The film stars the voices of Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, and Salma Hayek.

[8][9][10] The film's rough cut premiered on March 14, 2016, at South by Southwest, followed by its general theatrical release in the United States on August 12, 2016, by Columbia Pictures.

Among the groceries is a sausage named Frank, who dreams of living in the Great Beyond with his hot dog bun girlfriend Brenda and their friends Carl and Barry.

Before committing suicide by falling onto the shop floor, Honey Mustard tells Frank to seek out a bottle of liquor named Firewater.

Honey Mustard's suicide creates an accidental cart collision that causes Frank, Brenda, and several groceries to fall out of the cart, including a Jewish bagel named Sammy Bagel Jr., a Middle-Eastern lavash named Kareem Abdul Lavash, and an aggressive douche who swears revenge on Frank and Brenda after his nozzle is bent on impact.

Brenda saves Frank as Barry and the other groceries catch Douche and Darren in a garbage pail strapped to propane tanks.

Afterward, Frank and his friends visit Firewater, who has had a psychedelic experience with Gum and discovered that their world is not what they think; they are merely animated characters voiced by actors in another dimension.

Additional roles were voiced by Iris Apatow, Harland Williams, Alistair Abell, Sugar Lyn Beard, Ian James Corlett, Michael Daingerfield, Brian Dobson, Michael Dobson, Ian Hanlin, Maryke Hendrikse, Nicole Oliver, Kelly Sheridan, Jason Simpson, Vincent Tong, Sam Vincent, and directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan.

An archive recording of Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" was used to portray the singing voice of the meatloaf container resembling the singer of the same name.

[16] When Rogen originally submitted the film to the Motion Picture Association of America, they gave it an NC-17 rating due to the visibility of pubic hair on Lavash's scrotum during the climactic food orgy scene.

Once said pubic hair was removed, the film received its final R rating for "strong crude sexual content, pervasive language and drug use".

Track listing All music is composed by Alan Menken and Christopher Lennertz, except as notedSausage Party was originally set for release on June 3, 2016, but was pushed back to August 12, 2016.

[34] In the United States and Canada, Sausage Party was released on August 12, 2016, alongside Pete's Dragon and Florence Foster Jenkins, and was initially projected to gross $15–20 million from 2,805 theaters in its opening weekend.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Sausage Party is definitely offensive, but backs up its enthusiastic profanity with an impressively high laugh-to-gag ratio—and a surprisingly thought-provoking storyline.

[35][40] Vince Mancini of Uproxx wrote that "Sausage Party's most charming quality is that it feels exactly like a group of 13-year-olds trying to entertain themselves, with excessive C-bombs and constant groan-worthy food puns.

"[41] Richard Roeper gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "Despite all the cursing and envelope-pushing and bat-bleep crazy sexual stuff, Sausage Party isn't mean-spirited.

"[42] Lindsey Bahr of Associated Press gave the film a positive review, writing, "There is no one out there making comedies quite like Rogen and Goldberg.

[44][45][46] In late March 2019, the British Columbia Employment Standards Branch ruled that workers were entitled to receive overtime pay for their work on the film.

[61] Frank and Brenda, the two main characters of the film, made guest appearances in the mobile fighting game Sausage Legend, released by Milkcorp for iOS and Android, as part of a limited special event that ran from March 6 through July 31, 2017.