What are sausages made out of?

Answer 1

Hot Dogs are made of finely ground meat, seasoned and cured. The cheaper versions tend to have binders and extenders in them, as these materials are less expensive than meat; however, these items have to be declared in the ingredients statement.

Things that are NOT in hot dogs, regardless of the urban myths that abound: cow lips, pig lips, pig ears, skin, ground bone, dirty meat (such as feces on a piece of meat), insects, rodents, etc. USDA FSIS inspectors are on site at these facilities daily and ensure that the product contains only safe and wholesome ingredients - if a problem is found, the inspector has both the authority and the duty to retain all affected product until it is either made safe (if there is a small piece of metal and through 100% metal detector inspection the rest is free of metal pieces) or it is removed from the human food chain (such as when the formulation is wrong or something nasty gets into a batch).

Answer 2

Generally, some type of ground meat and spices.

Answer 3

Sausages are made of pork and chicken, and the 'skin' is made of intestines. They certainly aren't vegetarian. There are vegetarian sausages, they can be found in the supermarket.