eating a sausage without a piece of bread

[JACEK1]

Hello everybody!

People in Poland like eating sausage very much. We often make sausage sandwiches and eat them for breakfast or for supper. Sometimes a sausage is so tasty and we are so hungry that we decide to eat a sausage on its own rather than making ourselves a few sausage sandwiches.

I have been wondering how to say that someone should eat bread and sausage.

A: You are eating a chunk of sausage again. How many times must I tell you that eating a sausage on its own is wrong. One should always eat a chunk of sausage with a piece of bread.

B: I am really sorrry. I was so hungry that I could not resist taking a bite of the sausage.

What do you think of the dialogue that I made up? Please pay attention to what A said.

 

[GoesStation]

They're okay. I sympathize with B, though. I've often made a near-meal of a chunk of kabanos.

 

[JACEK1]

I agree. Kabanos are delicious. They make your mouth water. Does "making a near-meal of a chunk of kabanos" mean "snacking on a chunk of kabanos" or "eating them between main meals"?

 

[GoesStation]

"Snacking on a chunk of kabanos" is pretty close, but it would be a big snack.

 

[tedmc]

I don't think there are hard and fast rules for eating sausages, so "wrong" is probably not the appropriate word.
How about: Sausages are best eaten sandwiched in bread. (which is the same to me as hot-dogs).

 

[emsr2d2]

A sausage sandwich and a hot dog are not the same thing in the UK.

These are hot dogs.
These are sausage sandwiches.

The (usually) meat-based thing in a hot dog is a frankfurter. It's served specifically in a hot dog bun (long and torpedo-shaped). A sausage sandwich would be at least two sausages (meat or vegetarian) between two slices of bread.

 

[SoothingDave]

Interesting. I would only do that (eat on bread) if I didn't have a proper sausage roll (bun).

At a bakery you find, increasing in size, hot dog, sausage, and then hoagie/sub rolls.

 

[Skrej]

I don't really consider hot dogs sausages, either.

To me, any kind of sausage has at least some seasoning, if not also some curing, whereas hotdogs/frankfurters are really just unseasoned, uncured tubular meat (often vague in nature).

 

[Tarheel]

It's odd to me that people in Poland are expected to wrap their sausages in bread. Here we often have egg with sausage or pancakes with sausage. We use a fork to eat the sausage.

 

[SoothingDave]

Hot dogs have seasoning. It's mild, but it's not non-existent.

 

[Tarheel]

I put mustard on my hot dogs.

 

[SoothingDave]

Yes, they take to various condiments very well. My point was that they are not unseasoned.

 

[Yankee]

It's odd to me that people in Poland are expected to wrap their sausages in bread. Here we often have egg with sausage or pancakes with sausage. We use a fork to eat the sausage.

Suggest you use your favorite search engine for "Sausage & Peppers on a Roll" …...and try not to let your mouth water.

 

[jutfrank]

I would only do that (eat on bread) if I didn't have a proper sausage roll (bun).

(At the risk of confusing this delicious thread), this is what I think of as a sausage roll:



Jacek—I must admit that I too am more than partial to nibbling on delicious Polish sausages, most often very late at at night. I can't immediately see how they might be improved by a bready accompaniment, but I'm open to persuasion. Why is eating them without bread considered wrong?

 

[jutfrank]

How do you make a Swiss roll?

 

[emsr2d2]

Push him down a hill!! :-D

 

[jutfrank]

Push him down a hill!! :-D

Mountain, actually. ;-)

 

[Yankee]

What has happened to this bread, I mean thread? :shock:

 

[jutfrank]

What has happened to this bread, I mean thread? :shock:

Leave us be—we're on a roll.

(Unlike Jacek's sausage.)

 

[JACEK1]

I don't claim that everybody in Poland eats sausages in their hands, without using fork and knife. We do eat them from our plates as do people in other countries but sometimes, out of laziness, we like to reach for a sausage in the fridge and eat it unaccompanied by bread. There is nothing wrong with eating sausages on their own. I grew up eating plenty of sausages in childhood.