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Food in the Field gives a sneak peek into what CNN's team is eating, and the food culture they encounter as they travel the globe. Jeremy Harlan is a CNN photojournalist. He has a hungry baby. I know how this scene goes. You stroll into the convenience store looking for your typical travel snacks: Teriyaki beef jerky, pepperoni pizza Combos and a Diet Dr. Pepper. And as you peruse the aisle just to make sure there's not a sweet treat that suits your fancy, you catch a glimpse of some canned goods: microwavable beef ravioli, potted meat, and Vienna Sausages. "Bleh, Vienna sausages. Seriously? Who in the world eats that?" Allow myself to introduce myself. My name is Jeremy Harlan and I do love me some Vienna Sausages. They are my perfect finger snack for long driving assignments. And in my humble opinion, they are a cornerstone of any quality convenience store. (I'm talking to you, Sheetz.) Why do I like them? I can't give a specific reason, I just enjoy prying them out of the can and eating them one by one. But, I am certainly not alone in enjoying these pink-toned, pinkie-sized treats. Armour Star, which first started producing Vienna Sausages sometime just before 1900, sells over 200 million cans in North and South America each year. The Armour plant in Fort Madison, Iowa produces enough sausages in a year to circle the Earth four times. My history with them goes back to when I was a small tyke visiting my great-grandmother's house in Baytown, Texas. I don't remember a whole bunch from those summer visits. But I'll never forget it was humid as heck, the oil refinery behind her house smelled awful, and I spent many an afternoon eating Vienna Sausages washed down with Tang. It was Houston, what else would I be drinking? As I got older, I didn't get many chances to eat them and what canned meat I did have was mostly Spam. My dad never turned down a grilled Spam and mustard sandwich. So when he wanted a Spam sandwich for lunch, I ate a Spam sandwich for lunch. There were not too many Vienna sausages to be had. Then came 2005. In my second full year at CNN, I got a full helping of hurricane coverage. I was IN four major hurricanes, starting with Hurricane Dennis in Ft. Walton Beach, FL and finishing with Hurricane Wilma in Naples, FL. I spent the better part of six months in New Orleans covering Katrina and its horrific aftermath. For those not in our business, I'll tell you our diet during hurricane assignments is pretty limited to granola bars, Pop Tarts, trail mix, beef jerky, peanut butter crackers, water and sports drinks. Essentially, it's whatever we can scoop up at the local Wal-Mart that doesn't require a utensil and hasn't already been ripped from the shelves by residents. During Katrina, it was even less. I spent the five days immediately after the storm consuming nothing but orange Gatorade and Imodium. When it's late-August and there is no power or plumbing in a Crescent City under several feet of water, all you're hoping to do is stay hydrated. After a couple days covering the delayed evacuation of Charity Hospital, I finally had a chance to leave New Orleans for a small reprieve in Baton Rouge. When I arrived in the state capital, I immediately went searching for food. What did I find at the makeshift CNN work space? Cans of my mini-frank friends. After almost a week of no food, those Vienna Sausages tasted like dry-aged ribeye. Can after can, I ripped open pull tab lids, drained the broth, and devoured those sausages. They never tasted so good. CNN eventually published a book commemorating our work in Louisiana and Mississippi. Pictures in the book showed my coworkers enduring tough conditions along the Gulf Coast while still newsgathering. Some are seen shooting interviews standing knee-high in sewage; others trying to hold down a tent while rescue military helicopters fly over their heads. What is my big moment of glory in the book? Sitting next to Sanjay Gupta, stuffing my face with Vienna Sausages while he logs video we shot at Charity Hospital. Oh well. Days after that photo was taken, the finger sausages got me into a bit of trouble. Back in downtown New Orleans, I was now addicted to eating Vienna links as much as possible. I walked into an RV, parked on Canal Street, being used as a workspace for many of our correspondents and crews. I figured it would be a perfect spot, out of the heat, to have a snack. I snuck back to the bathroom, ripped open the lid, poured the juice down the drain, and turned towards the front of the RV. There to meet me was a fuming Nic Robertson. For a good two minutes, CNN's well-respected senior international correspondent ripped into me about pouring that liquid down the drain. This was a work location/sleep spot for a lot of people and now it was going to smell like Vienna Sausages thanks to me. I may be 6'5" tall, but at that moment, I felt as tall as one of those sausages. I sheepishly walked out the RV and made it a point to stay away from him the remaining time he was in New Orleans. Subconsciously, I also hid my liking of the canned wieners for many years. There's been many a time on a road assignment that I've bought a can or two out of view of my producer and correspondent. When the moment was right and they weren't around, I'd quickly inhale my stash. It's as if I'm some kind of junkie ashamed of my problem. Well, the first step in healing is admitting your addiction. So here I am, telling everyone that I love Vienna sausages and I am proud to say so. I'm sure I'm not alone in my affection for the canned meat links. In fact, I imagine there are many folks afraid to admit they enjoy other food products frowned upon by much of society. Someone out there has to be eating pork rinds, potted meat and pickled chicken feet. So here's your chance to let it out. What's your favorite gastro guilty pleasure folks might say, "Ugh, really?" |
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So you don't feel so bad..I just went shopping bought all organic food and then got home and ate the ONE can of Vienna Sausages I bought. I love them too!! I only eat them a few times a year. If they are all meat product regardless of the part of the animal they would be okay...I think it's the process they take to make them...maybe bleaching the meat or something who knows. A few cans a year won't give you cancer.
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Fried Spam sandwich with mustard.... good memories. As a kid, in a military family of 5, we ate a lot of VS and potted meat for lunch during the summers. Since then, I've eaten Vienna Sausages while backpacking, camping and after a hurricane. You eat what you can when you have no refrigeration. I leave buy a few cans in June as part of the annual hurricane kit and know that by November, if I am a lucky Floridian, I can pop open the can for some memories of childhood, rather than praying that the utility company gets the power lines restrung.
Those of you that turn your nose up at them, might as well pass by that next hot dog or sausage also. Same ingredients, same process. I've eaten "worse" things..... fried crickets in Japan. Not horribly awful, but once was enough. Just pass the sushi please.
When I worked in rural eastern north carolina (not the pretty, beachy part, the flat, swampy, hog-farm part), people called them Vy-EEna sausages. It took me months to figure out what they were saying.
Are Viennna sausages really imported from Vienna?
yes dear, of course they are
I eat liver, kidney, heart, neck, tail, tongue, and whatever they put into hotdogs. I’ve eaten goat, alligator, ostrich, buffalo, pig, cow, chicken, turkey, rabbit (reminds me of a cat when skinned & gutted), wild boar, pheasant, octopus, kangaroo, turtle, frog, fried grasshoppers, chocolate covered ants, squid in its own ink, too many kinds of fish to list, and a wonderful Polish sausage called kiszka (keesh-ka). My favorite is made by Kowalski, originally from Hamtramck, MI. It’s ground up pig snouts, soaked in beef blood with barley and seasonings. It’s sold fully cooked and it’s way better tasting (IMHO) and better looking than German blood wurst.
Oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo my husband likes these!
When I was in Afghanistan, Vienna Sausages made a pretty good snack. Pair it with a can of beans or some chef boyardee and you got yourself a decent spread. Beats the hell out of Army chow any day.
I have eaten Vienna sausages for at least the last 10 years. I personally like the Libby brand better than Armour. That aside the when and way that I consume a can of the sausages is: 1 It is my midnight snack before going to bed – I sleep better on a full stomach- 2 right next to my sausages is a bottle of Hershey's syrup – I put a sausage in my mouth chug a bit of chocolate syrup chew and vola a great chocolate mousse slides down my throat. I love this way of devouring Vienna sausages. I have never found anyone that shares my love of this mid-night snack.
and this is why america is fat, thank you.
Great article...we all have "road food" that terrifies our mothers/spouses/GFs/lovers.
And I learned that Nic Robertson is a twit.
Bleh
Im hardly a 'foodie'.Id consider myself more of a garbage disposal
Ive lived off of fast food.Ive eaten other peoples leftovers
If it wasnt for drive thru Id starve to death
Vienna sausages and potted meat taste like rotting garbage.They take the worst of the meat from whatevers left of the animal and grind it into a paste and form sausage links with it.Whenever I eat that or hot dogs I have to scrape my tongue to get the taste out of my mouth.
But I do like liver.Who am I to judge?
When I go fishing or hunting... someplace where my canned meat breath will be enjoyed only by me, I like to stop and get a can of potted meat, a can of sardines, and a can of Vienna sausages to enjoy on crackers with a little Louisiana hot sauce and/or mustard. Simply delicious!
I grew up eating Vienna Sausages, and must admit they are a guilty pleasure of mine as well. My dad and his side of the family are all from Beaumont TX and Crenshaw County Alabama, so there was never a shortage of canned meat products. Me and my cousins would be given a couple cans of Vienna Sausages and a sleeve of saltine crackers to split among us and have as a snack between lunch and dinner. When I got older I would hear people make fun of Vienna Sausages and talk about how disgusting they were, and how they were made of left-over parts of animals, and so on and so forth, so I would never admit out-loud to anyone my liking for them. But secretly I would go off on my own with my can of sausages and sleeve of saltine crackers and induldge in my guilty pleasure. I never cared for Spam or Treet though, but my dad loved them and used to make fried Spam or Treet sandwiches and as a result of that my brother is a fried Treet sandwich junkie and his pantry is never without a couple cans of the stuff. I've got to go to the store to pick up a few things tonight, and thanks to this article Vienna Sausages have made their way onto my shopping list.
Guilty Pleasure: Leftover gravy scooped up by salty potato chips! (Porkchop gravy is the best!)
Best consumed with a coca cola in a glass bottle.
You have to try the arroz con salchichas (rice with vienna sausage) it is delicious. You will need 2 cups white rice, 1 3/4 cups water, 3 cans vienna sausages, 8 oz tomato sauce, 2 tspfull Goya Recaito, 2 tsp olive oil, 1 tsp salt, half an envelope of Sazon Goya with coriander and annatto. To prepare put oil and salt in pot on medium heat, when it sizzles add tomato sauce, Sazon Goya and Goya recaito let it simmer. Add.sausages with the liquid from one can only (or it can get too salty) let it simmer. Then add rice and water. Once the water evaporates put on lowest heat and cover. The rice will continue to cook for about 15-20 minutes, keep it low mix it up a couple of times until rice is soft. Hopefully it will come out good and enjoy. If you decide to try it again play with the salt and sausage juice since it can get salty.
well...on the list of things I would eat: vienna sausages, spam, liver, liverwurst, chicken (turkey) liver, gizzards, hearts, necks, deviled ham, sardines (with horseradish and yellow mustard on crackers YUM!), any stinky cheese (as I sit here at my desk eating a chunk of pecorno romano...lol) pickeled eggs, pickeled onions, sweetbreads, frog's legs, pickeled herring, sushi, sashimi...
what I won't eat: raisins and caviar. go figure!
I've had a can of vienna sausage in the refrigerator for months. I have been saving it for that late night moment when I just had to have a tasty snack. Nothing else in the apartment to eat and too late to get dressed and run a mile for a small treat.
My wife read aloud how you got hooked on Vienna Sausage , I then had to respond . The can is now open . I am happy. AND now I'll have to run to the store and replace that can. What can I say , it is all your fault. I eat Vienna sausage now.
Thanks .
When I was a little kid both of my parents worked. They left plenty of food at home including hot dogs, Smokey Links, Vienna Sausages, and Spam. I used to spear the Smokey Links with a fork and heat them over the gas burner on the stove. The Vienna Sausages were my favorite to take to Rouge Park (Detroit). I would build a bonfire and heat them over the fire on the end of a stick. The hot dogs I slit open, inserted a strip of American cheese and cooked in the broiler on a slice of bread. I thought I was eating like a king. My father was intoduced to Spam during WWII combat conditions. He considered it a delicacy from then on. My wife, a native of Germany, fries it up with lots of Hot Sauce. So, yeah canned meat has its place.
I'm gonna send Nic Robertson a can of vienna sausages.
... and some cheese to go with his whine.
