Matthew Malthouse > wrote:

> (Victor Sack) wrote:
> >
> > "Bulk sausage" is utter nonsense and a totally unnecessary one, too.
> > The "term" was probably first used by someone with a limited knowledge
> > of both English and cooking (and it was surely the very same harmful
> > drudge who started to use "hamburger" in a similar sense). "Sausage" is
> > defined by its casings.
>
> Except where it is caseless. cf Scottish lorne sausage:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliced_sausage

There are some such oddities, but they are not sausages; they are just
so named. It is perhaps fitting that Lorne sausage is taken to have
been "invented" by a comedian. It is actually closer to a kind of meat
loaf.

Victor