Sausages Take Off

Sausages Take offIf you're ever invited to a sauna in Finland, don't be startled by ropes of limp sausages hanging from the rafters. It may seem like a shtick from a Marx Brothers film at first, but it's an old Finnish custom. When man and sausage are thoroughly steamed, both emerge from the sauna and the former gobbles the latter, sluicing it down with beer or cold schnapps.Sausages are the universal nosh, generic to every cuisine, culture and country. The ancient Spartans, not otherwise known...