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Show Sausages Known to Greeks Sausage making did not, as many believe, originate in Germany, says a writer In the Milwaukee Jonrne!. Its reai beginning is unknown, hut by 500 B. C. sausage was gracing the tables of tlte Greek epicures. The "Diep-nosophists," "Diep-nosophists," I he oldest cook hook extant, ex-tant, which is dated 228 A. !.. explains ex-plains that sausages were prepared "with meat and blood and a great deal of seasoning." Kplcharmus, the Greek writer of comedies, mentions sausages, calling them oyrae. a name by which he even subtitles one of his plays, the "Orya." A little later, in 423 B. C Aristophanes says In his ;Jny, "The Clouds," "Let them make sausage of me and serve me up to the students.'' |