“Awe, your dog is so cute! What’s his name?” I reply, “Salchichas” but you can call him “Sal”. For short, he would be “Sal”, or her “Sally”. How Vienna Sausage translates to “Salchichas” is beyond me, but if I ever get another dog, I’m naming him or her “Salchichas”. While searching there, an interesting dish I found is this Latin dish called “Arroz Con Salchichas”, which translates to “Rice with Vienna Sausage”. I’ve also never tried Vienna Sausage in a bun like a hot dog, yet not surprisingly, that’s been done. Nor have I seen or tried a Vienna Sausage Manapua, which surprisingly did NOT show up in Google. Image source: Arroz Con Salchichas (Rice with VIenna Sausage). Yet whaddaya’ know? A quick Google search and yep, it’s been done!… One thing I’ve never seen in person or tried are Vienna Sausage Pig-in-the-Blankets. If not mixed IN the omelette, the obvious other way being pan-fried on da’ side with eggs (and rice, not shown) is another popular way us locals enjoy eating Vienna Sausage for breakfast… or lunch… or dinner… or at 2am in the morning after a rough night. Yeah, that’s pretty “ghetto”, but hey, sometimes them “Cheap Eats” are the most satisfying!įried Rice Pork Adobo Omelet with side of Vienna Sausage. Oh like with “Saimin” (instant ramen) as shown above. Now let’s crank up the fun and take this from a Vienna Sausage Party to a Vienna Sausage Fest! As in the various fun ways to serve and eat Vienna Sausage. And this is eating it straight out of the can at room temp’, not pan-fried, as most (sane) folks would do to serve it. the slightly more artificial tasting and mushier Libby’s®. Getting to it, we (4 of us) tried each one side-by-side, having the Libby’s® and Great Value™ Vienna Sausage handed to us blindly, consecutively one after the other, using simply a glass of water as a palate buffer (chaser).Īnd guess which one unanimously won the sausage shootout? Walmart’s Great Value won! The Great Value® beat Libby’s Vienna Sausage by an admittedly slim margin, having a slightly better, natural tasting “meaty” flavor and more pleasing, firmer texture vs. See, I told you there’s at least one “chemical” ingredient with at least 4 syllables in “erythorbate”, which I won’t bother looking up, nor do I want to know. Not surprisingly, the Libby’s Vienna Sausage ingredients are almost identical: mechanically separated chicken, chicken water, beef, pork, contains less than 2% of salt, sugar, spices, sodium erythorbate, flavoring, sodium nitrite, garlic powder. contains 2% or sess of: natural flavors, garlic powder, dextrose, sodium nitrite. lolĪctually in slight variation, the ingredients for Walmart’s Great Value Vienna Sausage are quite standard fare for most other types of highly processed weiner/sausages and “meat in a can”: mechanically separated chicken, water, beef, pork, salt, corn syrup. Which has me thinking already that it has more “filler” mixed in it with a chemical name requiring 4 syllables to pronounce properly. Notice Walmart’s Great Value Vienna Sausage has more girth, appearing plump and swollen compared to the Libby’s brand. We’ll get to more ways to serve Vienna Sausage shortly (no pun intended), however first let’s compare these two brands. I’ll eat it if it’s say, in an omelette like this… That said, still, I don’t detest Vienna Sausage. Bringing to mind “that” SPAM Spread I reviewed a while back I somewhat detested. In my opinion, Vienna Sausage tastes basically like a tube-shaped version of Deviled Ham Meat Spread that of which what I’d imagine cat food tastes like. In fact, I can’t remember EVER personally buying a can of the stuff, at least for my own consumption. Personally I never cared for Vienna Sausage as a kid, nor do I now. And it probably still is for many of you, irregardless of income level. However, while growing up when our parents were struggling to make ends meet, like SPAM, Vienna Sausage was THE go-to protein of choice. In economically better times, these infamous “micro weiners in-a-can” may not be a regular staple in the pantry. While I haven’t seen the movie yet, we had a “Sausage Party” of our own recently out of sheer lunchtime boredom, comparing the well known brand Libby’s® Vienna Sausage with a knock-off under Walmart’s Great Value™ brand.
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