Web Video / Ordinary Sausage

"Well hey there folks and, uh, welcome back... I guess?"

— Mr. Sausage at the start of most of his videos

Ordinary Sausage is a YouTube cooking show based in Illinois, formerly Florida, where the host — a mustachioed, shades-wearing chef who sounds a lot like Peter Griffin and calls himself "Mr. Sausage" — turns various foods and ingredients into sausages. Most episodes involve him taking a dish or ingredient, running it through a meat grinder, putting the filling inside a sausage casing, cooking the sausage, and finally tasting it and giving the sausage a score on a scale of zero to five. The channel began in early 2020 and was relatively obscure until he was featured in a Cr1TiKaL video which resulted in a large spike of new viewers and subscribers. Over time the show became more sophisticated with Mr. Sausage buying (or being given) higher-quality equipment, making more expensive dishes into sausages, as well as creating a few spin-off series. Mr. Sausage has also started a joke-rivalry with fellow YouTube cook Binging with Babish.

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"Alright in three, two, one, Let's trope!"

• Aesop Amnesia: Time and time again, Mr. Sausage will declare that the sausage ingredient du jour is surely salty/flavorful enough to season the pork on its own without him adding additional salt to it, and time and time again he is proven wrong, the resulting sausage isn't salty enough, and scores a 3 or less.
• Berserk Button:
  • His wife, "Mrs. Sausage" really hates the "Will it Blow?" segment because of the mess it makes in the kitchen. She sometimes scolds her husband over it.
  • In the Lobster Sausage video, he half-heartedly showed off a "Water Sausage" for a viewer who requested it while rinsing out the sausage casing, and got very annoyed when everyone in the comments was far more interested in seeing him cook and rate that than the expensive lobster he had bought. He proceeded to complain about it extensively in the following several episodes, with the amount he supposedly paid for the lobster increasing with each complaint. The Water Sausage continues to be his most viewed video by a mile. The entirety of the Egg Sausage video is him complaining about how well it performed compared to more interesting sausages.
    Mr. Sausage: It doesn't make sense.
    Mrs. Sausage: Why does it even matter?
    Mr. Sausage: SIXTY-THREE DOLLARS ON LOBSTER-
  • He hates being overcharged for what he considers mediocre food. The Parmesan Chicken Pizza Sausage video has him rant about the poor quality and awful delivery from Cheesecake Factory, he spends most of the Guy Fieri's Trash Can Nachos Sausage video gobsmacked that it cost him one hundred dollars, and the Triple Dipper Sausage video starts with him irate that Chili's charged him $16 for it.
    • This even extends to his mother, who is similarly incensed with Michael Symon's Pierogies (which were utterly mediocre and cost $100+ for 24 of them).
• Big "OMG!": Mr. Sausage belts out several of these as the Pineapple Fried Rice Sausage proceeds to disintegrate before it even starts cooking.^note Likely due to enzymes of the pineapple breaking down the sausage casing.
• Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: One episode involves making sausage with a single drop of Meet Your Maker Hot Sauce (5 million Scolville units). A single bite nearly kills Mr. Sausage.
  Mr. Sausage: HOLY- (chokes) MRS. SAUSAGE, GET ME SOME WATER! It-It-It takes a second, at first it- (unintelligible screaming)
• Broke the Rating Scale: Sometimes, a Will It Blow is such that, instead of Mark Ruffalo, he uses a different celebrity in the scale.
  • In a more positive example- the Yak sausage was the first he made that earned a 6/5.
  • The Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce sausage scored a 6 as well... for "Will it Blow?", not for quality.
  • The Sashimi Party Tray Sausage becomes the second-ever 6/5 sausage, to his great surprise.
  • The fact that the Menthol Sausage caused him physical pain just from cooking it alone^note Mr. Sausage claims that breathing the smoke emitted from the sausage cooking hurt a bit for him, it was hard for him to open his eyes, and the sausage itself tasted like "burning". granted it a -1/5.
• Call-Back: As Mr. Sausage tries to start cooking the Candle Salad Sausage, he sees to its great shock that the pineapple enzymes have dissolved the sausage casing. After his second attempt falls through, he has a "Eureka!" Moment and declares, "This is why the Pineapple Fried Rice Sausage burst!" (That one at least made it into the pan before it fell apart, but at the time he didn't realize it was the pineapple's fault.)
• The Cameo: Huggbees appears briefly as a narrator in "Brain Sausage".
• Character Catchphrase: Several.
  • He begins most videos with "Well, hey there folks and, uh, welcome back... I guess?" usually followed by announcing the sausage he's making.
  • "It's the (whatever he's gonna make it out of)... SAUSAGE!" before he starts cooking/grinding.
  • "Let's sausage!" Either before he uses the sausage press or placing the sausage on the pan. Sometimes a countdown precedes it. Sometimes him complaining that it's a horrible catchphrase comes after it.
  • "That's the (Whatever ingredient is being used) water." as Mr Sausage points to the excess liquid that leaks out of the sausage tube before he starts stuffing the casing
  • "It's regrind time!" When he has to regrind his ingredients.
  • "Let's open it up and see how we did!" When he gets a cross-section after it's done cooking.
  • "Bowp bowp bowp, bop bop." The jingle he sings when his score for each sausage displays at the end.