While serving 2 tours of duty in Viet Nam, I would regularly request that my Mom send me care packages that contained, among many things, Frank's Louisiana Hot Sauce and vienna sausages. They tasted, as described in this article, like aged ribeye steak compared to some of the C rations that we had. And, of course, everything tastes better when smothered in hot sauce. That's probably why I can't eat hot foods now. Burned the lining of my stomach up those many years ago.
I'd rather eat a can or two of vienna sausages than a McRib sandwich anyday! McRibs = Scarry!
When I was a kid in the 60's we call them Vy-ee-nuh sausages. Most southern people used that pronuciation, I think. I liked to slice them in half and make a sandwich out of 4 of them with white bread and mustard. Then I would eat the rest of them by themselves. I love Spam too. I still eat it to this day, usually with Kraft Macaroni and Cheese (not the deluxe kind, ick.) Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is my favorite food ever. It made me who I am today :-).
I used to work at Family Dollar and one boring night we decided to read the ingredients on the back of a can of "Potted Meat Food Product". It was the most disgusting thing I've ever read. We sold Vienna Sausages right next to it, and I always assumed they were similar. Glad I was never fed them as a child, as they sound both disgusting and addicting.
This article made me laugh. Thanks.
I used to have a vienna sausage ritual I'd carry out with a wolf-dog I had the honor of knowing. It started when he and I were homeless, back when vienna sausages were cheap. I'd get a can, and then we'd split it, the wolf-dog and I. I'd sit down on the ground next to him, open the can, and eat the first one, then I'd feed him one, then I'd have one, then he got his. We'd go through a can like this and that was lunch. In later years, in an improved economic situation, both of us with houses of our own, we'd still have the sausage ritual twice a month.
The wolf-dog passed away a little over 5 years ago, and I have eaten a vienna sausage since.
Typo correction: That would be I haven't eaten a vienna sausage since.
baloney = bologna
UNREAL!!!!!!!!!
Latin is a dead language. It will never change or evolve. English is very much alive and is constantly evolving. How else would "doh!" make it's way into the Oxford English Dictionary and "anchor baby" get into American Heritage Dictionary. There's nothing saying the spelling of "bologna" will not evolve and have an alternate spelling of b-a-l-o-n-e-y some day. I'm just sayin'.
So by this theory I can spell things however I choose, because there is nothing to say that in the future my spelling will not be accurate. Correct?
Some people are amazing. There can't be God if people are this stupid.
*hands over a bottle of Nair*
Here. This will be a good start on getting that hair out of your a$$ ... you're welcome.
A while backk I heard an English expert (from England) tell how their dictionaries carry all of the common spellings/mispellings of words and how they thought it odd that we Americans tried to stick with a correct spelling. I couldn't help but think that their dictionaries must be HUGE:)
I am HUGE.
@ John Homes: I thnk you meant John Holmes. He's dead. Which leads me to think you're probably more like one of those Gerber's Meat Sticks.
Pickers of nits are usually hu ng like squirrels, too.
I'm here for you Jeremy. I have cans of them hidden all over the house. I do good for awhile then I find my fingers right back in the can. Some times I binge and only after 6-8 cans do they start tasting a little less good. I have found a lot support in the local VSA chapter. These people really understand and I came to realize with their help you just can't do it alone.
Two words: Hot Baloney.
My dad grew up dirt poor during the Dust Bowl. Four decades later and relatively prosperous, he would still serve fried baloney and eggs for breakfast. I need to cook that for my kids in the morning and relive those days.
Taco-flavored Doritos or white cheddar Chip-Ins (popcorn chips) for dessert. My husband thinks I'm weird for wanting something salty for dessert. I think he's weird for thinking that way. But to avoid the argument, I indulge when he's out of town.
I love the little potted meat that the company makes. I forget about it though, and only buy it once in a blue moon...but it's delicious. I actually had some cans of it and the little sausages a few years ago at Christmas and my son thought they were the awesome. I think I'll pick up some more this year. Thanks for sharing your story and reminding me how tasty this stuff is.
Jeremy,
A wonderful story, and judging by the hundreds of comments, you really touched a nerve. I now know what to watch out for next time we go on a shoot together. My gastronomic "guilty pleasure" is baloney and raspberry jelly sandwiches. I hated peanut butter and my mom wasn't some protein-hating, narrow-minded vegan so she experimented with baloney. The sweetness of the jelly and the salty baloney were a great match. I don't eat them anymore because I rarely eat sandwiches at all. But if the opportunity presented itself, I'd go for it.
Taylor Pork Roll in New Jersey! My mom would slice it (gotta get it out of that cloth casing), fry it, and serve it slathered with Miracle Whip with the bread toasted. Yummy yummy from my childhood in the 50s.
Oh, and potato sticks - like chips, but just sticks. Used to come in bags. salty and dee-licious.
Gimme a side of Cheetos for color, please. Love to lick that off my fingers....
I am still crying that this thread has not been taken down yet. Eating meat of ANY kind is cruel and barbaric, but to celebrate it??? How cruel can you all be?
You have made me cry for so long today. Please promise me that you all will pledge to a vegan lifestyle going forward.
Wow...those of us who do eat meat respect (in most cases) your choice not to. The least you could do is show us the same respect in our choice to eat meat. If you don't like the fact that every once in a while a little celebration is in order then you don't have to read the post.
Funny you say that.. Consider people who are starving and have little to eat. Think they would care of someone handed them a vienna sausage? How about you try living in their shoes and not in your opportunistic, self centered world where you probably eat all those hypocritical things vegans seem to like to eat like tofurkey..
P.S. I hear vegans aren't all that bad.. Supposedly they taste like chicken, guess they could be useful for something! GET A LIFE!
Again...PETA: People Eating The Animals
Oh please. If you were starving you'd eat it. People eat insects to survive. Please stop preaching - veggie is good, but preachers like you give VEGAN a bad name.
Ok, I read this article and thought, "Meh. Vienna Sausages? Really?"
But now I'm going to go buy a can of the awful things tomorrow afternoon and eat them whole, just on the off chance that it might make a silly, self-righteous Vegan like you cry.
Humans are omnivores, deal with it. You can't act like others are barbaric just because they don't follow along with your arbitrary diet decisions.
PETA = People for the Eating of Tasty Animals. After all, if G-D didn't want us to eat animals, why then are they made out of meat?
Define a "Vegan lifestyle"...
I have one question....do you drive a car? Have you ever run over an animal? Or had a bug splatter all over your windshield? Cause that bug had a face, which got flattened all over the front bumper of your prius.
So before you start asking for people to live differently, maybe you should take a look at how YOU live and decide if you are ok with the disconnect of how you expect other people to live and how you yourself live.
I too love all of God's creatures! Especially with mashed potatos and gravy!
Get a life! Most of us don't care what you choose to eat or not to eat! The article was meant as a humorous little story. Try not to get your panties in a bunch over a little humor!
BTW, I used to eat Vienna Sausage sandwiches and Potted Meat sandwiches as a child. Brings back memories.
Wow, I think some of you who are attacking Vegan4Life
don't realize it's someone obviously trying to be funny/sarcastic.
I agree, but it's frightening how absurd you have to go to be an obvious satirist nowadays.
Yep! Sometimes it takes 8 or 10 posters before someone realizes they're getting their legs pulled. Sometimes people never get it. And that, my friends, is part of the fun!
Loved this article! I love canned sardines in mustard sauce with saltine crackers.
This is exactly the reason we need to make OBAMA a ONE TERM PRESIDENT!! Get our country back from eating stupid vienna sausages – and get the jobs trickle down..
What a stupid, boorish political display you've shown. You do realize Hurricane Katrina happened under Bush's watch?
I like them. I and my cousin call them "Monkey wieners".
Not sure that I could eat these nowadays – haven't had one in probably close to 50 years. We weren't 'poor', but we certainly weren't rich. One of the staples of my take-to-school-lunches was Vienna Sausage sandwiches. Bread, margarine, Miracle Whip, VS's sliced in half. Over the years, I got to where I couldn't even look at one of those sandwiches – PBJ sandwiches lost their appeal long before that.
Nowadays, my favorite back-country snack (while doing photography) is Kipper Snacks. I know that there are those who hate those as much, or more, as VS's. Nic Robertson would really have complained about the juice from the KS's going down the drain!
I'd have laughed at Nic Robertson. If he could complain about the smell of Vienna Sausages while covering Katrina, he had a problem with his priorities.
Just a bit more: what would he have said if you'd used the toilet for it's intended purpose if he complained about your use of the sink for that? :-D :-D :-D I hope he's clued in more now.
I like to eat Gerber Meat Sticks. Just like Vienna Sausages, but somehow seems healthier. Not so easy getting them out of the jar, though. If you can get the center one out in one piece, you're home free.
Steve C. is hilarious!!
I used to sit up and eat pickeled pigs feet with my dad. Now days can't bring myself to even look at a jar of them, and yes they still sell them in stores. lol
LOL @ Gingerpeach – your comment brought back a most unpleasant memory. My (now ex-)husband eats pickled pigs feet and buttermilk – at the same time. I'm thinking that's a certain recipe for gastric disaster, but he seems to suffer no ill effects. When I was newly pregnant, he tried to get me to eat a piece of pickled pigs foot – one look at that weird-looking, cartilage-filled, gelatinous mess on a fork was enough to turn my already touchy stomach....and then the smell hit me square in the face. (shudder)
Well-written. Excellent narration and timing. Funny as hell.
You should try pickled eggs; they're found in just about every mom & pop store in the country, especially in northern New England. As one local humorist put it, "You'll find them in a large jar about half full of murky liquid. And you always wondered what they used to fish them out with; and what were they using it for, before that? I tell you: if I were starving to death on a desert island, and I climbed up over a hill and saw a jar of them 'pickled eggs'; I'd keep right on crawling."
My guilty pleasure: Girl Scout cookies... particularly SAMOAS! LOVE those things... they are like CRACK to me!! I can wipe out an entire box without even blinking! I firmly believe if there is a heaven, they have all SAMOAS you care to eat!!
A few years ago, I got my boyfriend hooked on them as well... BIG mistake! So now, I have no one to talk me down. It also doesn't help that when they are in "season" all the grocery stores have the little pushers waiting at the door for me. Who would have guessed that sheer doom is 4 foot tall and dressed in green: "Hey lady... wanna buy some GIRL SCOUT COOKIES?" **looks up with puppy dog eyes** **blink** **blink** They are so cute, it is even harder to hold fast to my will power and say "no"... thinking of all the time spent on treadmills is no match. Then there are the people at work. Several parents are pushing cookies FOR their kids and it makes it even MORE convenient! UG! I can't escape... not that I REALLY want to but, I try my best to limit my intake of the dark chocolate, coconut and caramel deliciousness to only 3 boxes. Of course my epic sweet tooth of a boyfriend only compunds the problem; he has NO will power. Every time I come home, he searches all the grocery bags like a blood hound and pouts like a little kid if I didn't "score".
Most of the time, I will stash the last box for a "rainy day" in July. Of course, he got wind of this practice and rips through the freezer when no one is home. Upon discovery of my hiding spot; promtly consumes his prize. I can see him doing his victory dance this very moment:"Ha! Ha! Look what POPPA found!! OOOO! BAM! YEEEEEEAAAAH!!" I always know he has found them because the ripped open box is left on the counter (along with the coconut crumbs) as a spoil of war with one or two little surviors left... and I am lucky get those. He has been the victor three years running. UG! FOILED YET AGAIN! If he was on a level playing field, he would eat them all, get rid of the evidence and wait for me to look for them on that rainy day... THEN do his "THAT'S RIGHT! I ate them... WOOOOOOO!" end zone celebration. But then, men don't think like women...
Girl Scout Cookie season starts in about a month... let the games begin! This year, I have a BRILLIANT place to hide them. Accoridngly, VICTORY IS MINE!!
Try this homemade recipe for Samoa's from instructibles.com
http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Samoas-Recipe/
Keebler sells cookies that are exactly the same as the Samoas and you can get them year round
Uncle George – Yer killing me!!
