Common knowledge (aka "Google") tells us that sausages have been around for 2,500 years, mentioned in a Greek comedy, "Orya" ("The Sausage"), written by Epicharmus of (not Daily) Kos in 500 B.C. Even earlier than that, Homer mentioned a blood sausage in "The Odyssey." Fine and dandy, but this was a couple millennia before the essential machinery -- grinders and stuffers -- were invented. So how did they grind the meat and how did they get it into casings?


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