2013-12-19
Explanation
The Joke
One person holds up an intestine (a goat intestine, specifically) and explains "This is where poop goes through a goat." The other person, looking at the intestine casing, asks, "What if we filled it with blood? Would it be food then?" The caption reads: "Sausage is weird."
The Humor
The comic takes a step back and looks at sausage-making from an alien perspective. Sausages (and blood sausages like black pudding or boudin noir) are made by stuffing animal intestines with various fillings, including blood. When described in these raw, literal terms -- filling a poop tube with blood -- the entire concept sounds revolting and absurd. The humor comes from the cognitive dissonance between how normal sausage is as a food and how bizarre it sounds when described from first principles, as if being invented for the first time by primitive humans who had no preconceptions about what constitutes food.
References
Blood sausage (such as black pudding, morcilla, or boudin noir) is one of the oldest known prepared foods, dating back thousands of years. Traditional sausage casings are made from cleaned animal intestines.