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Bregenwurst

York Sausage

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ454854 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bregenwurst (also Brägenwurst) is a German sausage variety commonly served in parts of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

It is traditionally made of pork, pork belly, and pig or cattle brain, however animal brains have been forbidden in foodstuffs within the European Union since 2001, as a consequence of BSE outbreaks.

The sausage is eaten raw or stewed, which gives it a spreadable consistency once broken from its casing. In winter it is also served with Grünkohl (kale).

The name Bregenwurst comes from the Low German word Bregen (or Brägen) meaning "brain" .

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“Bregenwurst” enters the record as york Sausage. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bregenwurst, York and Sausage can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bregenwurst” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.