This is a list of notable sausages. Sausage is a food usually made from ground meat with a skin around it. Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes synthetic. Some sausages are cooked during processing and the casing may be removed after. Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique. Sausages may be preserved.
Fermented sausage – a type of sausage that is created by salting chopped or ground meat to remove moisture, while allowing beneficial bacteria to break down sugars into flavorful molecules.
Many sausages do not have a unique name. E.g. "salchicha", "country sausage", etc.
Sausages with the same name in different countries may be identical, similar, or significantly different. This also applies to names with different spellings in different regions, e.g. lukanka, loukaniko; bloedworst, blutwurst. The chorizo of many South American countries is different from the Spanish chorizo.
Salumi are Italiancured meat products and predominantly made from pork. Only sausage versions of salami are listed below. See the salami article and Category:Salumi for additional varieties.
![Winter salami is a type of Hungarian salami[1] based on a centuries-old producing tradition.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Salami_aka.jpg/440px-Salami_aka.jpg)
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