Thoughts while contemplating Vienna Sausage...

[mjr]

BerkleyB, thank you again for your memory-jogging post. I note your post is your first since you joined in 2004--be careful, you don't want to become one of those post holes (I believe that's the term).

Remember when sardine cans came with a key that was almost as long as the can and had the slot for the tab in the middle? You would roll up the entire top of the can. I was a proud little kid the first time I accomplished that without help.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I enjoyed them as a kid but had some in my 20's and almost tossed em up. I'll stick to mustard sardines, smoked oysters and kippered snacks.

Kippered snacks are da bomb!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Alpo]

Ate my last can last night , and just got back from Sams with an 18-pack. I'm safe for a little while.

 

[MKT]

Between travelingf and working nights I have been a bit remiss in keeping up with the forum. Reading Bob's post this morning sure did bring back a flood of memories.

Hunting or fishing, Vinnie Wiennies, Deviled Ham, crackers (preferably plain saltines), old pick-ups, folder seat backs, granny low running at idle and walking along/behind the moving truck. Someone else mentioned liver sausage or braunsweiger (smoked liver sausage)....love it, hate liver but love liver sausage.

I still buy deviled ham and crackers now and then and at least one of my kids likes it, the other likes liver sausage and both like Spam - they call it canned bacon .

 

[perrazi]

my first thought about any canned meat product is, "what's in this stuff."
around here we call that mystery meat. where I live, used to be the largest morrell packing plant in the country. they did everything from hogs to cattle to sheep. made dog food and all the meat products. during grade school you went on a field trip every year to the plant. the older you got, the more they would show you. to this day I will not eat hot dogs. after you see what goes in them, it turned me off right there.

 

[shouldazagged]

...careful, you don't want to become one of those post holes (I believe that's the term).

Hmmm, so that's what I am. Damn.

Caj, I'd "like" your kippered snack post twice if I could. Not the equal of real kippers, but great stuff with fine memories of my dad.

 

[mjr]

Hmmm, so that's what I am. Damn.

No, you're not. I don't think there's actually one of those on this whole forum. So keep it up!

BTW, the word "Weiner" is German for "guy from Vienna." Another fun fact to know and tell.

 

[Alpo]

Something I picked up a few years back - whether it is actually true or not I have no idea.

The hotdog was invented, almost simultaneously, in Vienna Austria and Frankfurt Germany.

In Vienna they call 'em "frankfurters" and in Frankfurt they call 'em "wieners".

It appears neither city wishes to claim 'em.

 

[shouldazagged]

How did I do this? Senile...

 

[vigil617]

BTW, the word "Weiner" is German for "guy from Vienna." Another fun fact to know and tell.

Updated definition of Weiner: German for "a guy from Vienna named Carlos Danger."

 

[cbore]

Good memories

Great story and I see the same in my thought. A bag of Vienna and potted meat with crackers stay in our 4 x4 the mo of February. Deer season would be closed here in Mississippi and nothing but rabbit hunting.

My Uncle, Dad and all the old Gentlemen now gone showed a young boy what hunting and real friends really are.

Sharing a can of Vienna or sardines with a wore out Beagle at lunch, life don't get much better. Can't remember who eat the most me or Flop and Skip (the beagles)

Thanks

 

[shouldazagged]

WARNING: TRAGIC VIENNA SAUSAGE ACCIDENT!

Knees were giving me more hell than usual the other day at Kroger, so I was using one of the electric riding shopping carts. Saw they had a loss leader running, Armour Viennas for $0.54 a can. Without standing up I reached up and grabbed four cans.

When I got home, I found they weren't the originals but the "barbecue style", in a thin, sweet faux barbecue sauce. Tried one can before taking them back and swapping them for the real thing.

Do not make this mistake. They suck.

 

[JayFramer]

Lol the kind in the spicy sauce taste pretty good but are salty.

 

[RonJ]

We used to eat Spam when I was young but I was never a big fan. My wife brought home some spreadable Spam and I found it much more palatable.
In the last couple of weeks I've re-tried most of the canned meats mentioned above and enjoyed them, but I've tired of them pretty quickly. I may keep a few cans of kipper snacks around for a quick snack or emergency.

 

[JayFramer]

It's funny you mentioned that, this very thread led me to a can of the Armour spicy Vienna sausages last week to have for lunch at work, but I messed up and forgot the saltines! Nostalgic flavor. Last time I ate a can of them was when I was working at the ATA's Grand trap shoot in Sparta Illinois. Good memories of summer heat, smell of spent shotshells, and enjoying a simpler life.

What an amazing thread, funny how food and other things can absolutely transport you back in time.

 

[bettis1]

Jay,

You are correct. I never dreamed that my opening that little can of Vienna Sausages would bring back so many memories for me and so many others.

When my brother, BerkleyB, posted about the key opener he also did a little research on that long gone item. This picture seems to be one of the first uses and I bet that it will also bring back some memories for our other older members. It is a "C Ration, B Unit" from 1941.

The ranch that I grew up on was across from the Camp Bowie Maneuvering Area in Brown County, Texas The first one that I ever opened was given to me by a German POW in a work party that used to fill their canteens at our windmill and eat their rations under a big oak there.

Bob

 

[JayFramer]

Jay,

You are correct. I never dreamed that my opening that little can of Vienna Sausages would bring back so many memories for me and so many others.

When my brother, BerkleyB, posted about the key opener he also did a little research on that long gone item. This picture seems to be one of the first uses and I bet that it will also bring back some memories for our other older members. It is a "C Ration, B Unit" from 1941.

The ranch that I grew up on was across from the Camp Bowie Maneuvering Area in Brown County, Texas The first one that I ever opened was given to me by a German POW in a work party that used to fill their canteens at our windmill and eat their rations under a big oak there.

Bob

Wow, what a great story That reminds me of a really cool website I found a few years ago but never ordered anything from. It's called "repro rations" and they make dozens of different rations from countries from WW1 to WW2, all with modern edible contents. I didn't see any complete c-rations but they offer a lot of different components. Here is the site: http://reprorations.com/