How to cut a sausage correctly and why it is cut diagonally – Miscellaneous

Sausage is a universal product that is eaten every day and bought for the festive table. There are a large number of sausage products in the world. But, probably, few people have thought about why sausage is cut diagonally?

Is this some kind of tradition that does not carry any special meaning, or an important nuance that is worth paying attention to? In fact, everything is quite simple.

There is a humorous legend according to which a Viennese butcher once accidentally cut a sausage at the counter of his shop at an angle. The fact is that in the morning he got out of bed and noticed that there was a mouse in one of his shoes. So he went to work with one bare foot. Because of this inconvenience, the butcher could not concentrate.

Later it turned out that the sausage cut diagonally has a more attractive appearance than the way he had previously cut it into even slices. Since then, the store began to cut the product only…