Chipolata in the United Kingdom. They frequently appear as part of a Christmas dinner wrapped in streaky bacon as pigs in blankets. In Australia and New Zealand chipolatas are a type of breakfast sausage made from beef and lamb that can be fried, grilled or barbecued. A "garniture à la chipolata" consists of onions, chipolata sausages, chestnuts, salt pork, and sometimes carrots in a demiglace or Madeira sauce. Chipolata A chipolata () is a type of fresh sausage, likely created in France. Sausages by that name appear in the 1903 edition of Escoffier's "Le guide culinaire". Chipolatas are often prepared as
Affair of the Sausages Affair of the Sausages The Affair of the Sausages (1522) was the event that sparked the Reformation in Zürich. Huldrych Zwingli, pastor of Grossmünster in Zurich, Switzerland, spearheaded the event by publicly speaking in favor of eating sausage during the Lenten fast. Zwingli defended this action in a sermon called "Von Erkiesen und Freiheit der Speisen" (Regarding the Choice and Freedom of Foods), in which he argued, from the basis of Martin Luther's doctrine of "sola scriptura", that "Christians are free to fast or not to fast because the Bible does not prohibit the eating of meat during Lent." Ulrich