A Mainichi Daily News article reports that pictures recently discovered in Chiba prefecture reveal that German prisoners of war in WWI taught their captures how to make sausages.
The article states in part:
The article states in part:
The 10 pictures from 1918 show German soldiers, who were detained at the Narashino prison camp in then Ninomiya (present-day Narashino) in Chiba Prefecture, butchering pigs and smoking pork to make sausages.
And in case you doubted the significance of this find, Norio Hotta, who is described in the article as "an expert in the history of meat processing in Japan, has this to say:
"The authentic German art (of sausage making) is pictured, and the photos are precious and significant in that they recorded the beginning of sausage making in Japan."
Damn skippy!
Enjoy your swine Japan.
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