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sausage
A processed meat product made from ground meat stuffed into a casing. In Japan, ソーセージ typically refers to small, smooth-textured sausages similar to frankfurters or wieners.
Common collocations
- ソーセージを焼く: to grill sausages
- ソーセージを炒める: to pan-fry sausages
- 魚肉ソーセージ: fish sausage (a popular Japanese snack)
- 粗挽きソーセージ: coarsely ground sausage
Similar words
- ウインナー: Vienna-style sausage; in everyday speech the two are often interchangeable, and most small sausages in supermarkets are labeled ウインナー
Cultural note
タコさんウインナー (octopus-shaped sausages) are a classic 弁当 decoration, made by cutting slits in the end of a small sausage before cooking.