Yeah, I know Keebler has cookies similar to Samoas BUT, they are not the same. Keebler uses milk chocolate, the Girl Scout Samoas are made with dark chocolate. RAWR!!
Thank you, Tha Chikin and Jeremy Harlan for giving me a laugh on a day when I really needed it! By the way, I am also a HUGE fan of the Samoas. Additionally, I am a college instructor, and I think both narratives were well written. Thank you for the laughs!
Okay – Cheetos dipped in mustard! Sausage bisquit with mustard!
Armour vienna sausage ingredients: Mechanically Separated Chicken, Water, Beef, Pork, Salt, Corn Syrup, Less Than 2%: Mustard, Spices, Natural Flavorings, Dried Garlic, Sodium Nitrite.
Sounds like prison food. Enjoy American gourmets and stay unhealthy!
At least that's what the official list says.
Everyone knows there is more – use your imagination.....
Bon Appetit !
To eat or not to eat, the PRICE of these "so called' gross foods are making them a delicacy. Vienna Sausages used to be three cans for a dollar is now 75 cents up or 50 cent on sale (now think–200 million sold). And that "SOUSE" meat that is made from scrap meats, spices and vinegar, IS $6.00 a pound here in Indiana. And yes, the Pork Skins and Sardines are "Good Eats" and good for the body. Ever wonder why certain people seem to NEVER BE SICK, HUMMMMMMMMM!
For real, I remember when the butcher would throw away the Ox tail, now about $10.00 for one (so good)
Great when I was a kid and went fishing with my daddy. Always had a can or two of these, saltine crackers, and texas pete hot sauce. Wouldn't dare touch it now, but hey great childhood memory.
My granddaddy used to bring Vienna sausage and saltines when he'd take me fishing on the bayou when I was just a wee tyke.
(Oh, and bottles of Coke in the ice chest, where we put the fish).
I am not a southerner. They are my secret comfort food. I have 2 cans in the pantry right now.
I tell no one.
Or did, until now.
Thank you for letting me reveal my darkest secret ... lol ....
I swear, the rest of my life is a monument to sophistication.
Haven't eaten one in years, but this article makes me want to sneak out and buy a can. Pour that hot sauce over the top then slowly pick them out and dip back into the can to get it hotter. lol. Yummy. Now it is all sushi, soy, and sav blanc.
I grew up eating these with my grandfather when I was young and I would see him during Summer. Every time I asked him what they are made out of, he always called them "unborn calf". To this day, we still call them that and sit together and will eat some. Unfortunately, they are about the worst thing you can put in your body so my grandfather isn't able to eat much since his body is breaking down. But, I always love the memories of my Summers and eating unborn calf with my grandfather.
I loved this article – really honest. LOL
I loved the comments more – FOFLOL
We have canine teeth for a reason. ...and with third generation Eastern European roots, yes, no animal or vegetable part ever went to waste. Fried pig rind, head cheese, pickles, I've eaten a lot, had Chilean Sea Bass for lunch, will have salmon for dinner; you can have conditioned food aversions and food addictions, but anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger, and sate your hunger – to each his own.
I have eaten meat, fish, crustaceans, octopus, sea urchin, sea cucumber, emu, ostrich, alligator, snake, – yum.
Vegans choose as a matter or personal choice – that's OK with me; but I have a personal hairdresser that visits us at home, and she can always spot a vegan. They don't have enough protein to properly form hair. She will shampoo and/or cut it, but refuses to dye or otherwise treat it- it falls out.
So many responses, so much grist for the mill! Eat what makes you feel good, but balance the diet.
My dad said while in the Air Force in Alaska during the Korean War they were known as "monkey peters." Flash forward 60 years and my 5-year old begged to have some in her sack lunch. Her teacher asked what was she eating, of course she replied what she knew them as. Needless to say the note home was not kind.
LOL that is great!!
This is e-journalism 2011. What a waste of the English language. This comment included.
Man, but you people eat some disgusting stuff. Could not do that to my own body, but hey, if that is your thing, can I have your wife after you vaporlock at age 35.....?
My wife is 300lbs and eats pig feet dipped in mayo. You can have her
Yeah, it's a terrible thing to live life to the fullest. I don't know how you can live life being so anal about things, but to each his own I guess.
Why? Can't find a woman on your own? That sucks.
Man, but you people eat some disgusting stuff. Could not do that to my own body, but hey, if that is your thing, can I have your wife after you vaporlock at age 35...?
I just saw a video that was about ghetto tamales ... raman noodles and Doritos crushed and mixed in a bag with the raman broth. Let bag sit and then enjoy. Haven't tried it yet but looks interesting.
Ah, yes – Baron Ambrosia's 'Prison Food' episode. Available online for those who search on his name. Hilarious. I think.
He just did a special on The Cooking Channel, so he may have hit the big time.
Vienna is the English name for Wiener, where wiener sausages were invented (no relation to the Congressman with the same junk, er, name). We call them hot dogs in the US. A hot dog wiener is the same food item as a wiener sausage: sausage meat cooked in an inedible casing, which is removed after cooking. The only difference is the canned wieners are made mostly of separated chicken, while hot dogs are mostly separated pork and/or beef.
Your post is full of inaccuracies. Wiener is German as well as Austrian for a person from Vienna. A Weiner Shnitzel is a cutlet made in the Viennese tradition. Hot dogs can be made from anything. When I was a kid we used to get some really good ones made with tuna.
Great article!
My earliest memories of Vienna sausages is hunting and fishing with my dad and devouring them along with crackers. It's just about all my dad packed when we went out for the weekend. I love them too.
Gotta admit... I still love Spaghetti Os even though I'm 32 years old. I also love canned smoked oysters (on a pretzel, with horseradish mustard or sriracha).
GREAT article!! Bakettes original pork rinds and a can of Dad's root beer is my once-a-decade (not really) guilty food pleasure! However in my youngin' days, I used to eat Vienna sausages with Tahitian Punch or Doritoes (corn) with canned cold bean dip or Spam fried rice. BTW...the word "potted meat" cracks me up to no end...I like to say it in a British accent.
People think preserved food is some kind of modern abomination, but that's what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate–they dried, smoked, salted, pickled, fermented, and used any method they could to keep the food edible. It's not like they could go to their local Whole Foods. They would have appreciated the idea behind Vienna sausages. I'm not saying it's healthy to eat all the time, but the human race would never have survived without food preservation techniques like this. They are as authentic a part of our culinary heritage as any other.
Ding Ding Ding! At last, a voice of reason!
LOLOL equating preserves in a can to salting or smoking.... THIS IS CRAZY! NOTHING our ancestors made would survive in a metal tin on a shelf for 10 years.
People defend modern day poisons like they pose no threat. WE KNOW THEY CAUSE CANCERS AND OBESITY! LOOK HOW UGLY AND FAT AMERICANS ARE...
You don't have to be fat to be ugly, Todd. Ugly is on the inside too. Your comments are proof of that, sir.
Its good he was next to Dr. Sanjay Gupta while eating all those Vienna Sausages - so when he has a heart attack he'll be in good hands. By the way, though I think they are tasty, I've been told the Viennese would never touch those things ;-).
I don't care for the sausages but my sister and I, when we were very young, would eat cottage cheese with grape jelly mixed in. I guess that was the only way mom could get us to eat the cottage cheese. Kind of disgusting now that I think about it! How about Oreos dipped in ketchup? That was another one I used to eat. Found it by mistake.
Nothing weird about a kid eating grape jelly in cottage cheese. I used to do the same thing with raspberry jam. And today the shelves are filled with yogurt cups with fruit in the bottom which is not so very different. By the way the new Greek yogurt from Dannon (Oiko's, I think) is very good and the cup is be enough for my dog's snout to fit into. He cleans it out. We wash it and recycle.
Love them too...we call them tiny hot dogs!
vienna is not halal hence haram. ye'll shall be forbidden to eat.
Anderson Cooper put one of the Victoria Secret models on his "ridiculist" for her "diet" but yours is worse than hers! :-)
GUILTY. I love vienna sausages, pork rinds, pickled okra and pretty much anything fried. My cholesterol was 144 during my last checkup (3 months ago). I have eaten this stuff since I was a small child while fishing from early morning to late evening with my dad. I miss you Daddy!!!
Me too Rachel. Though my daddy always brought a can of sardines and those I could not stomach. Haha.
When I was growing up in the 60's, my mom made us "meat" and cabbage. We all loved it! When I got married, I asked my mom what the "meat" was in the "meat" and cabbage so I could make it. She said it was Spam but didn't want to tell us because she didn't think we'd eat it any more if we knew what it was. I make it for my husband now, the guy who says it's @$$holes and lips and, even though he knows now what it is, he still eats it and loves it too.
lips and buts baby, all the ugly cuts get stuffed in there.....the only thing better/nastier is pepperoni which is just all the little nugs of cartilage etc that get swept off of the floor...
My wife thinks I'm sick but I LOVE a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich mixed with a bolonga sandwhich. Made into one.
Spread the Peanut butter on the balonoga, add lettuce, now here's the flavor, mix the jelley and real Mayonnaise together a dash of salt..
It's addicitive man!
I love canned sardines packed in Louisanna hot sauce on crackers.
I just love those little devils on a cracker washed down with a cold beer. Mmmmmm!!!
I'm right there with you, bud.
...coming off of 7 day fast tomorrow morning.....just had water for a week......what a rollercoaster ride of internal amalgamations....feeling great (the 5th and 7th days always do).......going to go out on a limb here and take the wild guess that every single person posting on this entire board who mentions eating these things and eating sodas/crackers/chips/processed packages has never ever done a fast in their entire life. Am I right? It just isn't part of your 'culture' right? Oh, but because some company made some product that you had when you were little or your parents ate, then that is part of your culture and you should eat it and teach your children? LOL, people are so lazy and so RULED BY THEIR HYPOTHALAMUS its sickening and sad :( The overriding theme here is that junk and crap food are okay because they taste good. News flash, feeding your 'feel good' center is not optimum. I'm 74 and have a marathon coming up next month. I had great se x last week. You will be able to read these words, but you won't be able to understand what life can be , until you take a break from eating. Go on.......just one day? One day out of your crazy long life? You can't stop eating for one day? Just one day? Lol .... (that's because you have lies like this article in your head, telling you that 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day', and ' you have to eat if you want your strength', etc etc.) ps. on my 84th birthday I will become a breatharian and realize my next conciseness.....
Living that old on only water seems to have turned you into a senile and bitter old man
I can't believe you through out the "broth"... or as I call it, the "jelly". It's the best part. Just slam it down like a shot of whiskey!
That's disgusting
I'm with you! Throw the Spam to all these other drooling posters... I'll take the Jelly!! Yum!
I enjoy the BBQ sauce ones. (REALLY enjoy them with Ritz crackers and a glass of milk) Only rarely anymore since I happened to actually look one day and see how much fat was in that tiny can. Nowadays, it's potted meat mixed with a lil' mayo and a spoonful of cheese dip...eaten with Ritz crackers. I love ChiliDogs too, natch' :o)
I just love Deviled Ham – Nothing is better than good old Mrs. Baird's white bread, loaded with Miracle Whip and a whole can of Deviled Ham with a couple of slices of American Cheese. You eat it and the deviled ham just comes out the sides. This is so yummy!
It's amazing that Armour has been marketing pig penises as Vienna suasages for so many years without you people catching on!
You've obviously never seen a pig in real life. Pig junk is freakishly huge.
I say that same thing about my husband...
Well, that's another perfectly good mouthful of beer sprayed all over my keyboard. Thanks, nadia.
http://www.trippyfood.com/tag/pig-penis/
CANNED OCTOPUS in OIL!! It’s my ultimate guilty pleasure. Either GOYA or IBERIA brand. I hide those cans at the very back of the pantry so no one can find them but me! Give me a fork and I'm good to go…
I hear yah. I buy a couple of cans when I am on call at a location at the nearby Dollar General store once in awhile. Eat them in the car and throw the cans out before anyone can smell or suspects they were in the vicinity. They are an addiction!
