[Ads-l] antedating merguez

Bill Mullins amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM
Sun Dec 17 06:12:40 UTC 2017


Merguez sausage is a north African meat.  OED has 1975 for "merguez".


The Age (Melbourne, Victoria,  Australia) 13 Jan 1966, p 10 col 3

"In Tunisia they use, instead of pork sausages, mutton sausages called 
"merguez," which are unavailable here."


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