Thoughts while contemplating Vienna Sausage...

I never fancied Vienna sausages too well myself but I have my own memory about them.

Once when I was young I found a few cans in the cupboard, and asked my Dad why he had them around. "If you're hungry enough, you'll eat 'em". Was all he said.
 
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Aloha,

Guess what I'm going to have for Lunch now.

VS cooked in soy sauce. Everything tastes better with a dash of soy.

Here in Hawaii, they go Sale by the Case anywhere and everywhere.

Don't forget, Hawaii eats More Spam per capita than anywhere else in the World.

Had Spam & rice for breakfast this morning.
 
Years ago my neighbor and fishing partner and I used to leave home 3-4 am for the hour and a half drive trailering the boat down to Grand Isle La. Once we got going he'd pop the cap off of a can of Viennas and drink the juice, then he'd finish them off straight out of the can. He was an old time Cajun with a cast iron stomach probably aquired during the depression or in the Pacific in WWII. RIP my old friend.
Steve W
 
RonJ said:
When my cousins and I would go out trekking the country side we carried one of the Big Three. Vienna Sausages, Spam or Potted Meat. Much better than a limp boloney sandwich. We usually carried water but sometimes we'd stop for a nickle coke at a gas station. Good stuff!
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Yep my favorites when we use to go huntin' and fishin' Potted Meat on saltines, Spam gets fried for me, Vienna Sausages right out of the can first one was always the hardest to get out.:D Ah the good ol days when you didn't know that type of food is bad for ya.
 
Insipid,slimy, briny,mushy with a chemical tinny tang......now give me a large tin of Norwegian Fisk Ballen,a raw onion and some flat bread and I'
ll show you how to eat in the woods.
 
Yup...you described the menu perfectly. Can't remember how many times a tin of Vienna sausage, a handful of crackers, and a good chunk of rat cheese (extra sharp) were the fair of the day, tucked in a canvas sack in my saddle bags. There was always the canteen of water hanging on the saddle horn. I'd usually try to find a shady place, tie up the horse, and have a leisurely lunch.

Thanks for the memories. Hmmm....might go rummaging through the pantry right now to see if I can find some Vienna sausage. Sounds good.
 
Great post and brings back memories of my childhood as well. I can remember many fall and winter days hiking and hunting with my father. I had an old army surplus gas mask bag (remember the old army-navy stores?) that I'd stuff with a can of Vienna Sausages, saltine crackers and a canteen of water.

Dad had an old '78 Jeep pickup so rusted that you could lift up the floor mats and spit out on the road!



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Vienna sausages were a favorite snack when I spent summers with Grandma & Grandpa in Salina, Kansas.

Have 3 or 4 cases in the house right now. Think I'll go have a can or three... ;)
 
I read every one of these posts and you guys (especially Bob) sure bring back a lot of memories. Of all things my wife and I had Vienna Sausage sandwiches last week. It was her idea if you can believe that.

Don't forget potted meat, potted ham, and spam. All good.

My barber brings potted meat and vienna sausage sandwiches for his lunch. Old habits are hard to break.
 
I still have Vienna sausages for a snack lunch from time to time.
Potted meat, too!!

My Mom, bless her country soul, always pronounced Vienna sausage as "Vie - een - er sausages".
 
Never ever ever eat vyennies .... unless you're out in a boat, frying in the sun. Then they are the best thing going. With Zesta crackers of course, and maybe a NeHi grape.


thanks Bob

Charlie
 
YogiBear said:
Aloha,

Guess what I'm going to have for Lunch now.

VS cooked in soy sauce. Everything tastes better with a dash of soy.

Here in Hawaii, they go Sale by the Case anywhere and everywhere.

Don't forget, Hawaii eats More Spam per capita than anywhere else in the World.

Had Spam & rice for breakfast this morning.
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Used to get Spam Musabi at the Pearl Shipyard - great lunch!
 
FWIW, the Viennese skin their sausages. So, yes, they do eat Vienna sausages.

The firewall had rusted out on our pickup, so it was more than warm driving the kukes to the Heinz plant in Windsor.
 
Great memories.

I remember hunting in Ga. from tree stands with my Dad and having them. Nose sickles in the clean mountain air. I couldn't have been happier.

My Grandfather in Miami always had them on the boat. Salt spray in my nose. I was in heaven.

Funny, I don't eat mystery meat anymore but it sure brings back memories.

BTW, They say scent is one of the strongest memories.
 
DeathGrip said:
BTW, They say scent is one of the strongest memories.
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It's a fact: scent plugs directly into memory, quicker thany any other sense.

One whiff of bread baking or chicken frying and I'm back in my grandmother's kitchen in East Tennessee. Time travel, instantaneously.

Unfortunately it also works with the smell of a Rallyburger...:eek::(
 
Once in awhile, we have a surprisingly sophisticated thread on matters culinary, reflecting the refined tastes of some forum members ( a nod to S&W Chad is here in order). This, sadly, has not been among them. Vienna Sausages, and similar meat-resembling industrial waste products, are probably the inspirational half of the comparison of the distasteful similarities of sausage-making and legislating. The necessity (?) of having to scrape off the Vaseline-like gelatinous goo from the pathetic little pink wieners ought to be sufficient warning to all but the most depraved of tastes...
 
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