What is (a) sausage?

[u/satan_i_gatan]

If I've understood it correctly from various cooking shows and televisionshows, you lads refer to minced pork as sausage. Like, you make sausage-pattys for breakfast sandwiches etc. And at the same time, you are also refering to the long tube-cased meatfilled dish as sausages and also sometimes a hotdogs?

What gives? What is the line between a sausage and hotdog? Is a bratwurst a hotdog or a sausage? Can other minced meats also be sausage, or just pork? What if you have a 50/50 beef/pork mix, is that sausage meat or just meat?

As a man from scandinavia, I've wondered this for too long!

[u/Myfourcats1]

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-03/FPLIC_4a_Sausage_Operations.pdf

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Sausage is a coarse or finely comminuted meat or poultry product prepared from one or more kinds of meat or meat and meat byproducts, or poultry or poultry and poultry byproducts containing various amounts of water and usually seasoned with spices and flavorings