I work construction, I get thirty minuets for lunch, and Viennys ( as they called on the job) make a good quick lunch and I admire Harlan for writting this article.
are you kidding me? I wouldn't even feed that to my dog! garbage is what he's eating.
Lighten up...no on eis forcing you to eat them! To each their own.
No. It's just the parts of the animal that people used to eat every day until just a few decades ago. Now, all you can find is muscle meat, and not even all of that unless you special order it. You can thank our exorbitant lifestyle for that, eating just the best bits and not even looking at the rest. But your parent, and certainly your grandparents ate all kinds of things you're not familiar with. It pays respect to the animal – if you're going to kill it, get as much out of it as you can.
You are so right! Back in the day, NOTHING was wasted. When a pig was slaughtered, the best cuts were sold at the market. The remaining parts like the skin, intestines, feet, the head (pig ears, snoot, brains, etc) and so on were cooked until tender and eaten.
So ... take all the lips, eyes, head, etc...Jellify it... put a bunch of cancer causing presevatives, shove it into a metal can that leaches the metal, line it with BPA and let it sit on a shelf for 4-5 years... buy it, open it, feed it to your stomach and kids.... rich CEO and WalMart makes millions.... you get cancer.. and your kid turns out with ADD, emotional problems, LOW IQ, and repeats this process......
You musst work for Vienna defending this garbage so much. Very sad you are so brainwashed to accept this low-grade poison as food, and then preach that we are wrong for pointing out the FACTS.
@ Todd
So don't eat it.
I have laughed my head off reading this article and the successive commentary. These "potted meats" are not my particular cup of tea, but being and American and somewhat of a historian, I love the whole idea of them. They are recycling at its very finest. It is the food industries way of not wasting a single part of any animal killed for food. Our armies have survived for decades on these preservative laden sources of protein. Eat on all SPAM and Vienna Sausage lovers. You are supporting so many good and necessary causes.
love Vienna Sausage!! suggestion....try it with eggs for brakefast. cut up sausage mix eggs with cut sausage with b/pepper/ salt /sweet peppers green onions and a little garlic. fry in hot oil. eat with toast. BEST THING I EVER ATE
For many years my wife, I and our three children traveld at least two times a year from our home in Hopkins, Minnesota to visit family back in western Nebraska and the Black Hills of South Dakota. The trip was long and tiring because we drove the whole distance without stopping overnight. What we did do, however, was pack a significant amount of 'road food,' stopping every so often at one of the many Interstate rest stops to take a break and have a picnic lunch of sorts.
The stash of snacks invariably included Armor Vienna Sausages, as well as Underwood Potted Ham (the one with the red Devil logo). These two sumptuous commodities coupled with string cheese, Triscuits, Wheat Thins and an assortment of chips, pop and cookies, were ample fuel to get us thru the long drive. The biggest benefit of the menu was that the kids liked everything, especially the sausages.
I live in Ohio now but was born and raised in northern rural Vietnam in the countryside of Sapa near the Chinese border. Each week we cooked up a stringy tough little dog. yes a real dog. I miss dog meat, there isn't anything else that tastes quite like it. I want to eat dog again but everyone here is really uptight about it! Cows, pigs, dogs, horses, what is the difference? Maybe a Vietnamese company can start stuffing real dogs into cans and ship them here for us to eat? I would like this very much. Then the Austrian people can eat their fake dog in a can, and we Vietnamese people can eat real dog in a can. Yes, yes ,yes, I like this idea so much. Please help us to eat real dogs!
I prefer cat. Wait. I'm not saying I eat pusssy.
Too late!
So you would like a can of cold dogs?
Ever try Pit Bull? They like meat too. It could be meat on meat for you, rover lover!
There's a plce for animals in God's world: right next to the mashed potatoes.
No meal would be complete without a little dead meat!!!
thats why you guys are all so fat!
Is that you Beth?
You respect and endorse feeding poor defenceless animals you GMO corn feed, fatten them up, pump full of antibiotics and growth hormones, give these defenceless animals no exercise or light, then slaughter them and sell to greedy fat pigs who don't need meat to begin with...
HUMAN DIET DOES NOT NEED MEAT. WHOEVER SAYS THIS CRAP IS NUTRITIOUS OR HEALTHY IS COMPLTELY BRAINWASHED TO BE A FAT AMERICAN PIG WHO SHOPS AT WALMART AND CANT MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS.
Choose Life. And Stop preaching that others are unhealthy, or insane because they dont want to support killing defenceless creatures for the sake of a diet that we do not even need.
Oooo...PLEEZZE. quit preaching!
I love the little viennas. My grandfather always had some while I was growing up and we ate them as finger food. Now as a poor graduate student I still buy them and have them with some rice. I guess they're more commonly accepted in lower socioeconomic status homes.
In fact, I ate some today and a couple days ago. No shame.
and its still rotting in your lower intenstines....
I hope the BPA feels good.
Hey, what you do on your own time is your business. I don't judge.
1. I haven't laughed this hard in ages. THANK YOU.
2. I'm wheat-sensitive, but occasionally binge on Tombstone Pizzas. Pepperoni. Which I top with canned saurkraut. Rush me to the ER.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...
OMG, Esther Bunny. I enjoy Pizza and love sauerkraut but have never given the two a try. I am now afraid I just might!!
Very weird. This is one of my earliest childhood memories, in fact - pulling these out of a jar as a young toddler. I can remember clearly how thrilled I was.
I love these damn things. They are amazing. I grew up poor and my mom bought tons of cans of them because they were cheap. Pretty sure I'm gonna have to go raid Wal-Mart as soon as possible. I could give a rats ass what they are made(hell that might be in there too!), they taste AWESOME.
I've seen better food come out of a pet store.
Me too. Such as: Iguanas, Guinea Pigs, Fish, Octopus, and pot belly pigs.
How about deviled ham??? That salty sort-of-pork goodness has sustained me on backcountry trips for years. Just spread it on a cracker and let the drooling begin.
I can't take the violence on this thread any more. I need to go have a cry. Think about what I said.
I'm sorry, Did you say something?
I'm gonna go murder a carrot by eating it alive.
Your too funny about the carrot thing!
Good grief...go find a twig to nibble on....
Amount of lettuce recalled last year: tons. Amount of Vienna Sausages recalled: 0
All animals were put on this planet to be eaten. Deal with it and stop crying. Dogs in a can would be my choice.
In Vienna, the Austrians call them "here sausages".
I have laughed so hard I have no mascara left.... Best comments on a story in months!!
I love these things. Great as a quick snack. Two pieces of white bread, little mayo and a can of Vienna Sausages. I have a feeling more people eat these than will admit it.
200 million cans a year can't be wrong.
And don't forget, slice them in half on the seam.
I make mini corn dogs with Vienna sausages: I serve them every year on New Years' Day to my husband and his friends watching football. They eat them as fast as I make them. No one guesses it's Vienna sausages, mwuh ha ha ha ha!
Must be NYG fans...Bunch of Losers.
May I have that corn dog recipe Becky?
Vienna sausage and SODA CRACKERS!
The ultimate snack...
Here is another tasty but unhealthy food...how about Easy Cheese!!!!
What could be better than easy-cheese. I raised my son alone and we ate everything that was in a can that could be eaten cold. When we get together now it calls for crackers, Vienna sausages, easy cheese and a moon pie for desert. My daughter-in-law thinks I should have been charged with child endangerment.
When I take my grandson fishing I take the same snacks and have him sworn to secrecy. She probably suspects something is up.
1) Buy Bugles corn snacks
2) But can of Easy Cheese
3) Fill Bugle with Easy Cheese and pop in mouth like a tiny, delicious, HIllbilly-flavored little processed cheese ice cream cone
;)
Nothing reminds me of childhood like Vienna sausages on a Chicken-in-a-Biscuit cracker does.
My Mommy says I leave a greasy mess in my Batman pants after having these for lunch.
Tell here you cudda hadda Snickers!!!
My secret addiction: Oscar Meyer low-fat wieners. Raw. Or wrapped in white bread with a cheddar slice and mustard. So shoot me.
That does sound really good.
I hope sanjay warned you of the coronary/stroke that is awaiting you if you keep eating that crud.
He eats it once or twice a year. The health effects are precisely zero. Unless you count his lowered stress because he doesn't worry excessively about his diet, which is probably good for him.
I ate Teriyaki beef jerky imported by USA. Overseas cows do taste better. They have rich texture.
Most of asian meat product is usually made in USA.
Most of Asians cuisine and chinese restaurant eat Americanized Cows in USA.
chinese restaurant never had Denmark Cows and Vienna Cows.
Yeah, I ate spam and vienna sausages. Taste good.
Hawaii is the largest consumer of Spam in the nation with almost seven million cans of Spam are eaten every year in Hawaii so it is no suprise when you go into the stores you find Vienna Sausage being sold by the 18-can case lot.
l0l this news site is pure evil. I'm so glad your ratings are plummeting and people are waking up to your BS
cnn has employed moderators already.... cant even debate for 10 minutes on, on the internet, without the police state cracking down to allow the idiots to squabble and support their NWO
*sigh*** you deserve all this
I THINK SOMEBODY NEEDS A HUG!
More like a new life...how can so many people be so negative!!! the fact that you waste the time to reply says alot about you!
More like a kick in the ballz. if you can find any.
If we're not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of MEAT?
MEAT SNACKS RULE!!!
Humans are made of meat too. Eat one then.
You know what, if was ok to eat your own kind, im sure people would, infact cannibalism is happening as we speak.
Eating straight from the can? I think I'm going to vomit.
Yes right out of the can with a cold Coke and slice of bread or a Snickers to clean the grease off my tongue! .
If you vomit, please try to do it laying flat on your back, head tilted as far back as possible, and keep your mouth closed. Plug your nostrils as well. That is the manliest way to vomit EVER.
Wait a minute, if he did that, he'd...
Oh, I get it...
Please nobody actually do this. What this guy is saying will cause someone to die of asiration pneumonia. So don't do it. Please.
Well, there you just killed my plans for tonight...
Of course the other option would be to heat the sausages up then enjoy them with a healthy salad. Hold the salad dressing for longevity, lol...
uumm Fried slices of Spam.....
Pork Rinds, Real Food white popcorn, and anything involving bacon. These foods take me back to Scout Camp during the summers as a kid. mmm mmmm good
These things are awesome.. Here's what we do at my house in 7 easy steps.
1. Wrap the sausange in bacon.
2. Stuff into a Twinkie.
3. Deep fry for 5-8 mins.
4. Roll two to three bacon wrapped, sausage Twinkies in a burrito tortilla.
5. slather the top with cream cheese and cheddar.
6. Bake for 10 mins. 6. Slather it up with sour cream and chives.
7. Sprinkle crystal meth on to taste and viola a perfect the treat the whole family will love.
Apart from the crystal meth it sound pretty good, I think I'll try it.
THANKS
Sounds good, but where do you get the crystal meth? I can't find that ingredient.
My partner and I cook it ourselves in an RV. Can't tell you where.
I try to eat healthy where I can so I'll probably use a whole wheat tortilla.
Well said.
Sounds like an SNL Taco Time commerical
offensive that you get to write an article of THIS LENGTH about crap
I bet you cudda hadda Snickers while reading it! Or maybe a BBQ Cuy!
It's offensive to the rest of us that you read it, don't like it and feel like you HAVE to drop a turd-like post on your way out. In the spirit of the season, go elf yourself.
Well spoken!
So sorry to hear of your deprived childhood.
No need to be jealous that he gets paid for this and you don't.
allow myself to introduce myself... well, clearly there isn't a need for a college degree at CNN, must just have to blow someone?
Actually, I was making a subtle pop culture reference to a line in the first Austin Powers movie..."Allow myself to introduce....myself."
Why you talking smack about me foo'?
Never had vienna sausages, but my guilty pleasure is that spray can cheese!
I love the fact that our ancestors have been eating meat and vegetables for 10s of thousands of years and these born again vegans think that they are the enlightened one because they dont eat meat. Humans are omnivores.
