Patent ID: 7867536

Claim:
A method for producing an edible and elongated sausage-like meat product having opposed ends, comprising the steps of: removing an inner meat core from said elongated meat sausage, with the inner meat core removed from said elongated meat sausage having a length less than a distance between the opposed ends of said sausage such that, after said inner meat core is removed therefrom, said meat sausage defines a blind bore extending generally coaxial with and along a major length of said sausage, with said blind bore opening to one end of said sausage; inserting a mass of edible material into the open end of said blind bore in said meat sausage until said mass of edible material substantially fills the length of said blind bore, and with the meat at a closed end of said blind bore preventing said edible material from leaking from said sausage; and inserting a plug into and thereby filling a lengthwise portion of the open end of said blind bore in said meat sausage, with said plug being made from a lengthwise portion of the inner meat core removed from said meat sausage or from an inner core of a previously cored meat sausage.