Virsli

Sausage is a traditional method of preserving meat, and in any country it is the same: it is normally cured with salts then smoked (cooked) or dried (requires additional special processing of the meat to kill such pathogens as trichinosis) for later consumption. If prepared correctly, you do not have to cook such sausage. This includes both kolbász and Frankfurters (but why anyone would eat Frankfurters cold is a good question). But you may re-cook any sausage as an additional step if you want.

The exception to the above is fresh sausages (such as hurka in Hungarian), which contains uncured raw meat, and must be cooked and eaten right away. Those are usually displayed next to the other raw meats in a butcher shop. Of course, some cured and smoked sausages are also displayed there, but they look different.