Welcome to the Affair of the Sausages! We are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in Switzerland.

The event, which came to be referred to as the Affair of the Sausages, is considered to be the start of the Reformation in Switzerland. On the first fasting Sunday, 9 March, Huldrych Zwingli (a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland) and about a dozen other participants consciously transgressed the fasting rule by cutting and distributing two smoked sausages. Zwingli defended this act in a sermon which was published on 16 April, under the title Von Erkiesen und Freiheit der Speisen (Regarding the Choice and Freedom of Foods). He noted that no general valid rule on food can be derived from the Bible and that to transgress such a rule is not a sin.