Basically Zungenwurst is a Blutwurst (blood sausage) that also contains pigs tongues. The pigs tongues are put into a big drum with salt and some water for about 24hrs, then they are cooked for a while, before being shock cooled in ice water. You know that the tongues are correctly cooked at this point because the slime and other crappy bits of the tongue can be removed with your bare hands without much effort.
While this is going on, fat from a pig's back gets cubed and cooked in boiling water. You know the fat cubes are ready when you squeeze one between your fingers and it easily springs out and flies around the room.
Into our lovely pig fat comes a shit load of fresh (important) pigs blood. If it wasn't fresh, the blood would have clumps and wouldn't taste like fresh death - and we wouldn't want that now, would we?
After the death juice and the fat gets mixed together for a while, it is then filled (by hand - poor sausage makers) into synthetic intestines (sausage skin), and then 4 full tongues are inserted by hand into the blood and back-fat mix that is now conjealing and quivering in the food-condom.
The slowly conjealing mass is now cooked for a couple of hours to ensure that the blood and tongue doesn't try and french-kiss you like an French Rugby Union front-rower who just got hit in the mouth when you try and eat it, and then gets shipped off for us to enjoy (?!?!?!) on our tables all over Germany.
Now, I have seen some pretty horrible sausages in my time here, but this one "licks" them all.
This is the variety with the whole tongues and diced pig fat. There are also other "cheaper" varieties where the tongue is cubed and mixed in, so you don't know if that chewy disgusting mass in your mouth is fat, pig tongue, or a part of your own tongue that you bit off in the hope that you would never taste anything like this ever again...
Tschüß,
'Brushy.
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I'm pretty sure that its still much nicer then what they put into four'n twenty pies back home!
That is very possibly true. At least they are honest about the shit that the put into it here. In fact, on of the guys in my office said "it is one of the purest forms of sausage you will find" because you at least know the contents, as opposed to Leberwust and other mystery meat.
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