Get over it or leave.
actually NOT true.we are OMNIVORES now, but our diets changed many itmes over time. every culture has different guts with different bacteria. If you went to Asia now, you wouldnt even be able to digest half of their food without getting sick. Same thing with water from around the world, 'travellers diarhea'.
REAL FACT: we DO NOT need MEAT TO SURVIVE. and no, vegans/vegetarians DO NOT need to supplement their diet with vitamins because they dont eat meat. This is DISINFO from those who defend meat over and over again as some awesome source of nutrition. it sits in your gut and rots, contains SOME protein, SOME b12 and a LOT of fat and hormones.... Eating some fat steak that was beefed up with GMO corn feed is NOT healthy.
Wake up!
Are you sure about this? Where are you getting your facts from? I have a degree in Physical Anthropology and no where does it say homo sapiens have not consumed meat. Please look up the evolution of humans and how our teeth are shaped to eat both meat AND plant based food. Human teeth did not go from being herbivore in nature (flat and round for grinding) to a mixture of flat and sharp edges for processing both meat and plants. Please look up evolution and how it applies to how species evolve in terms of diet. For example, felines have sharp teeth for tearing and chewing up meat. Take a look at your teeth. Unless they are round and flat, you are made to eat both plants and meat. Now if you eat meat or not is under your discretion.
I have to disagree – vegans who feed babies a vegan diet supplement with b-12. It may be possible to eat a vegan diet as an adult but not an infant. We are omnivores (doesn't necessarily have to be red meat).
I'm from Texas too. Every time I go to the Dollar Store I have to get a can of Vienna Sausages. Only a few times a year, but I love them. I hate bologna tho.....
I gave my niece 2 cans in her birthday bag. She was more excited about the sausages. Most people I know hate them.
It's nice to see we are not the only ones.
To be honest, I've never tried Vienna Sausages, but I do have some appreciation for socially discriminated foods. For instance, I love liverwurst. I have also eaten and enjoyed pig ears in China Town– I used to brag about my epicurious exploits until someone told me that pig ears are a common doggy treat!
Around the age of 5 I saw my grandmother eating a can of sardines in mustard sauce with crackers. I asked her to try it and immediately fell in love with them. I had her pack them in my lunch the next day before school, which was a very bad idea (Nothing like providing a bunch of little kids some ammo to fire away at you). Anyway, to this day I still eat 2 to 3 can a week. My sons reaction always takes me back to the moment I pulled them out at the lunch table.
NOT FOOD – Clearly you are intoxicated or smoking a stimulant. You have some nerve preaching (IN CAPS) while you are the most unhealthy one here. I'm smelling some serious guilt. Calm down. Get off the "stuff" and have a Vienna sausage.
preaching and guilt? you deserve BPA and fluoride.
Lips and holes, thats what goes into these.....
The best parts!
Sounds like the same folks who are posting here. Just sayin.
I worked at a grocery store out of highschool and we used to see who could come up with the grossest food, these always were in the running.
Hey, we're just trying to use the whole animal-no need to waste those tasty bits!
All this talk about lips and holes and freakishly large junk makes me wish my husband was here.
Please, all of you, promise me that you will never consume this product again, and that you will embrace a strictly vegan lifestyle. If not for you, then for your children. For the environment, for life itself.
They are too stupid to make their own choices, and make their own food.
its soooo terrible how entranched these slobs are to these food products that are PREFORMED MEAT CHUNKS in SOME KIND OF JELLY....
Atleast I go to sleep at night knowing I didn't eat hormone injected meat that was tortured its whole life in some pig pen of shit somewhere....
No. And stop telling me what to do.
+1!!!
Shut Up. Go eat some meat you skinny little freak. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!!!!
So sorry to hear of your deprived childhood. Try working in a spoonfull of meat a week until you can handle a Vienna Sasuage, then get back to us.
I promise that I will now eat even more Vienna sausages! And for every animal you don't eat, I shall eat THREE! One for me, one for you, and one to spite you for trying to shove your vegan agenda on other people...so if it weren't for you, less meat would be consumed! Congratulations! YUMMY! I love to eat animals! I like chasing them and beating them, and then strangling them and cooking them and eating them!
you have lost your speaking privileges.
Oh, I get it. You're trolling. Well, on with it, then.
Google this guinea pig ecuador cuy
I've had it. It tastes like chicken. It's why Guinea pigs exist – they were bred as meat animals.
BBQ Cuy is great. 6 December was the holiday for Quito, Ecuador! I live here and when there is a party the Cuy comes out on platters! The only thing that doesn't taste like chicken is yummy Viennas
I cudda hadda Snickers but I had Cuy!
White bread, mayo and vienna sausage! Yummmmmmy. Gotta go as I think one can left in pantry!
They are good with mayo on saltines too-yum!
i'll probably go pick up a can after reading this article. i also miss gas station chili dogs in the rural south. i have never been able to find chili dogs that tasted better since.
I like Vienna Sausages, but hey give me bad gas. There was one time my farts smelled so bad, my dog got up and left the room.
My wife would simply say "You're Disgusting!', but personally, I think it's funny.
I love the meat jelly that surrounds Spam. Reminds me of family road trips of long ago. I would be the one who didn't want any of the meat... just the jelly on a nice piece of buttered Italian bread. Yumm! Haven't had it for a long time since it's a waste to buy the Spam if you don't want to eat the actual meat stuff. Santa... this year for Christmas... :)
I have to let you all know that I just got back from crying in the ladies room. The fact that people consume meat so readily is just disgusting to me. It is one thing to poison yourselves, but do you really need to harm animals in the process and then to celebrate that fact. And to poison your children as well...?
Think about your children. Think about life!
Keep your nose out of other people's business, radical.
you work for CNN, you can't be that stupid... Radical for POINTING OUT just how BAD these are?
I HOPE YOU DONT HAVE KIDS!!!
I respect your life choice, but you kind of picked the wrong story to read the comments if you are so easily disgusted.
I said that a few times on here already... since i read this... SO DISGUSTING!!!!!!! Go on YOUTUBE, and see what PROCESSED MEAT looks like.... ITS NOT MEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I'm crazy and on medicine because these lazy pigs don't actually know what REAL food is, and decide on opening a can of meat chunks is a good choice for "food".... its sooo gross! and their children have to suffer because their parents are mindless slobs who actually eat this crap
You really do stress way too much over what other people do...
Rejoice! Now vegans can join us in the tasty snack that is Vienna Sausages because they aren't MEAT!!!!!
I wonder what veggie/mineral they are made out of....potatos?
I was born with canines. It was nature's hint that I was a carnivore.
You can ignore yours if you want. Your choice and I won't cry about it. Enjoy yourself! And I'll do the same...
This has nothing to do with teeth or eating meat.
This is NOT meat. because it comes in some preformed dong shape, its automatically meat?
You people are so disconnected from your humanity its terrible. Grow some vegetables and cook them, you've poisoned your body and mind enough.
You cudda hadda Snickers in the bathroom
That's not a Snickers floating in the john, dude...
Quit whining...
Troll harder, idiot.
Hey, know what PETA stands for?
Please Eat Tasty Animals... YUUUUUMMMY :)
Joe,
You sir, are amazing for the PETA comment.
Or, People Eating The Animals........
OK, I'm thinking about life. And how tasty so much of it is. Including the vegetables and bacteria I readily consume while they're still living. Yum!
Just to be sure I don't harm an animal for the sake of just eating it, though, I'll be sure to go kill something out of spite in a minute. Maybe one of the nasty sparrows mobbing my bird feeder. Or a gerbil. Or something terminally cute.
and thats why America deserves the 1000%+ cancer rates, and fat disgusting slobs who continue to vote in tyrannical forms of government while being happy to sit at home and eat canned cancerous meats...but I'm a troll, and stupid and whatever else mudslinging.
I hope none of you are raising children in your image to be as stupid, slavish and ignorant as you people are. Its very very sad.
Yep! So leave us to die and go wack it in the corner with your silken tofu you tree hugging judgemental wannabe hipster.
I just kicked a rabbit in the face just for you
Good. At least this idiot is back in the bathroom and not commenting on this story.
It's called evolution. We are meat-eaters...look at your teeth.
LOL, another great example of someone just learning enough to sustain their own limited mindset. A meat eating animal has a very short intestinal track as the majority of complex protein digestion is done in the stomach with strong acids and enzymes. Therefore no drawn out colon is needed. A plant eating animal on the other hand has a very long digestive tract, such as humans having approx 40 feet! We were originally plant eaters only, but as we came out of the forest and began hunting, adaptions arose...enzymes, incisors for ripping and tearing etc. It will be interesting to watch our collective colons shrink over the coming millennia ! (oh wait, this can't be right, lets try a different belief.....the pink bunny behind the clouds made man from mud and ribs (!) and graced him with all these myriad creatures to stuff his face with and destroy the planet so man could be HAPPY and FEEL GOOD and then have lots of time for worshipfullnessing :)
I respect your choice to not eat meat. Now please respect my choice to eat meat.
Mine, too!
Pure veganism is more detrimental to a person's health than eating meat. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about to say that meat is poison. Also, the "poor animals" out in nature don't seem too concerned for each other's well being. I personally have never heard of a vegan grizzly bear.
Vegan grizzly bear? Reminds me of the episode of Futurama involving "popplers" where a group of hippies/vegetarians/vegans (whatever, they're all the same delusional group) taught a lion to eat tofu. The camera pans to the right, and the animal is thin to the bone, and lets out an exhausted cough. Hilarious!
The vegan lifestyle is just as unhealthy, unless your taking some serious (processed fake and chemical) vitamin supplements your just as unhealthy as people who eat at mcdonalds, red meat is very high invitamin b12 which is a water-soluble vitamin with a key role in the normal functioning of the brain and nervous system, and for the formation of blood.
Lack of protein is what causes irrational emotional outbursts about silly topics like Vienna sausages..
part of "LIFE" is death so deal with it
^^This. A million times this!
oh wah wah – get over it crybaby
I love animals to, they are delicious!
TROLLOLOLOLOLOL
Find yourself a good therapist.
Life is a choice, and so is what you consume. Stop telling people what not to eat and worry about yourself. Go tell a lion to stop eating zebras.
Humans have always eaten meat, then tried vegies. Some became vegans, some had meat and vegies. For the sake of the general publics' knowledge: I met a man whose stomach actually exploded while he was roofing in Toronto ON in 129 degree C heat. He did survive thanks for the skilled doctors and surgeons who rushed him into the OR just 20 minutes after he was transported by helicopter to the top of said hospital. Safe to say this man I met told me he only ate meat, potatoes and sandwiches, all his life. So to the vegans out there, thankyou so much for your reminder of how we do need vegies and fruits....take care!
They are also a decent bait for catfishing that you can snack on while you fish, unlike most other things you'd use like raw chicken livers, moldy cheese, or worms.
Another yummy meal is smoked pork hocks in saurkraut.
I guess I'm alone in this but I pour out the jelly and replace with white vinegar. Let them marinate for a minute or two in the can and enjoy. I still have to hide 'em from my wife though. She thinks they're "gross".
what Jelly?
these come with jelly in a can sitting on a shelf for 5-10 years? omg... and you eat it knowing it comes in jelly.... pukeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
It's gelatin. Your body is loaded with it; it occurs naturally in all meats. In year case, it seems to be concentrated in your cranial region, but there's nothing unnatural about it.
you're lying. preservative BPA-derived Jelly in a can of preformed "meat" dogs is not worrisome or unnatural?
You are spreading DISINFO. and trying to justify unhealthy eating habits. I hope you have a look at yourself and realize your totally brainwashed. Naturally occurring "jelly" in a can of "weiners".... get real and get a clue.
that jelly is called glycogen, which is basic high school science...
My first encounter with vienna sausages was on a 2 day backcountry backpacking trip. I was given a bag full of granola bars, a protein shake or two, and two cans of vienna sausages. I loved them on that trip because they were the only "meat" i could eat, but I haven't eaten them since.
Wrapped in a pop tube biscuit w/a piece of cheese & baked, heavenly.
