Originally Posted by bhutocracy

If you buy sausages from a supermarket or butchers - and i'm talking where you ask for a certain lb amount and they wrap it for you, not just the shrink wrapped stuff - unless it's specially made gourmet ones, or you make them yourself, they have filler, cereal mainly although I'm sure it differs. My grandfather used to have a pig farm and made sausages and whatnot.. it's just the way it is... do you even know how sausages are made? I've made blood sausage by hand.. it's mostly rice and pigs blood although you can use barley, oats etc. The only sausages that don't have filler are your heavy european style ones.. Bratwurst etc. Sure's it's probably not half and half but you'll find there is normally about 30% filler in any anglo sausages you buy.