"Bent Attorney Esq." wrote:

>Big mistake was made by me last night. For lunch today, I just had a
>couple of Hillshire Farm Bratwurst(smoked). The level of sodium in
>there just freaked me out. Why all the sodium?
>I've been around sausage making since I was a baby, and we never
>sodiumed the sausage like these commercials do. We didn't even use
>any of the Prague cures(sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate).
>We never had any problems as far as spoilage went. The fresh sausage
>was pretty well eaten up on the night of the butchering(usually quite
>a few people around), and that which was left over was frozen. The
>other sausage went into a homebuilt smoker and cold smoked. All this
>sodium isn't neccessary. I suppose people really love their sodium.
>Here are the ingredients of this sausage:

The Big Mistake is that you were born, freaks like you shouldn't be
allowed anywhere near a kitchen,

I don't care how much time you claim to have spent around sausage (I
think you're lying, no, I'm positive you're lying), you know not a
whit about sausage.

You're mixing apples with oranges with bananas... fresh, cured, and
smoked sausage all require different preparations... and the
ingredients you listed mean nothing without quantities. Commercially
prepared sausage require a minimum sodium content to protect public
health... stores don't handle these items with the same care as
hopefully those who make their own at home. If your sausage was too
salty you should have simmered it to remove the excess sodium/fat, and
to kill pathogens... even the dumbest dago knows to simmer fresh
guinea wurst for a bit, then dump the filthy/fatty water before finish
cooking. You made up that fercocktah faggytale 'cause you're on a
salt police mission. Jerk!


>1. Pork
>2. Water
>3. Beef
>4. Corn Syrup
>5. Contains 2% or less of salt
>6. Sodium lactate
>7. Isolated soy product
>8. Dextrose
>9. Isolated soy protein
>10. Monosodium Glutamate
>11. Sodium Diacetate
>12. Ascorbic acid
>13. Natural Flavours(and what might those be?)
>14. Natural Spice
>15. Lemon juice powder
>16. (Corn syrup solids, lemon juice solids, lemon oil)
>17. Smoke
>18. Sodium nitrite
>19. Contains soy.
>They didn't taste smokey at all.