: a short slender frankfurter
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The food they were given were old Army rations, like Vienna sausages, pickled cabbage.
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Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Conagra manufactures Armour Star Vienna sausages, which are sold for $1 for a 4.6 oz tin in Walgreens stores, for example.
—Jessica Dinapoli, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2024
Family Dollar stores sell, at the cheapest possible prices, an encyclopedic array of domestic necessities and comforts, among them detergent, winter coats, party napkins, pet food, wireless speakers, rakes, strollers, wind chimes and 95-cent cans of Vienna sausage.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
One Google reviewer said that a Vienna sausage was more beachy than Galveston Island.
—Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
Campbell’s soup, Vienna sausage, tuna, mixed vegetables.
—New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
Profanity is as much a part of hunting and fishing as Vienna sausage and wet toilet paper.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 21 Dec. 2020
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Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Conagra manufactures Armour Star Vienna sausages, which are sold for $1 for a 4.6 oz tin in Walgreens stores, for example.
—Jessica Dinapoli, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2024
Family Dollar stores sell, at the cheapest possible prices, an encyclopedic array of domestic necessities and comforts, among them detergent, winter coats, party napkins, pet food, wireless speakers, rakes, strollers, wind chimes and 95-cent cans of Vienna sausage.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
One Google reviewer said that a Vienna sausage was more beachy than Galveston Island.
—Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
Campbell’s soup, Vienna sausage, tuna, mixed vegetables.
—New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
Profanity is as much a part of hunting and fishing as Vienna sausage and wet toilet paper.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 21 Dec. 2020
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“Vienna sausage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Vienna%20sausage. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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