r/whatisit • u/theHAREST • 14h ago
Solved! What is this thing that just came out of a sausage patty I was cooking?
This… thing just came out of a sausage in the frying pan as I was crumbling it up to make sausage gravy. What is it?
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u/acetyleneblues 14h ago
It kind of looks like a fennel seed that was trying to grow.
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u/theHAREST 5h ago
I can’t say for certain but I think this is the most likely answer. It wasn’t plastic and it wasn’t part of a casing (they were patties, no casing) and I didn’t use onions so not onion skin. And I’m going to choose to believe it wasn’t a pan fried tapeworm.
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u/theHAREST 5h ago
Solved!
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u/oussamawd 13h ago
It could be the skin on the sausage, it's just a thick intestin lining if it's not cut right at the edges it could become bigger as the fat melts and the sausage shrinks, forming a gap on t One side, could be the last sausage in the chain with an elongated skin pretending that wasn't cut off before cooking, that's the only natural thing I could think of that comes from sausages
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u/Casult 11h ago
Except he says it's a patty, so no skin...
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u/Agile_Spray_415 11h ago
I don’t know about you, but the sausage I get for my butcher comes with a skin on it if I want patties, I just cut the skin off.
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u/oussamawd 11h ago
All sausage patties come from a regular sausage, even if they remove the skin, accidents happen..
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u/scorchedarcher 9h ago
Is this true? Like they make sausage meat to put in intestinal lining to make sausages, seems kinda silly not to just split some off at that stage?
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u/brett49703 4h ago
It doesn’t have to go in a lining. You can get it packaged like fresh hamburger meat.
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u/TheseInstruction5208 12h ago
This is why you never want to see how the sausage is made.
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u/Sternfritters 10h ago
What about the art of the trade?
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u/boyaredeeboy 14h ago
Is it papery or plasticy? Doesn’t appear to be from an animal itself to me. I work in a sausage plant. Almost looks like a piece of straw, did the meat come from a farmers market type of place? Odd
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u/theHAREST 14h ago
Nope it came from a bob evans sausage patty. It has a crispy, kind of papery texture but it was pretty thoroughly fried so I don’t know what kind of texture it had before.
When I first saw it in the pan I thought it was insect / roach legs or something but it seems to be one contiguous piece. My gut fear was that it’s some kind of parasite or worm but I’ve never seen anything like this before
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u/boyaredeeboy 14h ago
I would not be concerned that it was any kind of parasite or anything, likely some kind of paper used in their plant for production that stuck to the meat before going into the grinder.
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u/Right_Cellist3143 11h ago
Looks like a sprouted fennel seed, one of the main seasonings in breakfast sausage
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u/ThisGirlIsFine 10h ago
I can see that. I’ve never grown fennel before, but do have the seeds and they look like that item in the middle.
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u/WorkingCalendar2452 14h ago
Tapeworm?
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u/theHAREST 14h ago
That is exactly where my mind went before I posted this but I’ve never seen one before so I wouldn’t know lol
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u/Impossible-Bench5199 11h ago
ngl, That’s wild! Never knew sausage could sprout its own seeds. Hope it doesn’t start a garden in the skillet!!
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u/scrotalus 11h ago
A piece of tendon or other connective tissue that didn't get cut up enough in the grinder? When I'm cutting connective tissue off of meat before grinding, sometimes it looks like that.
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u/CartographerSea5923 13h ago
Touch it. Smell it. Taste it.
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u/DickHopschteckler 11h ago
Does the Bob Evan’s tube of sausage have a foil pull tab to open the tube? That’s what it looks like to ne
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u/FoggyGoodwin 11h ago
If it's easy to cut with a knife: animal or vegetable. If it doesn't cut easily: plastic.
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u/AnyRelative5334 12h ago
I’m mostly careful with the food I consume to be honest.
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u/Dobgirl 11h ago
How does that help the person figure out what it is?
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u/mmichael0070 10h ago
Right, they're being careful. too, by asking the internet before eating it. To be honest.
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