A Food Network show on sausages touched on this so I researched. Wondering if the Society will follow up on this obvious evil.
ORIGINS
The Hot Dog
By Charles Panati
Excerpted from "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
The history of the hot dog begins 3,500 years ago with the Babylonians, who stuffed animal intestines with spiced meats. Several civilizations adopted, modified, or independently created the dish; the Greeks called it orya, the Romans, salsus, the origin of our word "sausage".
The decline of the sausage preceded that of the Roman Empire. According the the oldest known Roman cookbook, written in AD 228, sausage was a favorite dish at the annual pagan festival Lupercalia, held February 15 in honor of the pastoral god Lupercus. The celebration included sexual initiation rites, and some writers have suggested that sausage served as more than just a food.
The early Catholic Church is known to have outlawed the Lupercalia a made eating sausage a sin. And when Constanine the Great, the 4th century emperor of Rome, embraced Christianity, he too, banned sausage consumption. As would happen in the twentieth century with liquor prohibition, the Roman populace indulged
in "bootlegged" sausage to such an extent that officials, conceding the ban was unenforceable, eventually repealed it.
YOU DECIDE BROTHERS AND SISTERS, YOU DECIDE!
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