Pölsa

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Pölsa is a traditional Swedish dish, a type of hash similar to haggis and scrapple. The main ingredients are minced beef, liver, heart, onion, and pot barley, mixed with stock, black pepper, and marjoram. It is usually served with boiled or fried potatoes, pickled beetroot, and sometimes a fried egg.

The dish plays a central role in Torgny Lindgren's allegorical novel "Hash" (Pölsan), in which two men go on a personal quest across postwar Sweden in search of a true Swedish hash.

The Norwegian and Danish word, pølse, means sausage and even if the two dishes don't look the same, the two words are related. Pölsa is simply a traditional variety of sausage filling without any casing. The word pølse can also describe the appearance of an object, like "it looks like a pølse", and "it's pølse shaped" (i.e. sausage shaped).