Americans - talk to me about wieners

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Is that a wiener? What is a wiener exactly? It seems to have something to do with sausage?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The preferred spelling of `weiner' is W-I-E-N-E-R, although E-I is an acceptable ethnic variant.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that looks like a chili-cheese dog.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's what I thought.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It came from here:

http://www.texas-wiener.com/Pete's%20Wacky%20Wiener%20World.htm

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

To me, the most common sense of the term is a hot dog - or, if you add "dog" to the end of it, then it's a dachsund (but not a hot dog oddly enough).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The preferred spelling of `weiner' is W-I-E-N-E-R, although E-I is an acceptable ethnic variant.

not to be pedantic but

wiener würstchen = "sausage from vienna"
weiner würstchen = "crying sissy"

― dfsdf, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

In the pic above, the wiener itself is not visible (it refers specifically to the hot dog itself).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wieners:
http://www.zmeats.com/images2/Wiener%2016oz.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Although if you said, "Let's get a hot dog" or "Let's get a wiener", the bun would most likely be signified as well.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Aha, they're hot dogs then?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

if anyone ever said 'let's get a wiener' they would get some very strange looks.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Not for me really. It would be an acceptable sort of 'witty' alternate to say. Like, instead of "let's have a cigarette" say "let's have a grit" or something like that.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

in Providence, RI (and environs) a weiner is a short length of hot dog (usually cut from a multi-foot long 'rope') covered in onions, meat sauce, celery salt and mustard. In this form they are called "New York System," but they have no actual connection to New York.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

interesting.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

see also: a recipe for them and a discourse on RI cuisine, including a long section on the hot weiner.

also URGENT AND KEY: "The classic beverage at hot wiener shops - and at most other Rhode Island restaurants - is coffee milk, which is
like chocolate milk but is made with coffee syrup. Cynthia
Wall, vice president of Autocrat, a coffee producer in the
Providence area, traced coffee milk's origins back to the
1930's, when enterprising diner and drugstore operators
sweetened leftover coffee grounds with milk and sugar,
creating a slurry extract that became as popular with
children as hot coffee was with adults."

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.panix.com/~reynolds/photography/stereo/images/oscar.jpg

― andy, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Weiner = COCK!

― andy, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and i mentioned this on a thread the other day, but i totalled my old car while driving around stoned, following the Oscar Mayer Weiner Mobile.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i think part of the "wiener = sausage" madness can be attributed to the fast food chain "der wienerschnitzel" which sells hot dogs and (ironically) NO WIENERSCHNITZEL.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It must be said.
Burgerpipe - The Burger Of The Future Is Here Now!

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

WELCOME TO DER WIENERSCHNITZEL, MAY I TAKE YR ORDER?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost, because of "der wienerschnitzel" when I was in Wien, at Fugelmuller's I couldn't call them 'wienerschnitzel' and would only speak about how much I enjoyed the 'schnitzel'.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:

NO ALL!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I really loved "Der Wienerschnitzel" when I was a kid - but I don't think I could ever eat there again - except maybe to have one corndog.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmmmmmmm. HOT WEINERS

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i read that as cornhole

(xpost)

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

So how does a frankfurter differ from a wiener? And why is it a wiener if wiener schnitzel is breaded veal cutlets?

Answer me!

― lint (Jack), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait - the second question was already answered. Please ignore it.

― lint (Jack), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think that don is gonna be likin' how we're making fun of his last name.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is it american food threads always make me want to vomit.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

MY sister recently moved to El Centro, CA from Australia. She told us she was going to a "wiener roast". We asked her if it was a all male revue.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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