• Complexity Addiction: He has no idea why the instructions for Guy Fieri's Trash Can Nachos needs eleven steps in its cooking instructions, especially since all of the ingredients (except the jalapeno) come pre-prepared. Even The Stinger is him claiming it only needs three.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Not by choice, anyway. In some videos, like "Beef Wellington Sausage", he's shown to have lots of actual cooking skill, but everything ends up in the grinder by the end, with....mixed results.
• Didn't Think This Through: A reoccurring problem across his videos. Several of his attempts to avoid a mess when taking something out of the toaster oven or loading something into a casing often end up causing more of a mess than he was trying to avoid.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: He shouts "L'chaim!" after removing the sheath from a geoduck.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Mr. Sausage is much quieter and more reserved in his first few videos. He also had a more distinct Northeast American accent in them.
• Epic Fail: While making cuttlefish sausage, Mr. Sausage tries to dump some cornstarch into a large measuring cup, only for it to somehow leap over the cup and land on the countertop.
  Mr. Sausage: (genuinely bewildered) Now… now how?
• Everyone Has Standards: Though normally Mrs. Sausage is either silent or not present, there are a few times where she scolds her husband for some of his antics, such as when she had to tell him to "stop putting spaghetti in the ice maker", and when his "Will It Blow" segment involving ground pig brain causes it to get all over his kitchen, prompting Mrs. Sausage to scream "What the hell are you doing?!"
  • And with Mr. Sausage himself, he admitted the Balut Sausage was a mistake, as the mess of blood and feathers that came out of the grinder was legitimately traumatizing to some people. He took the video off of his channel after just one day.
• Fingore: During the fish sausage episode, he accidentally cuts his finger when cutting into the fish.
  • This also happens during the Coconut Sausage, where he cuts his finger on the seed coat of a coconut.
• Formula-Breaking Episode:
  • Mr. Sausage will occasionally reattempt to cook one of his deliberately (or accidentally) poorer-quality sausages in the hopes of getting a better result during a Sausage Regrind episode.
  • The Non-Sausage Episodes (or NSEs), introduced in 2022, forgo the usual sausage-making for other, similarly-insane culinary pursuits. Some, like boiling a steak in A1 sauce, boiling spaghetti in Diet Coke, or pressing an entire Chipotle burrito into a waffle iron, turn out amazingly well, to the utter shock of both the viewers and Mr. Sausage himself. Others, like trying to deep-fry a slice of pizza or melting Skittles into rice, don't turn out so well.
  • SausageQuest is about Mr. Sausage reviewing hot dogs from various restaurants throughout Chicago.
• Gone Horribly Right: In a sense, the Carolina Reaper sausage: The actual sausaging process went off without a hitch, it managed to cook without bursting, in terms of preparation, it came out fine. But, given what he was dealing with:
  Mr. Sausage: OH MY GOD! (spits it out) It's the hottest damn thing I've ever tasted! I'm blind in one eye! Both of my hands are burning! The sausage itself just tastes like chemical heat! I award this sausage no points, and may God have mercy on my soul!
  • A lesser example of this can be found in "Steak Baked Inside Of A Rotisserie Chicken". He intended for the filet mignon he stuffed inside a chicken to absorb the flavors of the chicken. It did, quite well. Too well, actually, as the steak now just tastes entirely like chicken, but still has the texture of steak. This disconnect grosses him out, giving it a 2/5, despite accomplishing exactly what he set out to do.
• Ironic Name: Needless to say, the vast majority of the sausages made on the channel aren't exactly what you'd call "ordinary". Or at least outside of Florida they aren't.
• Lethal Chef: Most of the time Mr. Sausage, despite how bizarre his creations are, doesn't qualify as this. However, some of his dishes, like the Menthol Sausage, the shrimp that was "cooked" with a six-volt battery^note This did end up being a failure., and the Meat Wellington^note Raw round pork covering raw ground beef covering raw ground turkey covering raw ground chicken covering a seared steak; the resulting monstrosity was placed in the oven. Not all of its parts ended up being cooked. are probably not things that should be served to anyone.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • "Bag of Candy Sausage" directly followed "Blood Sausage", and as such he spends a decent portion of the (already short) video seething over the comments from British viewers complaining that he made black pudding instead of an actual blood sausage.
  • "Earth Sausage" was his angriest sausage to date, not only repeatedly stating "All of your mothers!", but outright ends the video by flipping off the camera.
    Mr. Sausage: (throws the sausage down onto the table) IT TASTES LIKE DIRT!
• Running Gag:
  • "Will it Blow?" A segment where he'll try to blow the leftover filling out of the sausage press tube, how well it blows out (i.e., how big of a mess it makes) is rated on a scale of zero to five Mark Ruffalos.
  • The unconventional ways he tries to turn on the meat grinder or pouring oil into the frying pan.
  • He sometimes sculpts the ground ingredients into snowman-like character and adds pieces of a Mr. Potato Head toy on it, calling it "Mr. Potato Sausage".
