Talk:Cervelat

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A fact from Cervelat appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 29 March 2008.

[edit] Ice

The article has always said:

• The Swiss variety, however, is a cooked sausage made of ten parts minced beef, bacon and pork rind, and eight parts ice.

Ice sausage? It sounds more like a slurry. As a guess, should it say "rice"? -Will Beback 07:53, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

So. Let's see: On the German wikipedia, the same is repeated. Now of all wikipedias one would expect de to have accurate articles on sausages. These are important matters. But maybe this error slipped in and, unnoticed, was translated? We must resort to google.

The website http://www.sf.tv/sf1/kassensturz/sendung/beitrag.php?beitragid=805 , which is that of a (actually the) swiss consumer's organisation, mentions the composition of a Cervelat. They say it contains "viel Eis". Other websites - obtained by googling "cervelat rezept" or "cervelat inhalt" - confirm this. Ice is, it seems, there to bind the other ingredients.

Rice? Rice sausage? Perish the thought

[edit] Garlic

In Belgium, the cervela or cervelat is a garlic sausage (which is in Dutch language lookworst, the official term for the colloquially and commonly named cervela). It's porc but I am not certain whether beef goes in as well. The skin used to be clear red coloured and this artificial coloration soaked into the outer millimetres of meat. The colour became forbidden because of an unhealthy ingredient and the cervela became ordinary brownish. Nowadays one finds both brown and (now by different pigments) red cervelas. It is usually eaten cold, with bread or as accompaniment to French fried potatoes at a street stall. The latter may also serve it deep-fried (which was very unusual until about 40 years ago. Which relation does this cervela[t] have to the topic of this article? — SomeHuman 17 Apr 2007 22:41 (UTC)