12 Great, Totally Normal Ways to Celebrate National Sausage Month

October has long been a great month for sausage lovers. Oktoberfest celebrates the centuries-spanning love triangle between beer, brats, and polka. Apple season unleashes the glory of apples-and-sausage pairings on charcuterie boards everywhere. Tailgate parties bring the sizzle to parking lots nationwide. It’s glorious.

But in 2008, something incredible happened: The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council—a benevolent, all-powerful cadre of link lovers secretly pulling society’s levers—declared October National Sausage Month. For us, it’s proof that humanity can, in fact, unite for the greater good.

Of course, at The Sausage Project, every day is a celebration of sausage. But National Sausage Month is a chance to let your link flag fly and embrace sausage in all its juicy glory. Below are just a few ways to dive headfirst into a monthlong sausage party. Cook it. Wear it. Worship it. This is the month to join us in being unreasonably excited about sausage. Snap in and thrive.

Eat Sausage. Every. Single. Day.

Sausage isn’t just delicious. It’s everywhere—literally. Pretty much every culture has its version, and October is a great time to really put on your edible anthropology hat (that’s a thing, right?) and explore the wide world of sausage. To help, we’ve assembled a list of 31 sausages from around the world that you need to seek out. Most will be easy (or easy-ish) to find at your local butcher or grocery. Some might require you to go on a global adventure for sausage glory. Not really, but hey—if you want to go to the source, we don’t blame you!

And For Every. Single. Meal.

Start your day with a Melty Cheddar biscuit sandwich or a Tuscan scramble. For lunch, keep it light with a Caesar wrap (or heavy with a Caesar dog). Whip up some sausage-loaded pink pasta or a stir fry for dinner? And for dessert, might we recommend a sausage cake? It might sound gross, but savory meat cakes are all the rage in Sweden—they invented the three-point seatbelt and a bunch of Skarsgårds, so let's maybe give them the benefit of the doubt.

Invent Sausage Slang

Glizzy had its moment. What’s next? Link lord? Snap dragon? Chicken jockey (oops, already taken)? Choose your slang, then make fetch happen until it takes over TikTok.

Master the Art of Cooking Sausage

There’s more than one way to cook a sausage—even if it’s pre-cooked, like ours. Learn the ways of the sausage masters this October. First, perfect your grilling skills (and your grill-cleaning skills). Next, pick up a little knife work to maximize your slicing. Finally, experiment with cooking methods that draw out the most flavor in every bite. The tools are there. Become one with your sausage.

Make Sausage Art

What is a balloon animal if not a less-drippy sausage sculpture? Yes, we’re saying to play with your food.

Rethink How You’re Using Sausage

Around here, we like to say, “Nobody puts sausage in a corner.” And while buns don’t technically have corners, we invite you to think beyond those too. Have you considered a savory s’more? The fall air is crisp, the campfire’s calling—ditch the marshmallows and thank us later. There are a million ways to use our chicken sausages. What’s your next innovation?

Get A Sausage Tattoo

People often get tattoos of things they love, only to regret it when their love fades. Your love of sausage, though? That’s forever. So go ahead and make it a forever thing and get that full-back tattoo of Melty Cheddar you’ve been dreaming of.

Expand Your Palate

Did you know that in Seattle there’s a street dog partially inspired by knishes? That Rhode Islanders cram sausage in clams? Or that New Orleanians craft majestic sausage balls out of boudin? Or that in France, full sausages get baked into bread? Every culture has its own sausage. And every region does something different with it. Brush up on your regional sausage dishes—and then try as many as you can.

Go Viral

Create a TikTok dance where you twirl a sausage like a nunchuck. Find the next spiral-cut glizzy hack. Record some sizzling ASMR. Discuss, at length, the history of sausage in the Ottoman Empire (Rome is so two years ago), or put on a puppet show featuring nothing but sausages. Let sausage carry you to viral glory.

Become A Snack Board Expert

You don’t need to be a cheese expert to craft the perfect chicken-sausage charcuterie or snack board. But it helps to ask one! That’s exactly what we did in our guide to crafting the perfect snack board. Your party guests will thank you later!

Start Your Own Sausage Project

At The Sausage Project, we made it our mission to rethink the link and create the perfect chicken sausage. After a lot of trial and error, experimentation, and testing, we cracked the code. The proof of what can happen when you put your mind to something is in every delicious bite. So what’s your sausage project? Is it creating the perfect sausage dish? Finding a way to harness our clean ingredients into a clean energy source? Getting absolutely yoked by eating Italian Herb during a workout? Let us know about YOUR sausage project by tagging us on Instagram.

But Also Find THE Sausage Project

Head out to the grocery store and say hey. Your taste buds will thank you.