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  • Equally memorable was the 'makkara' - sausage - we cooked afterward on sticks over the sauna stove, then dabbed in a sweet-hot 'sinnapi' - mustard.

    Escape From Cubicle Nation 2009

  • Standing rib roasts were a regular fixture of our table, along with pork roasts, makkara (a type of Finnish sausage, rather bland, like bologna), chicken rolled in crushed potato chips, casseroles (the infamous Midwest "hot dish"), pork chops simmering in Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup, and Cornish pasties, brought to the area by miners imported from the played-out tin mines of Cornwall.

    Coffee Bread Walter Jon Williams 2010

  • Warm Cornish pasties, filled with rutabaga and purportedly so robust that they could be dropped down a mineshaft and not break, Finnish midwinter saunas (and makkara, a ring bologna meant to be cooked over sauna coals) and the cudighi form a triad of Yooper classics.

    Notable Sandwiches #53: Cudighi Talia Lavin 2023

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  • The Finnish word for 'sausage'.

    November 16, 2008