What does "goetta" mean?

A breakfast sausage made with ground meat, oats, and spices, popular in the greater Cincinnati area.

What is a synonym for "goetta"?

Common synonyms include: creton, head cheese, scrapple.

Goetta

//ˈɡɛtə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun

1
A breakfast sausage made with ground meat, oats, and spices, popular in the greater Cincinnati area. Cincinnati, uncountable

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creton head cheese scrapple

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German Götte, Görte, byforms of Grütte, from Middle Low German grütte, from Old Saxon gruttia, from Proto-West Germanic *gruti.

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