Kishka

Kishka or kishke (Slovenian kašnica; Belarusian кішка, kishka; Polish kiszka; Romanian chişcă; Silesian krupńok; Yiddish kishke; Hebrew קישקע) refers to various types of sausage or stuffed with a filling made from a combination of meat and meal, often a grain. The dish is popular across as well as with immigrant communities from those areas. It is also eaten by  who prepare their version according to  dietary laws. The name itself is in origin, and literally means "gut" or "".

Description
One kishka type is kaszanka, a blood sausage made with   and  or, with pig intestines used as a casing. Similar to black pudding, it is traditionally served at breakfast.

Kishkas can also be made with an organ meat, such as liver and various grain stuffings. The cooked kishke can range in color from grey-white to brownish-orange, depending on how much is used and the other ingredients. There are also kishka recipes.

The sausages are popular in areas of the United States, where many Poles emigrated. There are numerous mail order companies and delis that sell various kishkas. As blood is often used as an ingredient, kishkas are considered an acquired taste.

Greater Bialystok Area Kiszka
Is usually made in a way very similar to the Jewish Kishke (80% of the residents of before  were Jewish), but in the majority of cases, pig intestines are used, and ground potatoes are the main.

"Who Stole the Kishka?"
"" (originally spelled "Who Stole the Keeshka?") is a traditional tune, composed in the 1950s by  and recorded and played by various bands. One popular version was familiar to American radio audiences from a recording by Grammy award-winning polka artist.

A portion of the song includes three of various lyrics having to do with Polish foods, depending on who performs the song:

You can have my shinka Take my sweet krusczyki Take my plump You can even have my chernika Take my long kielbasa

The verse ends with the pleading refrain "but please bring back my kishka." Shinka is ham, while chernika refers to blueberries.

Jewish cuisine
The Ashkenazic Jewish dish called kishke is traditionally made from a kosher beef intestine stuffed with meal, rendered fat ( or beef fat), and spices. Blood and pork are not used, as they are forbidden by dietary rules.

In recent times edible synthetic casings often replace the beef intestines. Homemade helzel, a sausage-like dish consisting of chicken neck skin stuffed with a flour-based mixture, is sometimes referred to as false kishka.

Kishka is available in some  and ; in  it is available in the frozen-foods section of most supermarkets.