had my druthers… but patties are fine, too. I loves me some sausage. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528/40 "2016-09-01T14:01:32Z")
Patties are far more preferable; I really don’t like biting into the casing on a link. Not that I’ll turn sausage of any form away. Mmmmmmmmm, piggy products \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-or-patties/764528.md?page=3)