• IninewCrow
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    5 days ago

    My favourite was hot dog and sausage vendors in big US cities, especially New York, in the early 1900s … they would take semi rancid meat, mix it with lye or some chemical to reduce the stench and bacteria, then mix it with red food colouring … a good batch was known as a mix that didn’t make that many people sick.