Kielbasa
Kiełbasa (the "ł" is pronounced like an english "w") is the generic Polish word for sausage. Sausage is a staple of Polish cuisine and comes in dozens of varieties, smoked and fresh but almost always pork. Every region has its own speciality. Almost all are based on pork. Popular types include kabanosy (thin, air dried sausage made of horse meat and flavoured with caraway seed), krakowska (a thick, straight sausage hot smoked with coriander and garlic), and wiejska (a large U-shaped pork and veal sausage with marjoram and garlic). In the USA, "kielbasa" almost always means some form of wiejska, which may be fully or part-smoked.A can be found at the .
Kielbasa Family
Origin: German
Coat of Arms: Red and yellow, four-quadrant shield. Quadrants contain towers and club-wielding warrior.
(Below is a small excerpt from their 1800-word history:)
Spelling variations include: Kiel, Kiehl, Kehl, Kieler, Kiehler, Kyler, Kielman, Kielmann, Kiehle, von Kiel and many more.
First found in Baden, where the name was anciently associated with the tribal conflicts of the area.
Some of the first settlers in the United States of this name, or some of its variants, were: Christophle Kielman, who arrived in Louisiana in 1720, Johann Martin Kielman, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1753, Johan Georg Kiehl, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1738, Jacob Kiehl, his wife and four children, who came to Pennsylvania in 1752, Johannes Kiehl, who came to America in 1776 as one of the Hessian Troops in the Revolutionary War, Baslion Kieler, who came to South Carolina in 1752, Carl Kiehlmann, who came from Hamburg to New York city in 1851, as well as George Kyler, whose Oath of Allegiance was recorded in Philadelphia 1842.