Post #4142686
2026-07-20 15:51 UTC
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social
Interesting how saucisson is the modern French word for sausage, but is here listed as some kind of military equipment. Now I am curious to know more
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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social 2026-07-20 15:53
@AndorianSoup@mastodon.social And whether the rolled up gunpowder in cloth was named for the ground meat in skin, or vice versa? [edit] Ahh, from Latin "salsicus", cured with salt, via French, so they had sausages but named a military device after that. An earlier dictionary included an English language variant: Sawsidge, A Pudding made of Capons guts, Porke, and Spice, &c. [Cockeram, English Dictionarie, 1623]