Käsekrainer is a type of lightly smoked

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containing roughly torn bits of

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and 10% to 20% cheese (for example Emmentaler) cut into small cubes. They are sold all over

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outlets. It is a variety of

Carniolan sausage The Carniolan sausage ( sl, kranjska klobasa; en-AU, Kransky, german: Krainer Wurst, Italian dialect of Trieste: ''luganighe de Cragno'') is a Slovenian sausage similar to what is known as kielbasa or Polish sausage in North America. The no ...

. Käsekrainer was invented by two people from

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, 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

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and freshly cut

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, other varieties with mustard and

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, optionally sprinkled with

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. A popular dish is the Käsekrainer

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, 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

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area. Käsekrainer should not be confused with the Berner sausage, a

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(Austrian: ''Frankfurter'') cut lengthways, filled with Emmentaler cheese and wrapped in roast bacon.

Controversy about name

In April 2012

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announced it would seek to have the product name "Krainer" (after Krain, the German name for the Slovenian area of Carniola) to be protected by the EU. This would have caused this Austrian sausage to be renamed. On 15 June 2012 Austria and Slovenia reached a compromise. Slovenia could have the term " Kranjska Klobasa" protected by the EU. The same sausages could still be called "Krainer Wurst" or "Käsekrainer" in Austria.

Use in the Viennese dialect

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, where Käsekrainer is a very popular dish, according to

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,Winter, Christoph
Die Eitrige. Der gute Benimm am Würstelstand
''

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'' 11 July 2006. Accessed on 29 August 2012. 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

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of the name of the singer

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(''"Tschenifer"'' being the German pronunciation of the name Jennifer, corresponding to the similarity between the surname Rush and the

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word ''rasch'', meaning "quickly") has appeared. Sedlaczek, Robert:
Das 16er Blech macht Karriere
', ''Sedlaczek am Mittwoch'', ''

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'' 13 March 2007, accessed on 29 August 2012.

References

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* {{commonscat-inline Cooked sausages Austrian cuisine