Although the first steps of sausage making such as meat selection, curing, grinding, mixing and stuffing initially seem to be the same, under closer examination it becomes clear that they have to be finely tuned to new safety requirements.2012, Home Production of Quality Meats and Sausages, →ISBN, page 335:
A sausage stuffer is an essential tool for sausage making.2014, Ryan Farr -, Sausage Making: The Definitive Guide with Recipes, →ISBN, page 14:
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Lawmaking.
And as long as elected officials find it impossible to refocus public attention from sausage making to sausage tasting, they will be caught in a vicious circle in which looking good during the process becomes an all-consuming aspect of governance.2001, Thomas J. Volgy, Politics in the Trenches: Citizens, Politicians, and the Fate of Democracy, →ISBN, page 115:
James Wooten's book provides an excellent summary of the legislative “sausage making” and political gamesmanship during the development of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), an extremely important piece of legislation that hs touched millions of lives.2012, Sylvester J. Schieber, The Predictable Surprise: The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System, →ISBN:
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"I want to emphasize: Washington is so impersonal," she said. "Imagine your worst impression of what it would be like and then magnify that. It's removed. It's physically removed. You get caught up in the sausage making."2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, With love, joy, hate and despair, →ISBN, page 226:
sausage-making
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› Alternative form of sausagemaking.
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The manufacture of sausages.
Yet in Utica, New York, which has a strong Italian-American identity, families continue a tradition of dry-cured sausage-making brought over from southern Italy by their grand- and great-grandparents at the beginning of the twentieth century.2010, Naomi Guttman, Max Wall, “Sausage in Oil: Preserving Italian Culture in Utica, NY”, in Cured, Smoked, and Fermented: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery:
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Lawmaking.
Gingrich demonstrated his lack of "sausage-making" skills by taking actions that were detrimental to holding coalitions together.2001, Gregory Wawro, Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives, →ISBN:
While true, politics are an important part of our society, and thanks to C-SPAN, we can watch the sausage-making happen live.2012, Alison Dagnes, A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor, →ISBN, page xi: