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Food & Drink > Vienna Sausage and Beanee Weenee
 

Vienna Sausage and Beanee Weenee

A book I read recently mentioned Vienna sausage and someone pronouncing it vy-enna. I can't remember which book this was or how it fit into the story, but we've got a couple cans of them that came in Las Vegas hotel gift baskets, so that's what I had for supper tonight.



When I was a kid, the only time we had Vienna Sausage aka 'little weenies' was when we visited my grandparents at Ismay Trading Post in southwest Colorado. If you go there you can get a 'lunch' that is a can of Vienna Sausage, a tube of Saltines, a candy bar or a tube of Fig Newtons, and a can of pop, placed in a brown lunch bag.

When the Navajos pawn their turquoise jewelry it goes into one of those brown paper lunch sacks and the pertinent info gets written on the outside:
Jennie Tsosie 5/16/02
$16.00
$5.00 gas
Lunch

This means that in exchange for an elaborate bracelet Ms. Tsosie received $16.00 cash, some gasoline and one of those lunches. The bracelet will stay there in the sack hung on the wall until some special event like a dance comes up and the Tsosie sons will come and redeem it for a few days, then bring it back and pawn it again.

We'd take our lunch and climb to the top of the mesa that overlooks the store. When we were small, that was an all-day hike with our mother. The Vienna Sausage cans opened with a key back then, so the edge was sharp, and we'd use that to slice the sausages in half, but we always ate them cold.

Mr. Troutbend's family ate Vienna Sausage warmed up, split in half and arranged on buttered bread, and he seems to have fond memories of it, just as I have my own of our way.

Nowadays you can get different flavors of Vienna Sausage - smoked, in barbecue sauce, jalapeno, and hot-spicy, but I prefer the traditional flavor.



I like little weenies sliced into Van Camp's Pork and Beans, the same thing as "Beanee Weenee" which you can also buy from Uncle Robert at Ismay Trading Post.



Uncle Robert with some of the zucchini harvest. Yes, that is what his yard looks like - this is one of the less cluttered parts.

posted on Nov 21, 2008 10:55 PM ()

Comments:

Ah Vienna sausage, Saltines, cheese and a RC, Maybe a Moon Pie for desert. I have had that for lunch more times than I can remember.
However I am afraid to check out what they are made of. Some things you are better off just not knowing.
comment by grumpy on Nov 23, 2008 11:24 AM ()
Those are some big squash! I like Beenie Weenie. It's not very gourmet, but good when you have a hankering for it!
comment by busymichmom on Nov 23, 2008 8:33 AM ()
Me thinks sardines would be better for one's health. I'm still p.o.ed about not finding your uncle's trading post. I know it's out there somewhere! One of these days.
comment by solitaire on Nov 23, 2008 7:57 AM ()
Hey what happened to you at Universal? I was there all day on that Sunday
comment by teacherwoman on Nov 22, 2008 7:00 PM ()
beenee weenee(okay, will not say more on this).
Never had Vienna sausage.
comment by fredo on Nov 22, 2008 7:48 AM ()
Watch out for those 'mechanically separated chickens!'
The Front Range is looking good.
comment by jondude on Nov 22, 2008 7:39 AM ()
I have never seen a mechanically separated chicken. Elsewise, your early memories are charming. My best to Uncle Robert.
comment by tealstar on Nov 22, 2008 7:21 AM ()
My wife, a Southern girl, pronounces it vy-enna.
comment by looserobes on Nov 22, 2008 7:01 AM ()
I likes weeners! DAdy cooks em gude!
comment by hobbie on Nov 22, 2008 6:53 AM ()

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