Meaning
The little tinned sausages — cheap, soft, and pink — that are a pantry staple in Jamaican homes. 'Vienna' (as it's usually clipped) is fried up with onion, tomato, and ketchup and eaten with white rice or in a sandwich, an easy, filling meal when money or time is short. Like tinned mackerel and corned beef, it is a mainstay of stretch-a-dollar cooking.
Examples
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Fry up di vienna wid onion an rice.
Fry up the vienna sausages with onion and rice.
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A tin a vienna mek a quick dinner.
A tin of vienna sausages makes a quick dinner.
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Di pickney love vienna inna dem sandwich.
The children love vienna sausages in their sandwich.
Origin
From 'Vienna sausage' (the tinned frankfurter); a cheap pantry staple. See [[bully-beef]], [[tin-mackerel]].
How it’s used
Tinned little sausages, fried with rice or in a sandwich; a cheap staple. See [[bully-beef]], [[mackerel]].