Kabanos

Kabanos (plural: Kabanosy ) is the name of a traditional Polish boiled sausage, which is made from salt pork and smoked hot. A Kabanos is relatively thin and usually has a length of about 70-80 cm. For smoking it is hung in the middle of a rod, so that two approximately 35-40 cm long sections with adjacent ends arise which are connected by an arc.

The meat comes from specially fattened for Kabanosy pigs. Kabanosy stand out among others by their brittleness at the same time relatively high fat content. In its present form, the sausages were developed in the 1920s in Poland. In the EU, it is protected as a traditional specialty guaranteed since October 2011.

The name " Kabanosy " refers to the much older, common in north-eastern Poland and Lithuania expression Kaban for fattened mainly with potatoes pigs whose meat muscle is particularly mixed. The term is also found in Adam Mickiewicz - such as in Pan Tadeusz (1834 ) - and is probably South East European origin.