A Weisswurst is a traditionalBavariansausage made from minced veal and porkback bacon. It is usually flavored with parsley, lemon, mace, onions, ginger, and cardamom, although there are some variations. Then the mixture is stuffed into pork casings and separated into individual sausages measuring about ten to twelve centimeters in length and three to four centimeters in thickness. As they are not smoked or otherwise preserved they are very perishable. Weißwürste traditionally were manufactured early in the morning and prepared and eaten as a snack between breakfast and lunch. There is a saying that the sausages should not be allowed to hear the noon chime of the church bells. Even today, most Bavarians never eatWeißwürste after lunchtime. The sausages are heated in water—well short of boiling—for about ten minutes, which will turn them greyish-white because no color-preserving nitrite is used in Weisswurst preparation. Weißwürste are brought to the table in a big bowl together with the hot water used for preparation, then eaten without their skins. Ways of eating Weißwurst include the traditional way, called zuzeln, in which each end of the sausage is cut or bitten open, after which the meat is sucked out from the skin. Alternatively, the more popular and more discreet ways of consuming it are by cutting the sausage lengthwise and then "rolling out" the meat from the skin with a fork, or also to open it on one and consume it very much like a banana, ever opening the peel further and dipping the sausage into the mustard. Weißwurst is commonly served with a Bavarian sweet mustard and accompanied by Brezn and Weißbier. Weißwurst, whose consumption traditionally is associated with Bavaria, helped in the coining of a humorous term, Weißwurstäquator, that delineates a cultural boundary separating other linguistic and cultural areas from Southern Germany. The Weißwurst was invented 1857 at the Marienplatz in Munich. Despite this "mid-1800s invention," Weißwürste can be found pictured in publications dating to the early 1800s.
