In German the word for Sausage is Wurst. Striping that back to its original form, Wurst originates as Kukukuarst. As a proto-english (Saxon?) Word we get Kuku (Cuckoo) - Kuarst (Karst). What does this mean? Karst is a limestone rock type - named for a geographic Karst region in Slovenia (right on the border with italy), its also germanic for crust. Behold the origin of the Sausage: At best we have a Cuckoo baked in a pastry crust (made of flour, limestone, or even clay) like a sausage roll, and at the worst just a cuckoo from the Forest of the Karst Plateau. A suspiciously barbaric meal that predates stuffing mince in an intestine from a people between what will be the Greeks and the Romans. Much of the German language originates in that region. Early celtic-germanic tribes. And then one day anyone not part of civilization is a barbarian.
So feel free to wrap a raw chicken leg (or vegetable mix) in a flour/egg/milk pastry crust and bake it in the coals (or oven) and celebrate the glory of a bunch of Barbarians. Feel free to Experiment. A cuckoo baked in a powdered limestone pastry crust might even be edible.
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