Saw these at a Dieter Roth exhibit in MoMA. He cobbled together traditional sausage recipes and substituted books and magazines in for meat. And then sent the sausages away to friends and told them do do anything they wanted with it.
It was one of the coolest thing I saw all day, and the lack of preciousness about the sausages really impressed me. The art was only half over by the time he had finished it. That's probably part of the reason why he has a massive exhibit at MoMA.
'When I was young I wanted to become a real artist. Then I started doing something I felt wasn't real art, and it was through this that I became a well-known artist.' - Dieter Roth