“The Peasants Are Revolting!”
The “snakes on a plane” phenomenon is a sign of hope. Much as people disgusted by the archetypal era called “the 60s” try to escape human nature, they end up reinforcing it and their authoritarian excesses certainly guarantee its repetition. Maybe, back then, it was the Cuban Missile Crisis that set it off, maybe the JFK assassination but when the government tries to control people by scare tactics, they’ll put up with it for a while, but then they’ll cast it off.
Even before “the 60s,” yeah, man, it all happened before, in the decadence of post Weimar Germany and in the latter day excesses of the Roman Empire. How will it end this time - a swing back of the disco pendulum, in Fascism, or total dissolution of society? Or maybe diversity>
From the 60's onward however, the character of the traditional boerewors taste was experimented with by entrepreneurs who added a host of additional flavours to the boerewors taste. Copious quantities of barbecue spice, onion, tomato, garlic, cheese, chillies, peppers, chicken and, you name it, were added in order to diversify the taste of the good old "boeries". On the market was now garlic wors, chilli wors, cheese wors, chicken wors etc. etc. Many consumers, naturally, enjoyed these variations. Others, obviously, called it sacrilege. These additions to the taste of boerewors had, however, come to stay and are still freely available today.
It doesn’t really matter to me, it’s not in my hands. I’m gonna make some sausage tomorrow, some good stuff, a boerewors recipe from South Africa: Dutch driven, Indian spice seasoned, sour with vinegar, and warm, with cloves, 70% lean beef, 30% pork butt, phosphates to make it dense, and a caveat: All these people who compare the process of creating legislation to sausage making are smoking crack.
Gotta be.
I’ve been making sausage for nearly 20 years, know lots of sausage makers, and on one point we all agree: None of ever took a bribe, consorted with gamblers and prostitutes, went on a golfing junket in Scotland, or lied about anything that goes into our sausage. Comparing legislation to sausage making is like comparing armed robbery to putting a little extra pickle relish on your bratwurst.
Anyway, I hear the first rule of kosher slaughter is not to scare your future meat. Don’t ever let the animal see the knife because the fear that courses through the animal’s blood will taint the flesh. If you’re lucky enough to kill it when it gets worked up that way, the meat will taste awful, guaranteed, and might even be unhealthy. Furthermore, if the animal sees the knife long enough, it will make a desperate attempt to escape – and when its survival instinct goes up against the skills of an incompetent butcher, survival nearly always wins. That’s why people are going crazy over something as stupid as snakes on a plane.
They’ve seen the knife too long and know there's nothing to lose just by bolting.
9:01:39 PM 
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