Eating Raw Sausages?

saxonrosecliff

When I was a child my mum used to have to buy two packs of sausages whenever we were eating them for dinner so that we could all have a raw one (her and four children). I used to love them but haven't eaten one raw for years (that doesn't mean I'm not sometimes tempted though). None of us ever had any side effects from eating them.

jojo_2012_2

I used to eat raw bacon when I was a kid, I to this day do not know why I did it. Also hotdogs straight out the can. Don't think it'd do you any harm. Steak tartare?? Can't think of that without thinking of Mr Bean

Millie2008_2

Mum used to do this back in the 1950s when she was sent to the butchers for sausages (she'd pick at them on the way home). I must admit to feeling a bit bleugh when she told me!

wyebird

My grandma gave me one whne I was little (in the 70s) and my mum went mad ! My friend's brother eats them raw now...

ChazH

Raw skinless sausages... used to eat these when I was a teen. Wouldn't've touched the ones with skins on though... yuck!

Raw bacon though,,, mmmm, still do that sometimes. DELICIOUS!

mushy_pea

My dad would come home at christmas with a huge sausage, a bit like your forearm (he was a butcher).
My job would be to squeeze all the meat out so my mom could put it in the stuffing she used to make for the turkeys in the butchers shop. An awful lot was eaten by me whilst squeezing this out. Never ill.

And I've never suffered after eating sweets that fell on the floor or licking the bowl either!

In fact, when I was a kid, the only time I remembered to be worried about germs was when we passed a bottle of pop round a group of friends! Luckily all microbes were removed with a quick wipe of the thumb around the lid!

geordie_joe

moonrakerz wrote: »

Stone Age man discovered, thousands of years ago, that meat tastes better and the human body digests it much more efficiently if it is cooked.

You have no way of knowing that. They may just have discovered that it doesn't go off as quick if it is cooked. They may have preferred the taste of raw meat, but put up with cooked meat because it lasts longer.

Just look at the way people cook beef these days, they take pride in saying "a good vet could revive that". If they really did prefer the taste of cooked meat they would cook it all the way through, and not just the outside.

As for discovering cooked meat was digested more efficiently, I doubt they had the skills to do that.

moonrakerz wrote: »

What does that say about people who, in this day and age, eat raw sausages ?? Ugh, Ugh !

It says they are normal, just doing what nature intended them too. Just like when they eat raw fish.

lindos90

I used to make the stuffing for my mum when I was little, a couple of sausages, breadcrumbs, chopped onion and sage. I loved mixing it up and having a taste before it was cooked, although my mum didnt encourage me and said 'dont eat too much or you will get worms!' I found it quite nice (especially as I wasnt supposed to!)

EssexGirl

DH's elderly great aunt used to eat raw sausages. We'd go to the fridge for milk for a cuppa and find half eaten raw sausages. Yuk! She lived into her late 80's so it can't have done her much harm.

molerat

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

ewwwww - raw sausages - it's just wrong IMO!!!!

When I lived in Germany in the early 80's in the area I lived I often saw kids in prams eating a piece of "fette speck" - it was a piece of raw pork fat with a rind on it. Apparantly it was good for you!! You could buy it in the sausage shops (of which there were many!), they also sold sausages which were made with smoked and/or raw meat but generally they were more like pepperami type sausages, than the ones we have here.

They also had back-to-front toilet pans :eek: