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My mom used to make pancakes and slice up little smokies in them on the griddle so when you went to take a bite you were in for a surprise. They were very yummy!

A few years ago I worked in a food and beverage research and development agency, where we ran market research taste tests with different focus groups. One group was for a well known sausage company that wanted some feed back for how their italian sausage compared with other national brands.

There was a two day long tasting with 6 focus groups w/ 6-8 people in them each day. I got to work in the kitchen -- cooking sausage for these multiple taste tests. All in all, we cooked probably close to 100 pounds of sausage for all the focus groups and we had trays upon trays of sausage in the walk in fridge.

After dealing with SO much sausage, I think my favorite part was all the rediculous (and usually inappropriate) kitchen humour my coworkers were spouting about sausage. I mean how seriously can you take it when you have to be analyzing, handling, cooking, sampling and plating sausage after sausage?

Also, after the taste tests were done there were like 50 packages of uncooked sausage left over so I ended up taking home a tote bag o' sausage and freezing them so I could have sausage forever.

The first time my husband had to do overtime on the weekend he took some sausages and baked beans to heat up in the microwave. We didn't have one ourselves so he wasn't entirely sure how to do it.

Long story short: He placed the sausages and beans on a plate and put them in the microwave, turned it on and stood back.....and watched the whole thing explode! [it was an industrial microwave].

The sausages split down the middle and writhed around the plate as if they were in agony and the beans pinged around inside the oven!

lt took him half an hour to clean it up.

Oh, how we laughed.

Sausage is good.