Talk:Sausage casing

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Unnecessary text

I intend to remove this section because I think it is unnecessary in this article:

"It is often assumed^{[by whom?]} that sausages were invented by the Sumerians in the region that is Iraq today, around 4000 BC. Reference to a cooked meat product stuffed in a goat stomach like a sausage was known in Babylon and described as a recipe in the world’s oldest cooking book 3750 years ago (Yale Babylonian collection, New Haven Connecticut, USA).

The Chinese sausage Làcháng, which consists of goat and lamb meat, was first mentioned in 589 BC. The Greek poet Homer mentioned a kind of blood sausage in his Odyssey (book 20, poem 25); Epicharmus (ca. 550 BC - ca. 460 BC) wrote a comedy entitled The Sausage. Numerous books report that sausages were already popular among the ancient Greeks and Romans".

It really belongs in Sausage. Biscuittin (talk) 08:32, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Biscuittin (talk) 08:36, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Done. --Macrakis (talk) 22:21, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this part (Natural Casings, Advantages, 1st paragraph) of the text is highly unnecessary, or at least incorrectly phrase and hugely biased, and should be removed:

"Natural casings have that unique natural curve and sheen that a real sausages should always have, with beautifully rounded ends where the sausage is linked giving the sausage an eye appeal that is unmatched by any artificial product in the world. When you bite into a natural casing sausage you will notice a wonderfully crisp snap, and then the casing simply disappears, and allows you to enjoy the flavors of the sausage." Megachad (talk) 18:56, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. LRT24 (talk) 00:23, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, done. --Macrakis (talk) 22:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This reader would like to know...

How do the calories compare between animal casings vs. manufactured casings? Theresestaublin (talk) 14:04, 26 September 2011 (UTC)Therese Staublin, Indianapolis, IN[reply]

Are there any edible plastic casings? 207.224.121.117 (talk) 02:43, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mesopotamian sausage making

The article says:

Reference to a cooked meat product stuffed in a goat stomach like a sausage was known in Babylon and described as a recipe in the world’s oldest cookbook 3,750 years ago.

but the citation is completely useless:

(Yale Babylonian collection, New Haven Connecticut, USA)

Even if the interested reader were willing to search the 45,000 items of the Yale Babylonian collection, they would still need to be able to read cuneiform to verify this claim.

I tried to verify this myself and was unable to. The best available source seems to be Bottéro, Jean (2004). The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia. University of Chicago Press.. I don't have a copy and the fragments I have been able to extract from Google Book Search have been insufficient. Bottéro was the discoverer and translator of the recipe tablets in the Yale collection.

I will mark this claim with {{citation needed}}; I leave this note in hopes of helping a future editor track down a reference.

—Mark Dominus (talk) 16:36, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I have removed the history section, which is a duplicate of that in the sausage article anyway. --Macrakis (talk) 22:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 16 April 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 17:40, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Casing (sausage) → Sausage casing – Avoid needless parentheses and use natural word order. "Sausage casing" is the usual name. 50.248.234.77 (talk) 03:22, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support sounds like a reasonable WP:NATURALDIS. -- Netoholic @ 09:03, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom and WP:NATURALDIS. Paintspot Infez (talk) 11:55, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:13, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. –Davey2010^Talk 18:08, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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