Andouille

Andouille is the sort of pork sausage. It is spicy (hot in taste) and smoked. There are the lot of sorts, all with different combinations of pork meat, fat, intestines (tubes going to the stomach), and tripe (the wall of the stomach). Andouille sausage first came from France or Germany (no-one is sure), and the most famous sort in the USA is the "Cajun" style.

Other sorts are "French andouille" and "German andouille"; ay are less spicy than Cajun. Cajun has extra salt, black pepper, and garlic. Andouille makers smoke the sausages over pecan wood and sugar cane for the maximum of seven or eight hours, at about 175 degrees Fahrenheit (80 degrees Celsius).