# Making Sausage

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-sausage/3563>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 1999, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-sausage/3563 "1999-09-27T20:46:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-sausage/3563/21 "1999-09-29T05:10:00Z")

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Here’s an answer to the age-old question: [“Where does bacon come from?”](http://www.theonion.com/onion2917/porkchart.html)

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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 1999, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-sausage/3563/22 "1999-09-28T20:09:00Z")

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## My mother used to work in a cookie factory. The guy who made the creme filling for their Oreo-like product used to stir a big kettle with a wooden paddle. It was hot. He was sweating. He didn’t wear a shirt. Drip. Drip. Drip. My mother still won’t eat creme-filled cookies.

“non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem”  
– William of Ockham

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-sausage/3563/23 "1999-09-29T02:18:00Z")

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Sweat in cookies? Assholes in sausage? Big deal! Do you have any idea what’s in a regular old t-bone steak? Or any meat?  
All kinds of neat stuff.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-sausage/3563/24 "1999-09-29T06:15:00Z")

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B\_Line12 - you mean you’re depriving yourself of steak and kidney pie? poor soul…

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