" Agoracritus " is also a character ( the sausage seller ) in Greek playwright Aristophanes ' play The Knights.

Short summary: A sausage seller, Agoracritus, vies with Cleon for the confidence and approval of Demos (' The People ' in Greek ), an elderly man who symbolizes the Athenian citizenry.

On reading these stolen oracles, they learn that Cleon is one of several peddlers destined to rule the polis and that it is his fate to be replaced by a sausage seller.

As chance would have it, a sausage seller passes by at that very moment, carrying a portable kitchen.

The sausage seller is not convinced at first but Demosthenes points out the myriads of people in the theatre and he assures him that his skills with sausages are all that is needed to govern them.

There follows a shouting match between Cleon and the sausage seller with vulgar boasts and vainglorious threats on both sides as each man strives to demonstrate that he is a more shameless and unscrupulous orator than the other.

Returning to the stage, the sausage seller reports to the knights on his battle with Cleon for control of the Council-he has outbid Cleon for the support of the councillors with offers of meals at the state's expense.

The sausage seller accepts the challenge.

Cleon loses the debate but he doesn't lose hope and there are two further contests in which he competes with the sausage seller for Demos's favour-a ) the reading of oracles flattering to Demos ; b ) a race to see which of them can best serve pampered Demos's every need.

The sausage seller wins each contest by outdoing Cleon in shamelessness.

Cleon makes one last effort to retain his privileged position in the household-he possesses an oracle that describes his successor and he questions the sausage seller to see if he matches the description in all its vulgar details.

The sausage seller does match the description.

Demos asks the sausage seller for his name and we learn that it is Agoracritus, confirming his lowly origin.

Within the satirical context, he is a sausage seller who must overcome self-doubts to challenge Cleon as a populist orator, yet he is a godlike, redemptive figure in the allegory.

He demonstrates miraculous powers in his redemption of The people and yet it was done by boiling, a cure for meat practised by a common sausage seller.

Paphlagonian is a monstrous giant ( 74-9 ), a snoring sorcerer ( 103 ), a mountain torrent ( 137 ), a hook-footed eagle ( 197 ), garlic pickle ( 199 ), a mud-stirrer ( 306 ), a fisherman watching for shoals of fish ( 313 ), a butchered pig ( 375-81 ), a bee browsing blooms of corruption ( 403 ), a dog-headed ape ( 416 ), a storm by sea and land ( 430-40 ), a giant hurling crags ( 626-29 ), a storm surge at sea ( 691-93 ), a thieving nurse ( 716-18 ), a fishermen hunting eels ( 864-67 ), a boiling pot ( 919-22 ), a lion fighting gnats ( 1037-8 ), a dogfox ( 1067 ), a beggar ( 182-3 ) and finally a sausage seller in the city gates ( 1397 ).

The play's focus on food and drink is evident in the choice of a sausage seller as the protagonist.

Anton Ludwig Feuchtwanger, a Bavarian sausage seller, is said to have served sausages in rolls at the World's Fair – either the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago or the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis – again allegedly because the white gloves he gave to customers so that they could eat his hot sausages in comfort began to disappear as souvenirs.

This is suggested by a passage in one of Alciphron's letters ( 3: 44 ), and some remarks by the sausage seller in Aristophanes ' play, The Knights.

The sausage is produced in a rectangular block and individual portions are sliced off.

The biggest volume of collagen casings are edible, but a special form of thicker collagen casings is used for salamis and large caliber sausages where the casing is usually peeled off the sausage by the consumer.

* A male " sausage fly ", ready to have its wings torn off and carried to a queen for mating

Some cultures consume blood, sometimes in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, or in a cured, salted form for times of food scarcity, and others use blood in stews such as jugged hare.

These stretched rocks can also pinch into lenses, known as boudins, after the French word for " sausage ", because of their visual similarity.

The noodles are the main ingredients for japchae ( a salad-like dish ), and sundae ( a blood sausage ) or a subsidiary ingredient for soups and stews.

Wisconsin is also well known for summer sausage and brats.

It is rare for Punch to hit his baby these days, but he may well sit on it in a failed attempt to " babysit ", or drop it, or even let it go through a sausage machine.

Pork drippings from frying sausage, bacon, and other types of pan-fried pork are typically collected and used for making gravy and in greasing cast-iron cookware.

