You can't really say whether or not sausage is gluten free without seeing the ingredient list, so I didn't even try. Even if they don't add wheat, perhaps they've put soy sauce or something in it that contains wheat. Personally if someone can't verify the ingredients for me, I have to think twice about eating it.

Thanks, all. That pretty well addresses my question about sausage. I'm going to assume that the sausage my son has stored out in my freezer contains gluten.
As for the restaurant where I ate the other sausage, the reason I like to eat there is because it is a buffet. I get carry-out, which turns out very cheap for me, since they charge according to the weight. I can usually eat for 2 or 3 bucks! I'll just be sure to limit myself to the veggies and salad, and take my own salad dressing. And they usually have baked potatoes, with sour cream and butter on the side. That should be OK!
Now I just have to figure out what to get at the Mexican restaurant. We eat there once a week, and I did check the ingredients in their corn tortillas. I've been ordering rice and beans (cheap, again! ), and I always eat a few of the chips and salsa. But something there has been bothering me. I guess I'll cut out the chips, and get a salad, and the tortillas. I explained to the owner's wife about the need for gluten free food, and she brought out the package of corn tortillas for me to check the ingredients. But since I didn't specifically ask her about the other dishes, I doubt if it would have occured to her to mention if flour were used in them. As it was, she looked at me as if I needed to have my head examined!
Thanks,

They use soy sauce in a lot of the marinades in Mexican cooking these days. :\ So you do need to be careful. Again, those dining cards are fantastic, I really recommend looking into them. They usually have them bilingual too, so if you're eating at a Thai restaurant it is in Thai/English.

Another thing to be aware of is a lot of times they fry wheat things and non-wheat things in the same oil.

The ways for cross contamination to happen in buffets is pretty endless. Someone could knock some wheat into a dish, use a spoon that was just in a wheat based dish, accidently dribble crumbs from bread. I remember one waitress on another gluten free web site saying how they're always getting crumbs from croutons mixed into the other salad ingredients, because they're rushing and food is flying everywhere.

I would absolutely not eat food from a buffet... ever!! The risk of cross contamination is just too great.

Sorry to bring news that I'm sure you don't want to hear.

The good news is that you can make your own buffet at home and be sure that you won't get sick!

I think sausage is problematic anyway.

This food is filled with fat, and questionable animal by products.

I do not know about the gluten issue, since I stopped using sausages
before I went GF.

Did I tell you that canned salmon now by Chicken of the Sea has wheat
powder in it? The little tins to take to lunch, they just hit the shelves a couple of months ago. I buy the foil envelopes to take to lunch
and they don't have the wheat listed. Who needs wheat in Salmon?

Thanks for the advice, Nancy, Kim, and Mrsd! I guess I'm really running a risk when I eat at the buffet.
Flour in salmon!!?! Lord, what will they think of next? Is nothing sacred?
Hugs,