I like buying Country Style pork,boneless ribs.
They have a great fat to meat ratio most of the time for Bulk sausage making.
When I make Beef sausage I add pork fat to it because beef tends to get dry.
Add whatever you like to it pork ribs.
I add everything when/before I grind it.
Add some liquid ingredients (water,vinegar,soy,worchestershire,whatever)after the grind then let it blend over night.
Most times I re grind after the overnight blend to ensure an even mix.
I like adding smoked Manzano powder,smoked garlic,smoked onion smoked salt,smoked pepper corns among other things and grilling it rather than smoking it.
The smoked goodies/ingredients make it smokey enough.
I've found COLD smoking fatty stuff makes great grease balls.
For cooking bulk style.
Cased sausage that you are smoking for taste are a different story.Depends on how you prep it to serve.
Country ribs make GREAT Italian Sausage-bulk.
Good Chorizo and Salvadorian chorizo too.
Making Cajun Sausages is an art in my opinion.
best stuff in the world when you get it right...
A fatty ,way back when, was a always a candy shaped,giant ,poorly rolled joint.
Google Cheech and Chong,Big Bambo.Album came with a giant rolling papper that made a 1 oz. + joint.
Ya I lived a few houses down from Cheeck Marin and Cheech And Chong used to come to our class re unions for the class of 72 Alemany High School.
T.B.
I hear ya.
I quit smoking,cut down on beer 99%,lost 80Lbs. and got health insurance.
Worst thing I ever did.
After about 4 weeks of no smoking I spent a month in the hospital with blood clots in my lungs.
After I lost the weight they put me on blood pressure meds that gave me tremins but raised my High and low #'s.
My original blood presure average was 135/72.
I have a hereditary gene thing that causes my blood clotting.
Since beer thinned my blood enough in the past I never got clots.When I cut back on beer I got massive clots in my lungs.
I'm on coumadine now but think I'd be better off drinking my once traditional pitcher of beer after work every day than eating rat poison every day and having to get tested all the time.
I didn't even mention my dental crap.
Been a year and they still don't have my dentures fixed.
Haven't been able to eat/chew anything harder than a sausage in over a year.