sausage factory

Meaning

Noun

• A facility producing sausage meat products.
• Synonym of sausage party
• An unappealing process to generate something familiar.
• The process of creating news, involving the pursuit of stories, sources and research.
• Dealings and compromises that take place behind the scenes to enact legislation.

Origin

• In the sense of a gathering without women, sausage is a euphemism for penis. In other figurative senses, it is an example of a food that may be made from distasteful ingredients.