Sausage vs. Jerky — What's the Difference?

A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat, often pork, beef, or poultry, along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients such as grains or breadcrumbs may be included as fillers or extenders.

Jerky is lean trimmed meat that has been cut into strips and dried (dehydrated) to prevent spoilage. Normally, this drying includes the addition of salt to prevent bacteria growth before the meat has finished the dehydrating process.

An item of food in the form of a cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating.

Characterized by jerks or jerking

Used as an affectionate form of address, especially to a child

(Slang) Foolish; silly

Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.

Meat cured by jerking. Also called charqui.

A small cylinder-shaped serving of this meat.

Characterized by physical jerking.

A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.

Having the behavior of a jerk unpleasant person.

A sausage-shaped thing.

Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.

Penis.

(transitive) To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.

(informal) A term of endearment.

Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.

A saucisse.

Foolish; ridiculous; stupid.

(engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

Meat cut in strips and dried in the sun

An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.

Not having a steady rhythm;

A saucisson. See Saucisson.

Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings

A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon