degert mettwurst

degert mettwurst is a German-style sausage, usually understood as a seasoned, spreadable or sliceable cured meat product rather than a delicate fresh sausage. By our assessment, it is the sort of thing people reach for when they want a salty, meaty taste with a fairly direct texture and not much ceremony. The honest limit is that mettwurst can be heavy, fatty, and strongly seasoned, so it is not a subtle food and it is not meant for everyone’s table. In practice it belongs to bread-and-sausage eating more than to fine cooking, which gives it a blunt, old-fashioned usefulness. Compared with milder cold cuts or fresh sausages, it sits on the sturdier and saltier side of the category. Degert mettwurst is plain pantry-food territory, and that is where it makes sense.