Dumb Plays in the Face of Fate
Put down that hot dog. It’s a crime and a sin. Well, it once was in the third century, the Catholic Church declared sausages a sin. A hundred years later, Constantine the Great, Rome’s Christian emperor, declared sausages illegal. Why? Because they were part of the lobertine rituals practiced at a pagan festival for the Roman god Lupercus. But the sausage prohibition didn’t work. Bootleg butchers continued to make sausages, and people ate them illegally behind closed doors. Eventually, the government gave up, and the sausage prohibition was repealed.
March 9th, 2005 at 11:07 am
I imagine that sausages back then were the full-blown, intestinal wrapped full meal deal. Doesn’t actually sound that appealing to me. Of course I like breakfast sausages and those little wedding wienies… oh and maybe a bratwurst. Hmmm, maybe I do like sausages. Still, better to partake only a few times a year.
March 9th, 2005 at 8:21 pm
Bacon UMM-UMM
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