Talk:Vienna sausage

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By the way: The Austrians themselves call these kind of sausages "Frankfurter Würstel".

[edit] Internationally

Surely not all viennas come in a can and look like... that? I buy smoked viennas (these), and I can only imagine that they'd taste much, much nicer. They certainly look nicer anyway. I guess my point/question is: what about more traditional vienna sausages, rather than these American canned ones? Halften 07:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

In the USA, when someone says "Vienna sausage," they are, 90% of the time, talking about that type right there, as pictured. Aaрон Кинни (t) 23:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. In American English there is a distinction between "vienna sausages," which are the mushy little things that come in a can, and "weenies" or "weiners," which are much closer to the sausages Halften mentions. "Vienna sausages" are eaten directly from the can, cold, or may be served on crackers as hors d'oeuvres. A few recipes use them for novelty effect of some kind. "Weenies" are normally boiled or steamed and eaten hot, on a white bread roll with mustard and perhaps onions, chili sauce, or sauerkraut. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.227.120.26 (talk) 00:28, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

It appears very much so that the last line of this entery is unsupported assumption based on the author's preferences. No support such as online survey has been linked to this statement and it seems to be more of a commercial than actual fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.158.113.16 (talk) 19:04, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I agree with the previous author, I've never heard vienna sausages referred to as weenies, and always thought those were two very distinct things. 67.80.89.255 (talk) 20:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

I've added a paragraph or two about the product referred to as Viennas in Australia. Also I think in some countries, weenies can refer to more or less any variety of sausages. My personal suspicion is that this is a corruption of wiener, in countries where wiener was not previously a widely used term, but where the population has been exposed to teh term more often over the years due to television, cinema and the like. Here in Australia we also refer to cocktail/party franks as "little boys" - perhaps weenies is a more generic form of that - I'll leave it up to your imaginations to work out the origin of these terms. ;-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.90.231.98 (talk) 13:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)