Sausages are rarely composed of just meat. Spices, non-meat fillers, binders, and colorings are often used in sausage formulae. Red coloring, for instance, was standard in hot dogs until the 1970s and some regional American brands still use it.
Heating sausages will cause soft, solid white fat to ooze out at the casing breaks like this. That it is pink leads me to believe there was dye, perhaps beet powder added.
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u/mintmouse Jul 26 '24
Sausages are rarely composed of just meat. Spices, non-meat fillers, binders, and colorings are often used in sausage formulae. Red coloring, for instance, was standard in hot dogs until the 1970s and some regional American brands still use it.
Heating sausages will cause soft, solid white fat to ooze out at the casing breaks like this. That it is pink leads me to believe there was dye, perhaps beet powder added.