If you've eaten at a restaurant this year, you're familiar with the diversity of sausage offerings, whether a turkey sausage breakfast sandwich, modern peasant fare of homemade sausage, mustard, potato dumpling and kraut at a trendy restaurant, or just a straightforward bratwurst at a baseball game or cookout.
Sausage really is the "no drama" cousin of bacon - a beneficiary of stable prices, versatility and indulgence (or not, if diners aren't up for high-end, unique, specialty sausage).