Contrary to popular belief, not all weird game meat tastes like chicken. Sometime it tastes like cow. Exhibit A: the reindeer sausage at Chicago’s wacky suburban sausage emporium Fredhots and Fries. A couple of years ago, owner Fred Markoff introduced an Alaskan reindeer sausage topped with grilled onion and mustard, Maxwell polish-style (a polish sausage in lieu of the reindeer makes it a classic Maxwell). As with most extreme food related ideas, say Kobayashi throwing down 40 pounds of encased animal parts at the Nathan’s Famous dog contest, burning folks' tastebuds off with the hottest wings ever, or deep-frying Twinkies, the media stumbled over themselves to cover the moment. There was a whole spate of twisted fathers scarring their... More

For dexterous hands, illustrator Jason Shogreen takes the Bloods gang sign one step further with this "blood sausage" gang sign. [via Eat Me Daily]... More

Hypothetical conversation between watercolors, pastels, and sausage: Watercolors and pastels (to sausage): You think you can be part of the art community? You think you have what it takes? Sausage: Yes. Watch me. I'll go do it in Russia. And that's just what happened. We weren't sure if we had covered this before, but then realized, we had just covered many other instances of meat artwork. Previously Meat Paintings Photo of the Day: Meatscapes Amazing Charcuterie Floor 'Pig Meets Its Potential'... More

Photograph by 2wenty5ifthfloor on Flickr Unfortunately it's not real sausage, because that would be messy. A fake sausage foosball table is still pretty good. The "Sausage vs. Sausage" custom foosball table is the genius creation of Red Tettemer, a Philadelphia-based advertising agency, for client Hatfield Quality Meats in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Twisting plastic meat tubes for the win sure makes me want to eat real meat tubes! Very effective marketing.... More

Fresno County authorities arrested a man they say broke into the home of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with an eight-inch sausage before fleeing.... More

Photograph from Tavie on Flickr Thanks to this Jack Sparrow-themed salami stick, we now have so many new, uncomfortable ways to use the words "sausage" and "Johnny Depp" in the same sentence. For sale at Disneyland Tokyo, this product inspires jokes that probably aren't appropriate for the little ones there to see Mickey. [via Boing Boing]... More

The awesomeness of La Mariposa's photo of a sausage mountain is that, juxtaposed with the people in the background, the sausages look freakin' huge.... More

Photograph courtesy The Meatwave In these heady days when people are making bacon-based bacon cheeseburgers, bacon mats, and bacon salt, you can add another to the list: bacon-cheeseburger sausage.... More

The sausages listed on dry-sausage.com mostly have normal sausage titles: natural dry sausage, smoked dry sausage, dry sausage with hazelnut, Baby Jésus of Lyon...wait, what? Yes, they have a sausage called Baby Jésus of Lyon, whose description doesn't sound quite as interesting as its name. However, the name is enough to pique my interest in this member of the sausage world. There's probably history behind the name, but it also sounds like good marketing, unless you are put off by food named after Baby Jesus.... More