making sausages

THERE ARE A LOT OF VAGUELY ATTRIButable references to the joy of eating sausages as opposed to the knowledge of their making, but perhaps the clearest is that mentioned by Frank W. Tracy in 1898, when he recalled, “Some 20 years ago, as I was sitting in the House of Representatives of the Illinois Legislature, watching its closing hours, a member who had never spoken during the entire session arose to address the House ... He said: ‘... I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages—the less you know about the process the more you