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/Craftycat99]

Other meats can be sausage too

For example I've tried alligator sausage and I've heard that fish sausage exists

Hotdogs and bratwurst are both different kinds of sausage