Berner sausage

Bernese sausages with French fries and horseradish mustard

Bernese sausages with onion, horseradish and puszta sauce

Berner Würstel is the name for Viennese or Frankfurter sausages that have been cut lengthways and filled with strips of cheese (mostly Emmentaler ) and wrapped in smoked bacon . There are also sausage manufacturers who already put the cheese in the sausage meat .

However, Bernese sausages do not come from Switzerland - as the name suggests - but from Zell am See in Austria and are named after their inventor, the chef Erich Berner senior. The district archivist Scholz confirms the oral transmission of the recipe. The chef developed the Bernese sausages as a quick-to-prepare snack for the members of the Zell am See Liedertafel in the 1950s. After the weekly rehearsal, this largest male choir in the federal state of Salzburg often visited Erich Berner in his Tyrolean Weinstüberl in Zell am See.

Individual evidence

↑ WIFF! Austria - This is how Bernese sausages are made ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). TV report in the infotainment magazine WIFF! of the Austrian private television broadcaster Puls 4 on January 16, 2013; with video stream , length: 7:42 minutes; accessed on January 2, 2014.

[1] WIFF! Austria - This is how Bernese sausages are made ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). TV report in the infotainment magazine WIFF! of the Austrian private television broadcaster Puls 4 on January 16, 2013; with video stream , length: 7:42 minutes; accessed on January 2, 2014.