I grew up in Mississippi and we always pronounced it "Vyaina" Sausages
Here in Oklahoma, we call them "Vy-eenie weenies". And I like'em! Although, I do have an ex-boyfriend who earned that nickname because he possessed uh... certain characteristics of the Vienna sausage.
I grew up in TN and AR and we had the same pronunciation. It was until I was older that I knew the correct name. Glad to know it wasn't just me.
Vienna Sausage, Beanie Weinie and potted meat with soda crackers. The staples of the southern hunting trip when I was a yonker. Anyone trys to put you down for those is a food snob and should be exiled to France, where by the way, the eat SNAILS!
Loved Vienna Sausages as a kid, my Texas Gramma would always have them around. Also, Deviled Ham-I absolutely loved sandwiches made with that stuff! My big brother was the spam lover, he loved fried spam sammiches.
Great, now im hungry!
Viennas, sardines, pigs feet, souse, Spam, pickled eggs, herring in cream sauce, and smoked oysters, I love them all!
Oh, man – pickled herring in cream sauce! I used to love that stuff as a kid. Haven't had it in years, but I'm gonna track me down some of that this weekend!
@SixDegrees, I'm definitely with you on the pickled herring in cream sauce. Found it in the deli case at a local supermarket a while back. My wife and I polished the whole jar (large one) off in about 2 hours. Great with just saltines and beer. Yummmm!!!!
+1
Yum! Yay for smoked oysters, that is one of the appetizers my family always serves-just one on a saltine cracker and you're good to go.
And cool name by the way ;-)
Got to try smoked herring kippers, so good. You can also mix it with your tuna for extra zing. Ever try tuna mixed with sardines? All so good!
Heidi ho Heidi ho.
THIS IS NOT PROTEIN OR FOOD! THIS IS BPA-FILLED HORROR THAT IS NOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH MEAT!
GET A CLUE!!!!!!! STOP SUPPORTING THEIR HORRIBLE DIET CHOICES AND STOP FEEDING YOUR KIDS THIS CRAP, WHY SHOULD THEIR BODIES SUFFER BECAUASE YOURE TOO STUPID AND LAZY TO COOK REAL FOOD...
How can you morons eat this crap and then pretend its some home staple so you poison your children with it..... unbelievable!
You cudda hadda Snickers!
Is that what happened to your brain?
Because typing in all caps makes you sound sooo intelligent. Get down off your high horse and back on your meds, loser.
He's in the top 3% of America's rich who cudda hadda Snickers!
ewww, you can't even agree there's BPA in there...do you even know what BPA is? I'm on medicine??? WOW! Call someone crazy... and then point out CAPS!
I hope you don't have children being unaware of preservatives in any canned product, especially PROCESSED FORMED CHUNKS OF "MEAT". I hope your husband doesn't eat your homecooked "meat".
Blah blah blah. or shoudl I say BLAH BLAH BLAH
Beth, the CAPS thing aside, this person is completely right. You can blah, blah all you want. Just makes you seem even more ignorant, but being from Texas, I guess you can't help that.
Well, rkdres, obviously you're superior, considering your ability to judge someone based on a state of origin. Liberal? Just a guess.
Vienna should sue whomever manufactures these. European sausages have strict rules and are all meat unlike many main US brands.
I'm not sure what kind of sausages you're referring to, but nearly all sausages contain non-meat ingredients and fillers of one kind or another. And by definition, ANY sausage is not only processed, but heavily processed.
what happened to preparing a meal in a kitchen.... so lazy, u have to open a can of "meat"... my god America deserves their obesity and terrible low IQ from fluoride, chlorine and fracking chemicals...
America doesn't deserve your crummy spelling and whiny attitude
It's called "omnivory". I cook almost everything I eat from scratch, but I also like occasional processed food because I like the way it tastes. Same with the author of this article – he eats these once or twice a year. Lighten up.
My grandmother fed them to her family, my mother fed them to us. We ate it no questions asked because money wasn't abundent in our household. My mother always cooked full meals hitting on all the food groups but packing lunches everyday meant being creative. Which is what I now do for my kids. My children love them too as they love liverwurst. Which I am sure will set you off on a whole new episode. We laugh at people's disgust. My son was eating a liverwurst sandwich and someone was making fun of him for it. He told them we ran out of cold cuts so he opened a can of cat food.
As far as I am concerned for anyone else that it bothers simply look away because I am not telling you what you should eat so don't preach to me.
@NOT FOOD: does it really matter to you what WE put into our bodies? Why do you feel the need to tell others what to do? How does what I or anyone else on here eat affect you??
I happen to take my health and what I eat fairly seriously. I workout 5 times a week (I am not obese, FYI, not even close to it, I have arms and shoulders you would die for) and mostly eat food I have prepared from scratch, planning my meals for the next day in advance. I rarely eat processed food and if it is processed it has very few ingredients on the list. This is not to say I do not indulge every once in awhile. To live like that would not be living at all. Everything in moderation....moderation.
What do you eat? Please enlighten us. You only bash but don't give us insight to your amazingly healthy diet.
so are you not american?
Stress much???
Too much health food. He's constantly on edge from worrying about what goes in his mouth.
Constantly on edge cause he/she is ALWAYS HUNGRY!!!!
...like everyone is going to believe you've never indulged in some kind of snack food.
It must get very lonely living under a bridge...
Oh shut up already! No one's forcing YOU to eat them.
Precisely the point of the article.
wow...typing in caps helps to display your ignorance... theres far worse things a parent can do that give there children unhealthy snacks. Having a closed mind and judging everyone else... your kids are more likely to be rude closed minded people than they are to get sick from eating a canned food snack.
morons like NOTFOOD need to die
are you still here?? why??? if all this bothered me as much as it obviously bothers you i would have been off the site by now.....just sayin...
This alludes to why most humans are fat/lazy/not too bright. None of the substances mentioned above as travel food (or for that matter 'junk food') are actually food. If it is in a can, it should be labled maybe bomb shelter food and only eaten as a last resort! Humans as capitalists sell 'junk food' with the word food in the title to make you not realize it. Truly, humans need to work back towards eating fruit,vegetable, nuts,seeds, legumes (and flesh) and forget all else. It takes years when you have been born into this whacky culture, but is doable.
yes, that's it! People no longer understand what food is. And to make it confusing you can take an American child, raise him/her on just junk food Mc'd's crap, canned junk with no goodness, etc and the child will still live. The child will 'seem' fine but the reality is longer term. Humans have great difficulty in seeing 'big pictures', their future, any time beyond their own little mortality. It is strange and somewhat incorrect to say but in actuality, the high prevalence of cancers and degenerative diseases all stem from abuse of intake just like these cute little sausages (oh c'mon, lighten up, just 1 can won't kill you! will it? will it? will it? echoes into the void. God gave us animals to eat right? sheesh.......)
not only did he give us animals to eat but the meterials to make artificial food. our average life span has increased since the time when obesity was less of an issue... id rather eat what tastes good and live life than live to be 100... human life as we know it will survive canned meat.
People have been canning for decades. It's the only way someone that lives in a colder climate can get through the winter. Don't lump all canned foods into a non-food category. If I can beans from the garden so I have some during the winter when nothing grows, there's nothing wrong with that.
@A..(comment at 5:10)
.I think what they mean is commercially canned food. I grew up on fresh vegetables from my mom's garden and she always canned the extra so we would have it all winter. It is totally healthy. But the commerically canned food is full of additives and preservitives and WAY too much salt.
How many people here stated they indulge in Vienna sausages the odd time, then its 1 to 4 times per year... This makes me laugh. It is as if you are saying, because humans ate VS, then they have no knowledge nor ingestion of any other types of food. Here on Earth, we do have many choices of snacks and meals of which to ingest. Wow, lol...people know about food choices since they drank formula and watched their parents eat all these different shapes and colors of food morsels, then grew from there, both in food preferences and IQ. Maybe some of these people love an occaisional V8 with their VS while driving down the road in their V8 vehical...again LOL
My sneaky guilty pleasure is pretty simple. During the days of my being a cross-country tour bus driver I would drop off my group at an attraction (such as Disneyland) and first off find a local supermarket. I'd buy 4 things there, a chub of Hebrew National salami, a small brick of Monterey Jack Cheese, a small box of Triscuits (original flavor) and a quart of milk. I'd kick back in the front seat of my bus and watch a movie or two that I'd rent at a local Blockbuster (easy to find then).
Ahhh, the good old days. Now that I'm retired after almost 30 years of doing this occasionally, I do miss it so. My wife is watching me like a hawk nowadays diet-wise, and I'll be DANGED if she doesn't bust me every time I try this nostalgic treat. All she has to do is smell a whiff of my breath, and all hell breaks loose! LOL!
A friend of mine is the only one in her family that likes cow tongue. That grossed me out because after boiling it, she peels then devours it herself. Admittedly so, I grew up liking chicken hearts in homemade chicken soup and dumplings. If you are ever low on iron, this makes you feel great and strong. I love turkey hearts. During Christmas if the turkey was only packed with one heart, I would have to boil it up, cut it perfectly in half, then share that heart with my son who now is 21. Cow heart beats any meat because it is so lean and tasty...stir fry it...better than most cuts of any beef, seriously.
I like Viennas with Ritz crackers and beer.
He cudda hadda Snickers!
You should have told Mr Prima Donna Nic Robertson to kiss your bu tt! If you like I will do it for you. I love Vienna sausages, and any one doesn't love them or their smell is probably UNAmerican!
Nic Robertson is UNAmerican! Booooo Nic Robertson.
Nic Robertson, you are not a nice person.
I'm a sardines & saltines girl, but my son loves vienna sausages, sans juice, straight from the can, no cracker chaser. During Hurricaine Irene, most stores were sold out of tuna fish, but there were plenty of vienna sausages and sardines left on the shelves. Although we didn't lose power, we still had a canned food feast that day.
Sardines, Saltines and some Crystal hotsause! Delicious
I like vienna sausages with saltines and French's mustard.
My father was a pilot in the Air Force and we were stationed in Europe for most of the 50s and 60s. He would make us pizza on Sunday nights from a box of Chef Boyardee pizza mix and add sliced Vienna Sausages on top. We thought he was the best chef in the world!!!!!
why eat something so unhealthy???
It isn't unhealthy once or twice per year. It's probably a lot better for you than a lot of what's peddled as "health" food, too.
IT IS NOT HEALTHY! WHY USE THAT LINE OF ARGUMENTATION... "ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR"...
THIS GUY EATS THEM EVERY DAY, ... YOU JUST PROVED THEY ARE HEALTHY... THEN SOMEHOW COMPARE IT TO IMPROPER LABELLING????? STUPIDDDITY
Carol, Seriously!!!
Because we don't have a stick up our bu tt s. Lighten up! Have some fun!
Considering the article, why ask such a silly question? And, why care what others do?
Go Armour Star! I also love me some Vienna Sausages!
Great. Another food Nazi.
Why ask a gay question?
NOT FOOD,
If you read the article the author ate this canned food when he was on location covering hurricaines. He did not have the opportunity to go into his local Whole Foods and pick up free-range organic chicken, organic black beans, and organic vegetables. Give this guy a break, he lived off a gatorade while he risked his life to offer up the news.
I think everyone needs to get over themselves lol. If you have ever eaten at a fast food restaurant you have probably eaten the same things they put into vienna sausages! I personally grew up on these and love them. My Mom used to give us vienna sausages, slices of cheese, and smoked oysters for lunch on rainy days. My occasionally guilty pleasure is taking Hormel Tamales and sprinkling shredded cheese on top and eating them room temperature. I'm with you Jeremy!
Hate Vienna sausages. But love potted meat. When I was a kid, also on the Texas coast, my grandfather would give me a can of sardines when I came to visit instead of candy. I was always thrilled to get a can of the stinkers. :)
why eat like that when you can have chicken breast or beans for protein. With vegetables, a complete meal.
Because once or twice a year, he likes the taste of Vienna sausages. Lighten up.
maybe he has a thing for the balogna
Big surprise you don't put sausage in your mouth.
girls I know do..
Hope you never date Carol. You will go unblown.
