The Humble sausage or Banger as the British have fondly named it is eaten and enjoyed by millions worldwide but sometimes people do more with sausages than just eat them maybe some days you want to look at one in a museum or use it to challenge your greatest foe to a duel sound far-fetched well today we're gonna take a look at some meaty things you didn't know about sausage [Music] before we get started be sure to subscribe to the weird history Food Channel and after that please leave a comment let us know what other Foods you
would like to hear about okay time to grind out some weird history [Music] we're talking about a calculated risk but we've never shut down the entire system before it may not come back on at all sometime sometimes something really in a desperate position and it works for example when he was about to be smoked in a duel like so much sausage a man named Rudolph verchow used sausage in a threatening Manner and it may actually have saved his life yeah we're gonna need to explain that one so here goes Otto van Bismarck was a Prussian
Statesman who dominated European affairs from about 1860 to 1890 but in 1865 virchow a pesky scientist and opposition politician had challenged bismarck's Authority by protesting against his excessive military budget and virchow was a careful informidable man when he investigated a typhus outbreak he conducted a statistical analysis of who became ill and where they lived he also collected details on their education income housing conditions and a host of other factors including do they visit typhus R Us lately after much serious analysis virchow concluded that the spread of typhus was caused by overcrowding overcrowding is a symptom
of poverty which virtual sensibly attributed to limited education opportunities and in the end he laid the ultimate blame on a failure of democracy in a Germany led by Otto van Bismarck not being the kind of guy who took criticism particularly well Bismarck challenged virchow to a duel this was bad for Virgil because Bismarck was a crack shot and virchow's knowledge of pistols was shaky at best oh great real bullets like I saw a picture of a gun one time levels of knowledge that being said he was still a pretty smart guy and he had access
to sausages details are sketchy but several biographies relate that virchow being the challenged party was entitled to choose the weapons for the duel and that he prepared two sausages to be used for the event one sausage was normal and the other while appearing identical was loaded with deadly trichinella larva Bismarck was to choose a sausage and eat it and vercha would eat the remaining sausage with his cunning sausage strategy virchow had raised his survival chances to an even 50 Bismarck perhaps reluctantly withdrew his challenge maybe he was more of a brat guy some people love
to eat slowly and Savor their meal like a fine wine while others like to inhale their food as quickly as possible like a garbage disposal with a bunch of errands to run the latter is usually seen as a social faux pas but if you're seeking fame and fortune you might at least want to consider learning to stuff your face with sausage we are referring of course to the world record for the most sausages eaten in one minute the current record holder is Leah shotkeeper of Birmingham in the United Kingdom who ate an impressive 10 sausages
in 60 seconds in June of 2020. that's a complete sausage every six seconds all subsequent attempts to beat this record have failed miserably hey no one said being a famous athlete was easy it takes hard work determination and lots and lots of sausages [Music] in 2000 working on behalf of Asda stores J J tranfield of Sheffield in the United Kingdom set the record for making the world's longest sausage the work took three days to complete and the final product was 36.75 miles long which is to say that in a normal walking pace it would take
you 20 hours to walk from one end of it to the other man we're gonna need like miles of sauerkraut the Sheffield sausage held the record for several years but the record now belongs to a Romanian sausage that measured 38.99 miles long in 2014. the Guinness Book of World Records for what it's worth distinguishes between the world's largest sausage based on weight and based on length and there are also other variations such as the longest smoked sausage the longest sausage chain and the longest vegetarian sausage also known as the huge waste of time thank you
[Music] the very latest in must-see museums can be found in Berlin where typical takeout food is currywurst a pork sausage served with spicy curried ketchup this popular sausage has a fascinating history and since 2009 tourists have been able to learn every delicious fact at the currywurst Museum the sausage museum is fully interactive in a sails all the senses there's a spice chamber sniffing stations and a sausage sofa in the middle of a saw stream where one manned old and gigantic fries and of course samples of Curry burst so kind of like Willy Wonka's Sausage Factory
maybe that's what happens to the Oompa Loompas when they get too old to work there are exhibits detailing all sorts of things about currywurst including where the sausage is sold from Street vendors to the counters of clubs and bars and you can learn about the origin of spices matched to particular types of sausage as well as eating habits biodegradable disposable tableware and how film and television has portrayed this legendary Berlin specialty who knew one tube of meat carried so much esteem whether you are a sausage novice or a big time sausage expert the museum is
