The Sausage Barrel

In 1637 a bacon seller bought this property. One hundred years later, the name worst vat or sausage barrel came on the facade. It can be seen how sausage was packed in barrels. Clear Sausage, salt meat or salt fish served as food on the ships to the East and West Indies. Salted fish (bakkeljauw) and sometimes cured meat were also distributed to the slaves on the plantations once a year. This in stead of wages they would never get.

In 1791 Bohn printing settled here, publishing the work of Beets. He wanted to remove the pigs, but till today they are still on the facade.

The quote on the facade translates as: The crowned east and west indies sausage barrel. The pigs are eating from the cornucopia