Be careful with sausages and packaged meats (even from Trader Joe's!), they're often laden with a million weird ingredients including sugar, corn syrup, MSG, wheat-derived substances, and horrible preservatives. In fact, it's very rare to find commercial sausage that doesn't have sugar. READ THE LABELS!!!!!! I can't stress this enough. Don't just read the nutritional information, read the ingredients, which is really more important anyway.
I've found the Roma brand sausages made right here in Baltimore are decent, cheap, and often available at Giant or Safeway. The label on Roma sausages says "pork, salt, spices." I'm not always sure what "spices" means, but I reckon it's not as awful as the crap they put in the Giant brand. I haven't yet found good salami, but you could probably ask people at Trinacria to see ingredient labels and such. Incidentally, their roast beef is pretty awful, just a tiny notch above Arby's - tastes like salty plastic.
The market at Belvedere Square has some nice stuff meat wise if you can splurge. They don't take food stamps unfortunately. Whole Foods also often has some ok sausage as well.
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