  • Shouting "BUT FIRST!" while smashing a sausage with his fist (before cutting to him opening fan-mail or fan-art).
  • When putting the filling into the press, he usually sings a song with one or more words replaced with "sausage".
  • After moving to the Illinois house, him being terrified of its Creepy Basement. Whenever he turns the lights off, he typically sprints up the stairs while screaming.
  • "This is a special message from (chain restaurant) Corporate!" "(Take That! at the company)" "That was a special message from (chain restaurant) Corporate!"
  • Throughout the Guy Fieri's Trash Can Nachos Sausage episode, he keeps bringing up how the instruction card for the nachos had eleven steps.
  • Him yelling upstairs to Mrs. Sausage to ask her a question, with her almost always yelling back "NO!" in response.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: The result of him having to taste the Habanero Sausage. He also gave it a 0/5 afterwards.
  YouTube Comment: He talks like Peter Griffin but screams like Homer Simpson.
• Share the Male Pain: Present all throughout The Bull Sausage episode or, more specifically, the Bull's Twigs & Berries. Mr. Sausage gets pretty distraught at multiple points, which is arguably at its worst when he's forced to slice up the pizzle by hand so it doesn't jam the grinder.
  Mr. Sausage: (after finishing his task) May god forgive me for this episode.
• Springtime for Hitler: During his Habanero Sausage episode, he clearly hoped to make it burst by not pricking the sausage and by throwing it about in the pan with much more force than usual so that he wouldn't have to taste it. One can practically hear the worry in his voice when it comes out of the pan in one nearly perfectly cooked piece.
  Mr Sausage: Why didn't it burst?
• Stealth Insult: He always ends off his promotions for HelloFresh with a hearty "GO TO HELL-oFresh.com!"
• Sunglasses at Night: He's often seen wearing sunglasses inside his kitchen.
• Supreme Chef: Mr. Sausage can actually be pretty good at cooking whenever he wants to be. It's just a shame that those meals barely have a spoonful eaten from them before they're ground into mush. Then there's his "boil a steak in X" videos, which always have the comments marvelling at how he always manages to cook said steaks to a perfect medium rare no matter what kind of bizarre substance he's using.
• A Tankard of Moose Urine: The comments on the Jeppson's Malört Sausage video describe the aforementioned liquor as tasting like "pencil shavings and heartbreak", "a condom filled with gasoline", or "cigarette ash in rubbing alcohol". In the video, Mr. Sausage says it was described to him as tasting like "earwax and hate", and after trying it himself, says it tastes like "if whiskey expired". He later claims the resulting sausage tastes like gasoline and "like someone continuously kicked you in the crotch". Unsurprisingly, the sausage got a 0/5 rating. According to the comments, the liquor allegedly tastes that bad on purpose because it was created to weasel around Prohibition laws by claiming to be a medical disinfectant that nobody in their right mind would ever drink recreationally, and it worked.
• Tastes Better Than It Looks:
  • Mr. Sausage was absolutely disgusted by the Vegemite Sausage throughout the disastrous cooking process - the taste and smell of the contentious Australian spread was not a good first impression he and predicted it would score a fat zero, the casing burst while he was filling it, it blew a little too well for his liking and one of the sausages completely ruptured in the pan - but in the end, he was shocked to discover that he found it delicious and rated it 5/5.
  • Rather then disgusting, Mr. Sausage expected the Funyuns Sausage to be extremely bland, based on his past experience making sausages out of similar corn-based snack foods, which all ended up tasting entirely like corn with none of the other flavours coming through at all. He predicted that a single teaspoon of onion powder would have given him a more oniony sausage than the whole bag of Funyuns he used. To his surprise, the resulting sausage tasted very oniony, and got a 5/5.
  • In a case of "Tastes Better Than It Smells", the Surströmming Sausage managed to get a 4/5 despite its notorious smell overwhelming any measure Mr. Sausage uses to try to contain it (to the point the video ends with a hopefully-joking title card claiming his wife left him over it).
• This Is Gonna Suck:
  • His very first words for the Habanero Sausage: "Good bye, colon, and thanks for all the memories."
  • The Tongue Sausage begins with him noting, "This is gonna be a therapy-inducing episode."
• Unconventional Learning Experience: invoked The sausage involving pineapple fried rice caused Mr. Sausage to learn the hard way, due to how quickly it kept bursting, that pineapple juice dissolves protein.
• Unknown Rival: He considers himself one to "Badging with Bimbish".
  Mr Sausage: I don't care if he doesn't know we have a feud!
• Vocal Evolution: Mr. Sausage's voice grows steadily higher-pitched and nasally over the first year or so of videos until it settles around the 500K Sausage video.
• Who Would Want to Watch Us?: Mr. Sausage's introductory catchphrase is a consistently surprised acknowledgement that people are still tuning in just to watch him make absurd sausages.
• Your Mom: The first words out of his mouth as he begins to make the Earth Sausage is an aggravated, "All of your mothers!" He restates this as the throws the sausage in the pan, and ups it to "All of your mothers and all of your fathers too!" before he bites into it.

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