Not many people know that Archibald K. Wortham, the “inventor” of the tasty Vienna sausage, is actually buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis.
On July 19th, the anniversary of Wortham’s birth, his devoted fans (mostly former Boy Scouts) leave empty cans of the delicious concoction at his gravesite.
Why he is buried here is a mystery, since he was born in Vienna, Austria (as you might expect), traveled to America in the early 1900s to work in a tin-can factory outside Baltimore, and then spent the rest of his life in Vienna, Virginia (where it is pronounced, as many do the sausage, Vi-EEN-a).
