The merguez
Introduced in France by the Pieds-noirs since the 1950s, #merguez can be used to prepare many other recipes: ojja, tagine, cut into slices on pizzas, integrated into quiches….
We finds the word "mirkas", which is a sausage in medieval Berber-Muslim cuisine from the 13th century, among the Arabs of Spain. This word would be attached to the Spanish “morcilla” (blood sausage) out morcon (big sausage). Everyone appropriates the invention of merguez: The Tunisians claim that it is Tunisian, because they invented the harissa which spices it up.
The Algerians claim that she is of Algerian and even Kabyle nationality. According to them, etymologically, the word merguez comes from the Berber word “amrguaz”: “am” meaning “like” and “rguaz”, “the man”, in other words, the merguez designates nothing other than the virile member… get the report. 
Moroccans settled in Europe marry it royally to couscous, which deeply indignantly indignates all the rest of the #Maghreb who rebel against this unnatural couple.
The Jews say that the merguez was born in their butcher shops in Oran and that they brought it to France when they had to leave Algeria at its independence.
Even the Alsatians come to put their grain of salt! It would be the Alsatian settlers, very fond of sausages, settled northeast of Constantine who invented the merguez. As in Constantine, there was no pork, they replaced it with beef and lamb.