I love "vennie weenies" as I have always called them. I don't eat them much any more (because I am old and have to watch my calories), but they are great cold and on a regular saline cracker. I must admit that I have to wash off all the "gel" first, though.
*saltine
LOL... You should have offered nicky boy a can of the Vienna's when he got upset about the juice in the WC. He was only yelling at you to cover his own secret love affair with the Potted ambrosia!
One thing not mentioned in this article.... These things rate somewhere up near fine cuisine for military guys in the field (and gals – though I've never met a female who would go near a Vienna Sausage – OK, please enter your Sausage jokes ). Tasty,calorie packed,shelf stable and highly portable – Make sure to include a few cans in any care package you send to our troops overseas.
This is a staple in my kitchen cabinet. I grew up eating these things and so have my children. They are the perfect first finger food. My 5 year makes sure we don't run out of her 'vi nee nee's" EVER. They are great on a sandwich too by the way. I still eat them that way.
Forty years ago, when I was about 6, my grandfather and I would eat pickled pigs' feet while watching professional wrestling on TV. I don't know what we were thinking, on either count . . .
my vienna stinks after a dose of vienna
You shouldn’t play with your Vienna while you’re eating your Vienna.
I love sardines in a flat can that you use a key to open. Put them on crackers or bread along with a slice of onion. Yummmm. Definitely a stinky guy snack. If you eat it, don't plan on having sex for a week or two.
Cornbread in Milk!! ummm mmmmm!
BBQ Vienna sausages are the best!! Add bread and mayonnaise!!
It's heavenly taste..I love viennna sausage and I am addicted to it.
I buy these things by the case and keep some at home and some stashed in my desk drawer at work. It's good to see others writing about their addiction to them. Although I have never PHYSICALLY met anyone that will admit to liking these things, I have long suspected that there was a secret underground of silent masses trying to quietly pop the top on those little cans whilst remaining anonymous...
200 million cans a year. That's a lotta sausage – a can for two out of every three people in the country.
I concur, vienna's are great, the only thing better is Armour's Pork Brains in Milk Gravy canned. Oddly enough, I was introduced to them while living in Florida and cannot find them in the St Louis area where of all things brain sandwiches are a fairly popular novelty in many small local diners.
Like all foods, it's not going to kill you unless you insist on eating 5,000 calories worth every other day.
That's funny and weird. I'm eating my can of Veinna Sausage and I came across this article during my lunch hour. I have to say the best way to chow down the Veinna is to pour some ketchup and couple of drops of Tabasco Sauce over the sausage. Sweet and spicy...mmmmmmm
Love 'em with Wheat & cheese crackers a couple times a year. My wife HATES 'em.
BY the way guy's don't foget to get a straw at the store... specially ,if you are on the road, It's very hard to pick them out of the can.
Start with the middle wienie. You just moosh your fingers down between the inside of the outer wienies and the outer edge of the middle one and pick it up. Easy peasy.
I really enjoy them. I usually now only eat them while deployed and sometimes on vacation. Best with FUNYUNS chips. if you hadnt had them that way you need to try it. Also go to Kentucky and get a can of SKI citrus soda and drink that while eating them. You will never forget it.
*news*
Fake cheese in a can. On my daily commute home (1.5 hrs) I would hold the tip in my mouth and enjoy the cheese. I was shamed by my friends & no longer have fake cheese :(
Sheetz!!! I love Sheetz wish they had them South...Made to Order Sandwiches has to be better than those Vienna Sausages. Yeee Yucckk pew. I used to like them when I was 10 then I came to my senses quickly. Hey whatever floats your boat man! Not for me.
I grew up in Hawaii, Vienna Sausage, canned corn beef and of course spam....Till this day, my kitchen is stocked.
Those of you looking for hard nose probably should be reading the Eatocracy section.
The CNN B-– who chided him for pouring the liquid down the drain was a mincing nancy-boy. All you have to do is run the hot water for a bit.
Same as so many...an occasional indulgence and a component of my emergency food stash. My grandmother used to give them to me as a treat when I was a kid. They taste a little too salty to me now, but I still enjoy them!
I agree..kinda..Penrose sausages, my friend, are God's gift to mankind.
My husband says they're made from @$$holes and lips, but I love them!!
WOW!... And I thought I was the only one, thast just like me. LOL!!!!!!
Cheese in the can!!! I spray it directly in my mouth like medicine.lol. I go through a can every other day! Its hard to not spray in my mouth at the store before i even get to check out.
I used to eat them as a kid, too. Maybe with beans, or something, but mostly I liked them plain. I probably couldn't eat a whole can, but one or two sounds kinda good...........
I've also never had Spam. I'd like to try it.....
No, you really don't want to do that. You may as well just pour a salt shaker on your tongue, it has about the same effect.
Don't mind Uncle O. He's on a lo-salt diet and gets kinds crabby 'round this time of day.
G'head and give Spam a try. Then come back and tell us how nasty Specially Processed A$$orted Meat packed in gel really is. ;)
Fried diced spam in a 3 egg omelet. Also Spamgetti.
Hawiaan-style Spam: Take two cans of regular or smoked Spam and cut into 1/2 " slices. Open a 15 oz can of pineapple slices, drain off and save the juice and arrange span slices and pineapple slices in a bread pan (or alternately, arrange overlapping Spam and pineapple in a 8X8" casserole dish.) measure 2 tlbs of pineapple juice from can. Add to 1 c. ketchup and 1 tlbp brown suga r and pour over spam and pineapple. Bake in 350 oven until heated through. Serve and enjoy! YUM! (Heading out to the store for Vienna's and Spam now...)
Yes, a great guilty pleasure...right there with fried Spam as other posters have mentioned. We also used to take a can of Vienna sausage scuba diving with us. Open them up under the water and break them apart....it would attract schools of the little fish around. Of course you had to keep your eyes open for the big fish who came in search of their lunch as well....still it was fun.
Brings back great memories of my father when I was growing up. He would take me fishing and our
lunch was nearly always "viennies", spam, a sleeve of saltines and a chunk of cheddar cheese.
I did the same with my son and now my grandson!!
Blue box (Kraft) deluxe mac and cheese!
I like the dried minnows that you can fing in Asian food markets. I stir-fry them and eat them plain with rice. They're awesome ! I think a lot of folks would freak though :-)
I became a fan of vienna sausages in 1969 when I was doing the rock festival circuit that summer. Vienna sausages and white bread can keep you going when you simply can't afford anything else. They are really tasty too. I also eat
piclked eggs. I showed my wife a bottle of them in a supermarket yesterday hoping she'd get the hint. I'm still waiting on those.
Not made with chicken unless you buy chicken
Seriously CNN? My IQ dropped 50 points from reading this stupidity.
Well, now that your down to 50, what now?
So you're down to zero now. Troll.
Good luck with those 45 points you've got left.
That's not possible. Yuo can't have a negative IQ!
really Blake? You did read the title before you read the article, right? Lighten up.
Leave it to the Blakes to try and ruin a fun article. Oh well, makes me smile knowing he is miserable.
... and stupid, too.
And now we are all feeling superior for having read your comment.
Superior? I don't know about that. I DO feel better about my slap-a-troll skills though.
I keep a case of the sausages in my emergency food supply as a source of protien and variety. They will keep indefinately as long as the seal remains intact and the can does not bulge.
That's funny... I love vienna sausages the same way he does! I also put them in mac & cheese. I thought I was the only one who did that...
I love that shīt like this passes for news nowadays, good times.
If you want news, check out the news sections of CNN. This is info/fun. Did you really think you would find hard hitting news in "Eatocracy"?
It's like this, seriously, they put in little bits of filler, like they do with canned meat, to add some flavor to the otherwise depressing parts you would call "news." Without this "filler or fluff" people, who stand up right, have healthy colored skin and like fresh air, unlike you, lose interest. If they didn't do this they would lose money and go out of business and hence would cease being a location for snide comments such as yours.
Check out "this guy" link. Great vienna sausage eater!
My dog eats cat poop.. Fresh out of the litter pan. Which is perfect because I don't have to buy dog food and rarely have to scoop the kitty litter pan.
My dog used to come running when she heard one of the cats throwing up. It was the only time she got a warm meal.
lmao!!! disgusting but hilarious!!!
UGH!!! ; GROSS
Although I make my own pickled & mustard eggs, there's nothing like those bright pink eggs found only in out of the convenience stores.
They sound related to Koolicles – pickles with red Kool-Aid added to the brine.
I have a bunch of food in storage for emergencies. This is one of them. May be good to have when this country finishes it's melt down too.
Me too. They have about a 3 year expire.
You are NOT a vienna sausage junkie unless you drink the juice! Yes, all of it every time you eat them. I DO love vienna sausages.
I got addicted to these things on account of that movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow": There's a scene where our heroes land in Tibet, and the going rate for assistance is a case of Vienna Sausages. I realized I'd never had 'em, and they were 2 for a buck at the 99¢ Only store, soooo...
I knew I had a problem when I got an 18-can case at Costco, and I polished it in about two days! Now I must shun them.
But if you want a satisfying bowl: Rice, beans, Ramen & Vienna Sausage (with juice!)... Mmmmm, boy!
Nice article, but Nic Robertson sounds like a complete diva dbag.
I hesitate eating these sausages because of I don't know how healthy they are for you. Especially as one gets older. I have more healthier choices on my blog posts. Read and let me know what you think at http://mikecoleblog.com/
As one gets older, the risk of eating unhealthy foods and doing unhealthy things falls dramatically, since your chances of living long enough to suffer the consequences also falls as you age.
Hey Mike! Get a reality check going here... If somebody is eating Vienna Sausages, do you really think they can afford real "healthy" meat? Or... do they have the time to eat those super expensive "healthy" and "quick" meals? Probably NOT!
Heh, heh,.... actually, as one grows older, all food becomes less and less digestible. So aside from salt concerns, something like Vienna Sausages are probably worse for a developing body than a more stagnant one. I mean that in regards to growth and development. It's how you treated your body when you were young that determines its condition in your old age. I plan to start smoking cigars when I hit 75, and be an old cuss with a stoogie in my puss. (Probably not really).
I hope you pronounce it correctly. Those are vy-eener sausages doncherknow.
Alternatively, Vi-eenies.
I pronounced them "finguhs" (fingers) when I was a kid. Broccoli was "trees".
I LOVE BEANY-WEENIES!!!!!
Yummmmm! Me and uncle Buck used to have them all the time.
I love smoked canned oysters.
Me too! ;-)
I also grew up in Texas and my daddy loved canned meats, I grew up on that stuff! Vienna sausage, potted meat, spam and hog head cheese (Yuk!!). That one he could keep to himself. Every now and then I get a craving for canned meats. I recently bought two cans of Vienna sausage and had a great time eating them with saltine crackers. Yum just like old times!!!
Wow, I ate hog head cheese when I was about 7yrs old. I didn't know they still made it! Im from the South so there you go.
Yuck, but still fond memories as they remind me of my father, who would eat Vienna sausage, hogs head cheese. Spam or Liverwurst on crackers on fishing trips. The smell was just horrible (and I don't mean the fish). Love you dad!
Mmmm...spam. Pan fried. The Christmas cold-cut tray just got a little bit heavier...
if you are what you eat....then Mr Vienna Sausage is just that!
What a gastronomical maniac!
My guilty pleasure is getting a big chunk of Danish Blue cheese and just eating it with nothing else and not stopping until its gone. I would do it every day but a cheese only diet is probably not healthy.
I hear you, but I'm a Stilton man myself.
Jarlsberg Swiss for me!
For the ultimate in a blue cheese binge, try it accented with an occasional Kalamata olive, washed down with sips of descent Cabernet.
Fava beans and chianti.
Blue cheese is also delicious with stawberry jam on a nice plain cracker.
I'm pretty fond of Vienna Sausage myself, but I'm an old fashioned southern boy, Pig Brains in my eggs, Pigs feet at a football game, Cow tongue boiling on the stove. Not that I eat it all on a regular basis, but from time to time I do indulge. For those of you that are these 'health nuts' lighten up, enjoy life a little, if you are devoting all of your time to working out and dieting on rabbit food, you are going to miss out on some of life's little pleasures, such as those delicious little sausage fingers our friend decided to write an article about.
