Käsekrainer facts for kids
Käsekrainer is a type of lightly smoked Brühwurst containing roughly torn bits of pork and 10% to 20% cheese (for example Emmentaler) cut into small cubes. They are sold all over Austria at Würstelstand outlets. It is a variety of Carniolan sausage. Käsekrainer was invented by two people from Upper Austria, chef Herbert Schuch from Buchkirchen and Franz Thalhammer in the late 1960s.
Preparation and variants
Käsekrainer can be cooked, roasted or grilled.
The original Käsekrainer is served with mustard and freshly cut horseradish, other varieties with mustard and ketchup, optionally sprinkled with curry powder.
A popular dish is the Käsekrainer hot dog, where a Käsekrainer is served in a hollow piece of white bread with mustard and/or ketchup. The Käsekrainer Bosna sandwich, resembling a sandwich, is known as a "Kafka" in the Linz area.
Käsekrainer should not be confused with the Berner sausage, a Vienna sausage (Austrian: Frankfurter) cut lengthways, filled with Emmentaler cheese and wrapped in roast bacon.
Use in the Viennese dialect
In Vienna, where Käsekrainer is a very popular dish, according to urban legend, it is customary to give an order at a Würstelstand outlet as: "a Eitrige mit an Schoafn, an Bugel und an 16er-Blech" (Viennese dialect German for: "a Käsekrainer with strong mustard, a bread loaf edge and a glass of Ottakringer beer"), where the use of this phrase, in reality uncommon in actual Viennese parlance, inspired by its frequent utterance in tourist guides and television as the typical Viennese expression, can quickly mark its user as an inexperienced tourist. In modern times, the addition "owa Tschenifer" ("and quickly"), a cacography of the name of the singer Jennifer Rush ("Tschenifer" being the German pronunciation of the name Jennifer, corresponding to the similarity between the surname Rush and the German language word rasch, meaning "quickly") has appeared.
See also
In Spanish: Käsekrainer para niños
