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Kivikylän Hullulenkki

Huittinen, Finland

The factory shop of the meat company Kivikylän Kotipalvaamo, built in the shape of a giant orange sausage next to its sausage plant in Huittinen, on the Route 12 highway. It opened on 16 March 2016; the idea came from managing director Jari Laihonen, who started the company in 1992 from a smoke sauna on his parents' farm in Kivikylä. Inside, about 600 square metres hold a meat counter and a lunch restaurant with 130 seats. The counter sells Kivikylän's own lenkki rings (Iltalenkki, Laivurin lenkki, Löylylenkki and others) straight from the plant behind the wall, and the weekday buffet almost always includes sausage from the factory ovens.

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Sausages from Kivikylän Hullulenkki

Lenkkimakkara

Finland

Lenkkimakkara is the sausage every Finnish fridge seems to hold: a thick, smooth horseshoe of finely ground pork and beef, bound with potato flour, cooked and lightly smoked at the factory. The word means loop sausage. You peel off the casing before eating, because it is plastic or collagen and not meant to be eaten. Finns slice it cold onto rye bread with mustard, fry it, bake it with cheese in the oven, or cut it into a cream sauce or a soup. The best-known brand, HK's Sininen Lenkki, sells more than eight million packs a year.

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