Smoked Sausage

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  When a product is called smoked sausage, it is always smoked. Most or all of its flavor comes from the way it is cooked. It is often a combination of meats, including pork, beef, chicken and turkey, and usually sold in convenient links.
  
  

Kielbasa

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  Kielbasa is either unsmoked or lightly-smoked, and it originated as a coiled pork sausage. Its flavor comes from heavy seasoning -- often garlic, marjoram and other spices. While westerners may refer to it as Polish sausage, those native to Poland consider the word a generic term. There are hundreds of kielbasas.
  
  

Similarities

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  Since they are of the sausage family, both kielbasa and smoked sausage are made of various types of chopped meats. Both products are pumped into casings made of animal skin or intestine. They can be cooked and served similarly, depending on preference.