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cabana


sausage like cabanossi: Cabana makes a great snack.

Contributor's comments: Having discovered something unsavoury in a stick of cabana as a kid in the Adelaide Central market, I have a vivid memory of that word being in use in that city as well.

Contributor's comments: Also used in Tasmania.

Contributor's comments: Note that in the USA a cabana is a sort of bungalow (which see) on the beach or near a pool, used as a changing room. Also the whole area near a pool, as in a hotel's `cabana level', whose rooms open on to the poolside area. The truth is that I've been living in the USA so long that I'd forgotten all about the sort of cabana that you can eat, until I saw it on this site. Now my mouth is watering, and on my next trip home I'm going to have to get some...

Contributor's comments: This is a Tasmanian term as well.

Contributor's comments: Cabana is a term also used in Tassy to refer to the cabanossi-like sausage.

Contributor's comments: [Adelaide informant] Cabana is an Australianised version of the word cabanossi. Do a Google search for cabana and cabanossi together and you will see that it is a common name for the smallgood.

Contributor's comments: Also spelt "Kabanos" in Woolworths supermarkets. Gourmet verisions are produced, too.