LISTENING IN ON MEDICAL DISCUSSIONS

The neurosurgeon on a conference call mentioned cerebellum. Which naturally prompted me to think of cerebrum, and immediately also saveloy. Which is a sausage available at British Fish and Chip shops. It's related to the low-Dutch and Belgian Servelaet, a similar sausage, small chopped pig meats and spices usually available at the local frietkot. The connection is that the word derives from Latinate cerebrus via cerebella. Pork salsiccia. The Italians have cervelatto. Of which one version is considered the Swiss national wurst. Usually written as servelat, derived from Milanese zervelada, a pork and brain sausage. There are many regionalisms from Northern Germany all the way down to the Mediterranean.

It is a priceless example of Britain's cultural splendour.
An heirloom to be passed on to generations.


Yeah, I've never had it.


So the next time I head over to England and the continent, I shall be on a mission.
There are mysterious things there that bear complete gustatory investigation.

One can learn a lot from listening to surgeons. I wonder how many variations there are in the old world of pork, porkfat, bacon, and smoke flavour stuffed into sausage skins. One can eat quite well in Switzerland, but one must bring one's own sambals, as the Swiss, unlike the Dutch, didn't have a colonial age and didn't romp around engaged in rape, pillage, and conquest. Leavened by developing a taste for chilipaste.

Alsatians eat such sausages split open after cooking, with cheese and bacon.
There, also, sambal is virtually unknown.
Sad.


Belgians would like to forget that they were right bastards as colonialists, and consequently do not have any sambal at all. Which is extremely odd. What on earth is wrong with them?



AFTERWORD NOT IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE FOREGOING

The apartment mate just spent an hour gleefully finding out about men doing stupid things in court, and also opening their traps when the wise choice would have been to keep silent and look like an innocent goober. Some of those examples, oh my! It always seems to be men. My gender is badly represented by all the rest of you. Please stop that.



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