Whats the Difference Between Irish and Polish Sausage?
What do I mean by “real higher education sausage?” I worked for several years during and after law school for a firm in downtown Detroit. The main waterfront public assembly there, Hart Plaza, was the venue for a summer-long series of cultural and ethnic fairs. There was the Italian Festival, the Spanish Festival, the Polish Festival, the German Festival, the African-American Festival, the Mexican Festival, and so forth. At each festival, booths sold “authentic” sausage sandwiches. The sausage was always the same sausage, no doubt due to economies of scale and to contracts vendors had with the city. But after walking over to 3-4 festivals at lunch, for more than a month or more, it got to be kind of depressing to realize that Irish sausage, Polish Sausage, and Mexican sausage (definitely not chorizo) were all the same sausage. There was a clear sense of fraud and a loss of legitimacy. I was so disappointed.
