Rest assured, though, you are not hearing the cries of the pigs who died for your sausage. As Yahoo Answers helpfully explains, as “the water in the meat heats up and turns into steam, it expands. For a while, the skin of the sausage holds in the steam, but then the skin breaks open at a weak spot and the steam escapes out” not unlike a balloon losing air, or a tea kettle’s whistle.

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A similar phenomenon happens with Spam, as Takeout editor Kevin Pang discovered a few years ago—from the looks of it, possibly in his own Halloween mindset:

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