I'm a big-time closet eater, too. I don't mind the little sausages or even Spam every five or six years. It's the pimento cheese spreads that I crave and go to great lengths to hide in the fridge, lest anyone should find out that I consume a product generally considered foul. I'll also eat sauerkraut straight out of the can! And the canned tamales. Yummy. I hide those things, too. It's totally fat-laden, processed crap, but good lord it's delicious to indulge once or twice a year! One thing I can't fathom: the McRib. I'm amazed every time McDonald's brings it back.
Summer sausage is my once-in-a-great-while indulgence. I know it's terrible for me, but once in a while, there's nothing quite as comforting as a plate of sliced summer sausage, Ritz crackers, slices of assorted cheese, and apple slices.
I love little sausages
Sick freak
Hey, leave that guy alone. He won us a bunch of football games back in the day and that's what's important here. Football. Go win one for the gipper Jerry!
well done, sir
tell me about it
OMG it's like that southpark where the child protective guy just will NOT STOP with the Penn State jokes. lol
Sup!
*bro fist*
Don't worry guys, I got this
*crosses the streams*
why should i get loaded with nitrites ? fresh chicken is way better than this junk. processed meat must be banned from the food chain.
Then you'd have bazillions of little viennas running around, taking over the world. Must keep the population in check.
hmmm...good one. we really have a problem on hand on how to manage tons of little viennas. lets feed them to the chickens. the cycle will be completed.
You're not going to get loaded with anything you only eat a couple times a year. Lighten up.
And BTW – ALL food is processed. You probably mean something else, but sloppy writing == sloppy thinking.
ok. minimally processed. simple living == great thinking.
vienna eating == no thinking
Actually uncooked nitrates aren't harmful. It's what heating them, high temperature frying that makes them bad.
may be nitrates. but not nitrites.
I bet your cardiologist and gastroenterologist and endocrinologist love you too, but the reality is, nobody cares. Zzzzz...
I love them with crackers. I also cook them in Spanish style rice :-)
Real man cave survival food. The little 5 oz cans state "2.5 servings per can" ... I don't think so.
Ladies, here are 3 great stocking stuffers for him; Vienna Sausages, Marinated artichokes, Smoked oysters.
You mean Nimrod-cave food.
yeah, you tell 'em! They like something I don't like, that means they're stupid!
you musent for get the cornedbeef hash food group
My daddy called them venereal sausages. He also called them jew-peters.
Ate them on his way to the Klan rally?
No, Im sure he ate them on his way to your moms house to give her a little sausage!
TMI
oh, so he was a boor AND and anti-semite.
The occasional use of non-PC slang terminology from the 1940's doesn't necessarily brand someone as boorish or antisemitic, just as the occasional ingestion of processed food doesn't define one's diet.
I love those packages "fried pies" sold in convenience stores, apple or peach. I also like those little white dry powdery donuts with a carton of buttermilk. There, I've admitted my weakness!
this article brought back fond memories of my youth...every time my dad, brother and i went fishing on the lake (ALL day affair in the boat!) my dad brought cans of vienna sausages, a box of saltines and a huge thermos of iced tea...
i don't really like the taste of them, but the funky smell and texture instantly takes me back to long days baking in the sun fishing with my dad and lil brother...they are still 2 of my closest friends in this world and i'm blessed to have those memories...
vienna sausages and all :)
And.. They cut the smell of fish on your hands!
I hate to admit this, but I remember in the early 80's when my band used to give these out as prizes at gigs for the best dancers. As I remember it, it was good for competition......
Have we verified that Vienna Sausage is actually made from organic, once-living materials, or is that just a rumor?
Organic?, Probably, Once Living? Don't be so picky!
I love grilled spam sandwichs!!!!
Alex – C'mon – call it by its real name: spam SAMMICHES! : )
My Father used to eat Vienna Sausages with LOTS of tabasco sauce – he didn't want to share with us kids – smart man my Father was.
They sound aweful
Smarties, I just cannot eat one roll!
Spree are better. Get a little tangy with that sweet :)
Cold hot dogs right out of the package and dipped in mustard are even better.
Cold hot dogs........love it
Vienna Sausages remind me of when my father would take me fishing when I was a kid..good memories.
Try grilling them over an open fire or making nori rolls with them.....good eats!
LOL. Let's see. Once in awhile if I have popcorn at home I will dip it in mayo. My kids made fun of me before they tried it and are now hooked. Again, only once in awhile.
I love those! They are even better cooked in a biscuit. Vienna's in a blanket are the best!
I like em too for a snack...
Love the little meaty fingers too. As Popcorn Papa pointed out, not too high on the nutritional scale, but what the hay, sometimes you just have to indulge your needs.
several years ago in morgan co., tn, two brothers were sitting on the porch eating vienna sausage, canned peaches, and chocolate milk. A deputy and a ride along drove up to arrest them but the brothers shot and killed both and got away with it (true story). so the morale to this story is be sure to eat vienna sausage before you commit a crime or move to tn.
It was actually Roane county, TN.
Potted meat, oh how my husband loves it! His fav is a Potted Meat sandwich on white bread. Armour is his favorite brand!
I was in labor once and since he knew he would be at the hospital for hours and didn't want to leave my side to get a bite to eat, he brought his canned potted meat and crackers.
Mr. Robertson will be in for a rude awakening in the morning on Canal Street when the shop owners do their daily ritual of hosing out the urine from their store front doors that was left there during the night. He will gladly smell the sausage.
Your courage to stand up and be seen will help me do the same! I too am a Vienna sausage lover. My husband just shakes his head and says I'm a very cute hick.
My grandma would pack Vienna sausages and saltines as a snack for me and my grandpa when we'd go fishing. I'd use the top of the can to cut the sausage in half so it fit perfectly on the saltine. I require my potted meat products to be symmetrical.
LOL man Jana your last sentence is hilarious!
My sister gave my dog some. She discovered a new practical joke. Give some to someone elses dog. Send em home. Couple hours later the dog will have gas that will peel the paint off the walls. I now have a can in my cupboard just for my sisters dog the next time they come over.
Thanks for the tip. I am headed to the store this afternoon for a few cans. I have a neighbor's dog
in mind, already. Keeps coming over and messing in my yard. Will just share a little "of the wealth"
with them!
Slow news day?
I was going to say what a stupid article but it seems to have struck a cord with closet vienna sausage lovers. Now go out stand up and be proud you like little sausages :)
Sure, love me them cow butt cheek, lips, and other garbage filled, misc. meat.
I use them to give my dogs pills when they need them. I love them too but try not to eat them too often either.
I worked with a fellow who wouldn't eat anything someone cooked at home and brought to the office. When he hosted pool parties, guests couldn't contribute food except packaged items like chips. Nothing cooked in a home other than his own. Ironically, his favorite brown-bag lunch: saltine crackers and a can of potted meat. POTTED MEAT – I don't even want to think of what is in that concoction. But, I do admit to a fondness for Vienna sausages on saltines. Hmm, gotta head back to the grocery store.
I love vienna sausages too!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love 'em too. Only buy around 4 cans at a time and that lasts me about 1-2 weeks to have as a treat. They are great kept in the can, juice discarded and then covered in Texas Pete/hot sauce. Gotta have saltines and sliced sharp cheese on the side. Yum.
OMG...I thought I was the only one too! I am a pretty healthly eater so people are shocked when I reveal my occaisonal indulgence in Vienna Sausage. But my grandma used to feed them to me when I was little. My grandma's house was so warm and loving. She has been gone for a long time...but those little sausages gives me fond memories of grandma. Love it!
What kind of man eats Armour Vienna Sausages?
A man who like to eat wee wienies. duh.
"washed down with Tang. It was Houston, what else would I be drinking?"
Anything?
My guilty but sort-of gross pleasure is smoked oysters. A buddy of mine introduced them to me on a hunting trip. He said his uncles would bring them along on their trips. I eat them about twice a year now. I just open the can, pick them out using a fork and place them on a chip or cracker. They are best with Buffalo Chicken potato chips or Chicken-in-a-biscuit crackers. They are always packed in linseed oil. My wife makes me brush my teeth after eating a whole can. I even ask for them as a Christmas present! MMMMmmmmm!
smoked oysters and beer, rule dude.
Oh yes, and they are fairly good for you as well. If you like them, try the clams or kippers as well.
Never ate the Vienna Sausages, but the oysters are my guilty pleasure. Santa brought them in my stocking last year. Wife is tolerant of them, but teeth brushing and mouth wash is probably necessary if you want to utilize the mistletoe.
smoked oysters, whole wheat Ritz crackers, dash of tabasco and maybe a little cheese
Weren't Vienna sausages the main protein in the winning dish on Top Chef recently?
yep. in the survival pack quick fire challenge.
cool.
I love Vienna sausages and cold rice. When I was little, I used to sit with my father as he drank beer. I used to eat his pupus – Hormel pickled pigs feet and pickled herring. Yum!
Growing up, my parents bought a lot of vienna sausages and Spam to make sandwiches from. I would bring Spam or vienna sausage sandwiches to school for lunch all the time. A lot of my friends cringe when they see it in my cupboards now.
Where is George Michael when I need him...Sigh.
Answer: deviled ham in a can on Saltines. Once or twice a year.
Oh yeah
Deviled ham on a scrambled egg sandwich. Heaven!
I love Vienna Sausages too. But, something similar I came across when my children were little I like even better are Gerber's meat sticks. The chicken ones are really good, less salty, but taste very much like Vienna sausages. A healthy choice. :-)
Don't get me started on meat sticks. ~_~
Eat whatever you want, buy feeding this processed crap to the little one – unless you are really poor – no excuse. Read up on nutrition.
As your wife, I encourage you to continue to eat these under cover of darkness only. I'm with Nic Robertson on this one.
I love McDonalds cheeseburgers. I am petite and thin and no one would know but I would seriously eat one every day if I could. My husband thinks I'm crazy.
Just because you dont gain weight, dont mean your not gonna pickup the side affects, heart disease, is the most common disease.
They're small. I would not worry about eating one a week if that is all the red meat you eat. They sure are convenient when you're on the run. Couple of bites and you're back on the road.
Two reasons not to eat vienna sausages on a regular basis: saturated fat and sodium.
They are available in low fat and low sodium. Rock on!
Serving Size 7 sausages (drained contents from can)
Calories 260
Calories from Fat 197
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 21.9g 34%
Saturated Fat 8.1g 40%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1.5g
Monounsaturated Fat 10.9g
Cholesterol 98mg 33%
Sodium 1095mg 46%
OMG
No kidding! What about peanut butter on the shelves for how long, in the cupboard for how long? Nay sayers make me laugh....right?
I didn't think it was possible for anything to be less appetizing than Spam, but congratulations Armour, your horrific little weiners have managed. I honestly felt a little nauseous looking at those pale, glistening chunks of extruded meat paste.
I feed vienna sausages to my dog and take him to the vet's office on a regular basis
for intestinal check ups. oh yeah, he is very gassy.
Dogs are embarrassed to just let er rip, like humans do when they excuse themselves to go to the bathroom. You see the dog cannot reach nor manipulate the air freshener. Just teasing ya! LOL
I love barbecue flavor vienna sausages. I refuse to keep them in the house though because I can't control myself (especially the 6paks, I'd have one of those babies gone in 1 rainy afternoon while watching a movie.) It's an occasional indulgence for me and I buy only 1 can at a time maybe 3 or 4 times a year.
sick
I love Vienna Sausages, too. I grew up eating them with crackers. Yum!
I <3 vienna sausages too. I thought I was alone.
Thank you.
I hope you're not hung like a Vienna Sausage
Pic #2 looks like a can of bu tt cheeks.
Great article. (Though I suspect the look on Dr. Gupta's face in that last pic implies a certain, "What did I do to deserve sitting next to Vienna Sausage man, and does he realize what that will do to his children 10 years from now?" feeling...) ;)