How do you pronounce Vienna sausage in the South?
I was an adult when I realized that Vienna sausages were named for the famous city in Austria. You know, Vee-in-ah. That’s because, as a kid in the South, I always hear them referred to as Vie-een-ah sausages.My Granddaddy Gray, a fan of the little fellers, called them Vie-een-ah sausages.
Is it Vienna or Vienna sausage?
A Vienna sausage (German: Wiener Würstchen, Wiener; Viennese/Austrian German: Frankfurter Würstel or Würstl; Swiss German: Wienerli; Swabian: Wienerle or Saitenwurst) is a thin parboiled sausage traditionally made of pork and beef in a casing of sheep’s intestine, then given a low temperature smoking.
Why do people say Vienna sausage?
(Turns out, the word “wiener” is German for Viennese). In about 1903, at least in the U.S., “Vienna sausage” came to refer to tiny sausages similar to hot dogs, only disturbingly flesh colored. The canned versions are made largely with pork or “separated chicken.”