A tray of assorted cold cuts.

Cold cuts is a term that refers to cheeses or 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 and sodium than those that are sliced to order.^{[citation needed]}

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 UK, luncheon meat refers specifically to products that can include mechanically reclaimed meat, and (pre BSE) offal.

[edit] Types

• Bierwurst or beerwurst
• Blood tongue (zungenwurst)
• Bologna
  • Lebanon
  • Olive loaf
  • Pepper loaf
  • Pickle loaf
• Braunschweiger
• Bresaola
• Capicola (coppa)
• Chicken breast
• Chorizo
• Saucisson sec (dry, maturing, salty, savoury-tasting French salami, made of pure pork only)
• Corned beef
• Cotechino
• Devon (sausage)
• Gelbwurst
• Ham
  • Baked
  • Boiled
  • Cooked
  • Prosciutto
  • Smoked
• Head cheese
  • Salceson
• Jagdwurst
• Krakauer or krakowska, (Kraków-style pork sausage)
• Liverwurst
• Meatloaf
• Mortadella

Mortadella, a common Deli Meat in Italy and whole Europe, Canada, United States of America, Argentina, and Australia.

• Pastrami
• Prasky
• Polony
• Roast beef
• Roast pork
• Salami
  • Capicola
  • Finocchiona
  • Italian-style
  • Jewish-style
  • Pepperoni
  • Sopressata
• Smoked meat
• Sulze
• Summer sausage
• Turkey breast
• Veal loaf
• Pratik

[edit] Slang

The cold cut word is commonly used in street slang to refer a cadaver (more common in Argentina).

[edit] See also

• Charcuterie

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