Cabanossi

Cabanossi (plural ) (also Kabanos (singular ), Kabanossi ( plural) or Cabanos (singular ) ) are thin elongated and cut resistant raw sausages from finely chopped beef and pork with clearly identifiable bacon. They are spicy and contain various spices, including paprika, pepper, salt and garlic. They have a characteristic reddish color, which mainly comes from the peppers addition, their taste is very spicy and mostly dominated by garlic and pepper.

The Cabanossi be either in pairs (hence plural) manufactured and offered by the meter sausage or " mini- Cabanossi ". Modern forms of distribution in self -service counters have spawned other packaging. Cabanossi among the duration sausages and therefore are long lasting without refrigeration.

Name

The origin of the Kabanoswurst and her name is still controversial; possibly the sausage Name " Kabanos " of Cabanos that shelter for the crew and their supplies come on the ship deck ( see also cabin, galley or cabin ), whose description of Caban = coat of Arabic and Sicilian Qaba = Cloak comes. Even Old French cabane, cabana Italian, Portuguese and Spanish is cabaña = Hut ( or herd ), the inhabitants of these huts are also mentioned Cabano. Sausages were already in antiquity a vital part of the ship and military Proviants.

Dissemination

The Cabanossi are throughout Southern and Eastern Europe, from the Adriatic to the Baltic States, but also in Australia and New Zealand is very popular and there one of the most frequently encountered types of dry sausage. In Central Europe it is mainly popular as a snack sausage. In Germany, outside the former crown lands of the Habsburg monarchy, the Southeast European Kabanos sausage was known only by the exiled Czech Bavarian company Houdek.