Last time in France merguez hot dogs became popular as the protesters, who had been roaming the streets for hours, turned to this solution to avoid being left with an “empty” stomach.

The last time the “grills caught fire” was in 2018 during the “yellow vests” protests. “The mergers have been identified with protests,” reports CNN. They are made from beef and lamb, with cumin and a spicy North African harissa sauce.

The French writer Marcel Proust once wrote reverently about how the smell of freshly baked Madeleine cakes can evoke memories of the past. As the French newspaper Le Monde wrote, the smells of sausage are the Madeleine de Proust of the labor movement.

Merges was brought to the country by the Communist Party in 1950. The sausage first appeared at the Humanité music festival, which began in 1930 to fund the Communist Party’s newspaper, which is still in print today.

Many started eating them at the same time during the Algerian liberation struggle out of solidarity with North African workers. They were later eaten by students in May 1968 and also at large demonstrations in 1995 and later for insurance.

For most of the years, French trade unions organize Labor Day events. In 2023, for only the third time since the end of World War II, they held a joint event in Paris, united by opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to reform the pension system, which would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. .

And, of course, merguez took pride of place.

According to CNN