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| Alheiras Mirandela |
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| Ingredients |
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| with onions |
I am becoming notorious for raiding the 30% off products I come across at the grocery store. They can't sell it if it has gone bad after all. So I can either freeze the product or make it right away. This time I got this Alheiras Mirandela Portuguese sausage. The ingredients surprised me at home when it said it contained 'chicken, turkey, rabbit'. Then I went online and found an interesting story from Wikipedia behind this sausage.
In 1497, the Jews of Portugal were forced to either convert to Christianity or be forced to leave the country. They secretly avoided eating forbidden pork by hanging these sausages to avoid attracting the attention of the Portuguese Inquisition. Christians would hang pork sausages, so they would be noticed if they did not hang sausages.
