A variant spelling of cervelas, a Swiss-style smoked sausage made from a mixture of pork and beef, sometimes with garlic and spices.
From French cervelas, with this variant spelling appearing in English and German texts; the word likely derives from Latin cervices (necks) due to the sausage's traditional casing source.
The spelling 'cervelat' vs. 'cervelas' shows how the same Swiss sausage took different English routes—Germans borrowed it as 'Cervelat' while the French version became 'cervelas,' proving that even food words get lost in translation.
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