[PROBLEMS] To provide an apparatus for cutting a chainlike sausage string which hardly causes edges of the cutting blades to be nicked and can efficiently and smoothly cut a chainlike sausage string wound around and suspended from a rod. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Cutting blades are provided for cutting twisted connecting portions of a chainlike sausage string including sausages and the twisted connecting portions alternately continuous, suspended from a rod, and in a state that edge surfaces of the cutting blades are brought into substantially contact with the surface of the rod, the cutting blades are moved in the longitudinal direction of the rod so that twisted connecting portions of the chainlike sausage string suspended from the rod are cut with the cutting blades, and during an operation for cutting the twisted connecting portions of the chainlike sausage string , the edges of the cutting blades are arranged so as to tilt with respect to the longitudinal direction of the rod.