Kansas City-style barbecue is characterized by its use of different types of meat ( including pulled pork, pork ribs, burnt ends, smoked sausage, beef brisket, beef ribs, smoked / grilled chicken, smoked turkey, and sometimes fish ), a variety attributable to Kansas City's history as a center for meat packing in the US.

The isolate was originally named Bacillus botulinus, after the Latin word for sausage, botulus.

Since the 1970s, many Greek immigrants have entered the business ; as a result, gyros and souvlaki meats are now a common part of the repertoire, often served as a side dish with breakfast and as a replacement for bacon or sausage.

The word is used also as a modifier in this way for a range of other similar meals, such as a " sausage supper ", " pastie supper ", " haggis supper " and indicates the presence of chips.

* Embotits, a generic name for different kinds of cured pork meat, including Fuet ( a characteristic type of dried sausage ) and Salchichón or Llonganissa ( salami ).

* Vegetarian sausage refers to sausages made without meat, for example, with soya protein or with tofu or with herbs and spices.

Germany, for instance, which boasts more than 1200 types of sausage, distinguishes raw, cooked and precooked sausages.

Although Japan is not traditionally known for beef, pork, venison, or even blood sausages, the Japanese do consume a fish-based log called kamaboko, which could be considered a type of " sausage.

In many areas, " sausage meat " for frying and stuffing into poultry and meat is sold as slices cut from an oblong block of pressed meat without casing: in Scotland this is known as Lorne Sausage or often sliced sausage or square sausage, while the usual form is sometimes called sausage links.

Loukaniko is the common Greek word for pork sausage, but in English it refers specifically to Greek sausages flavored with orange peel, fennel seed and other herbs.

As no collective word for " sausage " in the English sense exists in Hungarian, local salamis ( see e. g. winter salami ) and boiled sausages " hurka " are often not considered when listing regional sausage varieties.

Sausage without casing is called " sausage meat " and can be fried or used as stuffing for poultry, or for wrapping foods like Scotch eggs.

In early 2011, Falls Brands ' Old Fashioned Basque Chorizo sausage won the " Hold The Mustard " award presented by the National Meat Association ( NMA ) every year during their annual, " NMA Annual Gourmet Sausagefest.

" He therefore responded in kind in Have With You To Saffron-Walden ( 1596 ) with various observations on Barnes: he was a bad poet, he had dreadful dress sense (..." getting him a strange pair of Babylonian britches, with a codpiece as big as a Bolognian sausage ...") and had been a coward on the field of battle during the wars in France.

According to a myth, the use of the complete phrase " hot dog " in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius " TAD " Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds.

To prevent splitting during grilling or pan frying, an X is cut into the ends of the sausage.

The ends open during cooking, but the rest of the sausage remains intact, giving it its traditional shape.

* weselna, " wedding " sausage, medium thick, u-shaped smoked sausage ; often eaten during parties, but not exclusively

Versions of brawn ( often served on rye bread as an open sandwich with garnish of dijon mustard and pickled beetroot ) and blood sausage ( served pan-fried with muscovado ) are eaten mainly during wintertime, e. g. as part of the traditional Danish Christmas lunch or " julefrokost ".

On July 9, 2003, during the Milwaukee Brewers ' " Sausage Race ," in which four contestants wearing sausage costumes have a footrace on the field, Simon leaned over the dugout railing and hit college student Mandy Block ( in the Italian sausage costume ) with a bat, causing her to fall into the path of another racer.

* A sausage, usually pork and of a lower quality, with a tendency to split open with a " bang " during frying.

This refers to the swelling of the sausage during cooking, so that the skin becomes pressurized and balloon-like, and tends to " pop ," often exploding the juices, when bitten into.

Most of the 24-hour stands ( such as the original Express Grill and its neighboring competition, Jim's Original ) also serve the pork chop sandwich popularized alongside the Polish sausage sandwich during the days of the old Maxwell Street market.

Temperature is an important part of the process: if the temperature rises above 60 degrees for pork or 70 degrees for beef, the emulsion will not hold and fat will leak from the sausage during the cooking process.

Sugar is added to aid the bacterial production of lactic acid during the 18-hour to three-day fermentation process ; the fermentation time depends on the temperature at which the sausage is stored: the lower the temperature, the longer the required fermentation period.

A white mold and yeast normally adheres to the outside of the sausage during the drying process.