Hot dog and...?

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So I've started working on a hot dog stand (an hot dog or a hot dog? ;o ) and we sell two kinds of meat in a sandwich.

We sell a hot dog and we sell this meat.

But apperently, when I tried to use a translator, it told me that this thing (Called "Naknik", ?????, in Hebrew) is called sausage in English.

But apperently a regular hot dog is a sausage too, according to the same translator.

So I'm confuse, how do you call this kind of meat?

Yum, that made me hungry! =DD

Well thanks in advnace.

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Try salami:

The sandwich has cold cuts.

CalifJim · Answer

This might interest you.

http://www.balashon.com/2006/11/naknik.html

It claims that naknik means "sausage", and naknikiya means "hot dog".

The word "sarsiche" printed on that package is also suspiciously like the words "salsiccia" (Italian), "salchicha" (Spanish), and "saucisse" (French), which are all words for sausage.

CJ

Anonymous · Answer

Huh, I'm still confused. So what if someone asks me for a sausage - does it mean he wants a hot dog or "Naknik" - a Salami? ;o

By the way, There's no Hebrew word for "Sarsiche" - I guess it's just the name of the company or something that produces the Salami.

Do American people use the word "Pastrami"? Is it common food there? Because we actually sell a white "Naknik" and not a brown "Naknik", and I want to be accurate when selling.

Last question - Is it "an hot" or "a hot"? It's really difficult to hear whether the letter H is unsounded or not in a word.

Thanks again! I should create an account later. =D

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Sausage is finely chopped up meat (usually pork and beef) in an edible casing (traditionally made from the intestines). Usually the meat in sausage is from the parts of the animals that would otherwise be wasted. It is a general category - there are many types of sausage. Before refridgeration, meat was smoked or dried for preservation. It was used in making sausage.

I mentioned salami because it is beef and comes in a Kosher variety.

Pork sausage is common countries like Germany and Poland.

Hot dogs are made from the cheapest meats, and usually so finely ground up that the meaty texture is completely gone. There are Kosher hot dogs, though.

See the link on cold cuts, which are processed preserved meats. Pastrami is one of these. It is very common in New York. There are many varieties of cold cuts!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastrami

CalifJim · Answer

AnonymousSo what if someone asks me for a sausage - does it mean he wants a hot dog or "Naknik" - a Salami?

Have you considered asking him exactly that question?

AnonymousThere's no Hebrew word for "Sarsiche"

I assumed as much. It's not written in Hebrew script on the package.

AnonymousIs it "an hot" or "a hot"?

ahot

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AnonymousI should create an account later.

Excellent idea!

CJ

Vorpar · Answer

In AmE, we would be unlikely to call a hot dog a sausage (though it technically is).

The most common uses for the word sausage would be breakfast sausage or Italian sausage (usually on a pizza). Almost everything else is called by a more specific name: Kielbasa, linguica, chorizo, etc.

Khoff · Answer

Why don't you ask your boss what to call it in English?  (It looks like salami to me.  Definitely not pastrami.)

CalifJim · Answer

khoffIt looks like salami to me.

It looks like spam to me.

CJ

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