Cold cut

Cold cuts are precooked or cured meat, often sausages or meat loaves, that are sliced and usually served cold on sandwiches or on party trays. They can be bought pre-sliced in vacuum packs at a supermarket or grocery store, or they can be purchased at a delicatessen or deli counter, where they might be sliced to order. Most pre-sliced cold cuts are higher in fat, nitrates, and sodium than those that are sliced to order, as a larger exposed surface requires stronger preservatives. In any case, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) advises that those over 50 reheat cold cuts to "steaming hot" 165 °F (73.9 °C) and use them within four days.

Cold cuts also may be known as lunch meats, luncheon meats, sandwich meats, cooked meats, sliced meats, cold meats, and deli meats. In Commonwealth countries and the U.K., luncheon meat refers specifically to products that can include mechanically reclaimed meat, and offal. In British English, the terms cold meats, cooked meats, or sliced meats are used instead.

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The Spanish word for cold cut, fiambre, is also used in street slang to refer to a dead body (more common in Chile and Argentina), because of the word used to express low temperatures of the bodies.

In Guatemala, a cold cut is a traditional dish eaten in November. It is eaten the first and second day of the month to celebrate "El día de Todos los Santos" (All Saints' Day) and "El día de Todos los Difuntos" (All Souls' Day). There are two types: red and white.

Types

 * Bierwurst or beerwurst
 * Blood tongue (Zungenwurst)
 * Bologna
 * Lebanon
 * Braunschweiger
 * Bresaola
 * Capicola (coppa)
 * Chicken breast
 * Chicken loaf (also known as chicken roll)
 * Chorizo
 * Corned beef
 * Cotechino
 * Devon
 * Dutch Loaf
 * Gelbwurst
 * Ham
 * Baked
 * Boiled
 * Chipped chopped
 * Cooked
 * Éisleker
 * Jamón: serrano or ibérico.
 * Prosciutto
 * Smoked
 * Head cheese
 * Salceson
 * Jagdwurst
 * Krakowska (Kraków-style pork sausage)
 * Liverwurst


 * Meatloaf
 * Ham & cheese loaf
 * Olive loaf
 * Pepper loaf
 * Pimento loaf
 * Spiced luncheon loaf
 * Veal loaf
 * Mortadella
 * Pastrami
 * Pork roll
 * Prasky
 * Polony
 * Roast beef
 * Roast pork
 * Salami
 * Alpino
 * Capicola
 * Finocchiona
 * Italian-style
 * Jewish-style
 * Pepperoni
 * Soppressata
 * Saucisson sec (dry, maturing, salty, savoury-tasting French salami)
 * Smoked meat
 * Summer sausage
 * Teewurst
 * Thuringian sausage
 * Tongue
 * Turkey breast