On 4/18/2012 2:11 PM, rglan wrote:
> At 12:26 PM -0400 18/4/12,<[email protected]>  écrit:
>> a kind of sausage
>
> Oui, porc flesh mixed with chopped tripe and
> herbs and put inside the intestine :-)<salivate>
> In the 12th c. this word also denoted the male
> sexe ;-)  And I hope David H. Bailey didn't take
> offense; unlike most French people I tend to use
> this word very loosely, there was no malice
> intended. It's rarely used in France these days,
> has gone out of fashion, but I love it.
> Andouillette is still commonly used being a much
> smaller version of an andouille i.e. small
> sausage ;-)
>
> Thank you for the further insight into the modern Finale.
>

Nope, I didn't take offense.  Even though I didn't know exactly what it 
was I knew it was something derogatory but used in jest.



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