definitely worth a look no word on whether the sausages come to life at night like in that Ben Stiller movie [Music] who doesn't love a good barbecue it's a great way to entertain friends share a meal and drink entirely too much beer in a single hour and uninvited guests are often welcome even when that guest is a bird looking for a free handout in Australia that bird is often a meat eating kookaburra this weird creature looks something like an oversized Kingfisher but is probably best known for its call which sounds like human laughter it presumably
knows this and is doing it on purpose in 2010 an injured kookaburra was taken to taronga zoo in Sydney although it was initially assumed that the bird had a broken wing further investigation revealed that the cookie weighed a hefty 19 ounces or 40 percent heavier than normal in other words it had simply become too chunky to fly after loading up on too many free sausage barbecue handouts and had to be rescued from some dogs because it couldn't get away from them Zoo officials described the problem as people killing creatures with kindness this particular bird was
put on a sausage-free diet to shed the excess weight so it could eventually learn to fly again but we can only assume it missed lazing around at barbecues and cramming its beak full of sausage after all once you've developed a taste for Jimmy Dean what are you supposed to do go back to bird seed nope I'd rather get eaten by dogs than do that did you ever read Harry Potter and find yourself wishing that Hogwarts was a trade school for sausage ears well that's bizarrely specific but you dreamers are in luck Germany opened a sausage
Academy in 2010 where students may earn a certificate in their favorite meaty treat the sausage school was based in newmarkt and offered the opportunity for people to become sausage experts knowledgeable about the ideal loggers mustards and music to best accompany different varieties of sausage yes music you have to sing to your rocks if you want them to reach their full potential like a houseplant if houseplants were a pizza topping dedicated students could even take a master's course in Germany's Holy Grail of sausage the Bavarian white please folks try to contain yourselves it's unclear whether regular
free samples to students were a major reason for enrolling but over time the school welcomed thousands of students who each earned certificates who knew in education could be so spicy thank you conquering addiction is one of the most difficult things a person can do it takes a tremendous amount of insight and willpower to confront an addiction and make changes to turn your life around and The Lure of vices can run deep vices like eating sausage believe it or not that's not a joke in 2011 a man named David Harding came out as being hopelessly addicted
to sausages and while it's admittedly hard to read that sentence without giggling parting sausage dependence was a serious problem just like any food addiction he claimed he often required urgent counseling to save him from the dire consequences of sausage abuse like many addicts Harding kept a stockpile of his forbidden fix stashed in his freezer the precaution mostly kept his withdrawal symptoms at Bay but when his stock ran low he flew into panic mode and according to Harding he genuinely couldn't bear the thought of living without sausages determined to slay his demons Harding spent thousands of
dollars to treat his addiction his psychiatrist was of the opinion that the addiction wasn't physical but that didn't change the fact that the man could seem to stop eating sausages brother we've all been there foreign s that probably don't need to be gendered foodstuffs probably top the list after all Coca-Cola doesn't make different varieties of coke for men and women uh unless you count tab a McDonald's gives the same kind of hamburger to everyone regardless of who orders it so surely there's no need for his and her sausages right well the German edica supermarket chain
didn't agree and back in 2013 it started selling male and female sausages to its customers if you're wondering what the advantage of selling gender-specific sausage might be the only clear answer seems to be milking people out of money for example the frown or female sausages were half the size of the Mena or male counterparts but also more expensive meanwhile the Mena sausages were made with lower Quality Meat in other words it was equally insulting to everyone foreign now it's time to address the weirdest looking sausage on the planet the haired sausage yes we know keep
the jokes to yourself first made in Russia the odd and relatively hard to look at new dish became popular after Russian bloggers began to spread the word about the fursuit meet online who invented the hairy sausage is unknown but we do know how it's made and you'll be delighted to learn it's not made with actual hair it's concocted by sticking lengths of hard spaghetti into a sausage making it look somewhat like a hedgehog this marvelous gastronomic Masterpiece is then boiled in water and voila you've got yourself a hot hairy sausage to eat the hairy sausage
has generated a good deal of excitement online and it's surely only a matter of time before all of us find this Shaggy delicacy on our respective plates wait is that a good thing or a bad thing and maybe it can be both so what do you think which of these sausage facts did you find the tastiest let us know in the comments below and while you're at it check out some of these other videos from our weird history [Music] thank you [Music]
