Vascular damage induced by acute hypertension is preceded by a peculiar pattern where blood vessels show alternating regions of constrictions and dilations ("sausages on a string"). The pattern occurs in the smaller blood vessels, and it plays a central role in causing the vascular damage. A related vascular pattern has been observed in larger vessels from several organs during angiography. In the larger vessels the occurrence of the pattern does not appear to be related to acute hypertension. A unifying feature between the phenomenon in large and small vessels seems to be an increase in vascular wall tension. Despite much research, the mechanisms underlying the sausage pattern have remained unknown. Here we present an anisotropic model of the vessel wall and show that the sausage pattern can arise because of an instability of the vessel wall. The model reproduces many of the key features observed experimentally. Most importantly, it suggests that the "sausaging" phenomenon is neither caused by a mechanical failure of the vessel wall due to a high blood pressure nor is it due to standing pressure waves caused by the beating of the heart. Rather, it is the expression of a general instability phenomenon. Experimental data suggest that the structural changes induced by the instability may cause secondary damage to the wall of small arteries and arterioles in the form of endothelial hyperpermeability followed by local fibrinoid necrosis of the vascular wall. with that sausage hanging down from your hand make a loop over your hand twice the length of the required sausage. You're on for that Mate ! How do you think your sauage knotting will be after some really horrible cider ? this time my first ones all were tied a la mr moss (the local butcher when i was small )style .but as i was drinking wine while producing the latter ones they ended as cumberland spirals .break a lenght off , sorted

Some people have even asked me if there is something sexual about the sculptures because some sausages are bent and others stand up straight!” Goldberg: What do you think? You want me to stand by idle while he pinches a pound of my best chipolatas while I've got a good customer waiting for them? Everyone was asking why are you carrying sausages or why are you sculpting sausages? I said because of Brexit and they laughed. Everyone gets it.” 'People interpret it differently' In one episode of Jonathan Creek, a stage magician pulls a seemingly endless string of sausages from his trousers as part of his act. Adam Klaus is not amused.Well I really want to get this one right, next time round will try and follow one set of instructions on here. Not found out how to link in 4's yet but from my experiance in a past life as a chef they are all linked in one go from one string & not 2 x 2 linked together. The Simpsons episode "Homer the Vigilante" starts with the Springfield Cat Burglar sneaking into the Simpsons' home and being growled at by Santa's Little Helper. Being Genre Savvy enough to know this trope, he pulls out a chain of sausages to distract the animal. It gets Played for Laughs moments later when Homer sleep-walks in, and is also stopped by being given sausages. Sinha D, Kale S, Kundaragi NG, Sharma S (2020) Mesenteric ischemia: a radiologic perspective. Abdom Radiol 1–15. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-020-02867-y At this point you should have one sausage with 3 sausages above it in one link with the unlinked skin coming from the top of the 3 sausages

Ghodasara N, Liddell R, Fishman EK, Johnson PT (2019) High-value multidetector CT angiography of the superior mesenteric artery: What emergency medicine physicians and interventional radiologists need to know. Radiographics 39:559–577. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.2019180131 This also showed up in the second act of the Mr. Bogus episode " Beach Blanket Bogus", when Bogus notices his younger cousin Brattus having a tug-of-war with a dog over some sausage links. Bogus goes over to help Brattus, but the two cousins wind up only getting one sausage while the dog eats the rest of them. It depends on the people who are looking at it. I’m making a metaphor and I don’t mind that people interpret it differently," he said. In the The Loud House episode, " Cereal Offender", when Lincoln chases after a kid dressed in an outfit identical to his who took his box of Zombie Bran cereal, the kid tries to slow him down by spilling coffee beans on the floor. To get across them, Lincoln takes some linked sausages from the nearby deli and uses them like a rope to swing over the coffee beans.Wow thats an odd way of tying them. We use the 3 in a link method & lots of butchers us a 4 in a link method but I have never seen that one done. Linking whilst drunk.... I thought it was compulsary? When we do our own animals (for our own consumption only, as all selling meat [except poultry] is killed at a slaughter house) the drinking starts once the animal is dead. I might have a go, but I think you need a sauasge in front of you to work it out as you go. I just twist mine starting from the middle and working outwards to prevent any bursting.

Mazzei MA, Guerrini S, Squitieri NC, et al (2016) Emergency radiology special feature: Full paper: Reperfusion in non-occlusivemesenteric ischaemia (NOMI): Effectiveness of CT in an emergency setting. Br J Radiol 89:. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20150956 Place the right string over the left at the pinch point This forms a pair of sausages like the ‘eye’ of a needle I suspect for 4's, one makes a pair, makes a pair, folds them together secures with a twist (somehow) and continues... ?

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It boasts eight fibreglass sculptures of sausages over a metre long, complete with realistic burnt bits, in “a social intervention”. Maybe it's the way my brain works, but all attempts at demonstrating to me how to do it failed miserably. In the end I just had to work it out for myself (some of my ancestors were butchers, so I guess it maybe came through as something slightly innate). Every sausage making book I've seen says 'too complicated to put into words' when it comes to the final bit- but I always thought that was codswallop, they just couldn't be bothered. And a book on sausage making that shys away from telling you how to link them is a bit pointless. PS having just watched that video I will have to do one as he is making it much harder than it needs to be. Breakfast90 Brilliant toy My dog loves it. It’s robust as she is yet to get through it lol! Very good price aswell. DarceyBerkeley Berkeley’s Morning Fry-up My shihtzu Berkeley loves this and plays with it a lot my sister came round and now her dog wants one too

Rodda R, Denny-Brown D (1966) The cerebral arterioles in experimental hypertension. I. The nature of arteriolar constriction and its effects on the collateral circulation. Am J Pathol 49:53–76Copin P, Zins M, Nuzzo A, et al (2018) Acute mesenteric ischemia: A critical role for the radiologist. Diagn Interv Imaging 99:123–134. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diii.2018.01.004 An episode of Sonny with a Chance has Sonny and her friends getting revenge on a critic by making fun of her on a So Random! sketch. The next day, they get a gift basket from her with a chain of sausages inside, with words printed on each sausage forming the sentence "YOU'RE DEAD MEAT". It is a pyrrhic victory for British producers, who face fierce competition from top class Northern Irish sausages while still being shut out of the EU market, which Northern Irish banger-makers can access because of the Protocol. Linking sausages without using butcher twine by twisting filled casings is a common procedure, but Spanish sausages are generally linked with the twine as this method is more practical for drying sausages.