Currywurst
Currywurst is a German dish. It is made from a pork sausage (German: wurst), sliced and covered in a curry sauce (usually ketchup or tomato paste blended with curry) and generous amounts of curry powder.
Currywurst is often sold as a take-out/take-away food, Schnell-Imbisse, at diners or "greasy spoons," on children's menus in restaurants, or as a street food.
Berlin legend says that Herta Heuwer, from Königsberg, invented the currywurst sauce by experimenting at her stall in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1949.[1]
People from the Ruhr-area say that the sauce was accidentally invented by a sausage stall owner in Essen, who dropped a can with curry powder into some ketchup.
Early in his career German pop singer Herbert Grönemeyer, raised in Bochum, wrote a song, in the Ruhr dialect, to currywurst.
Although Berlin claims currywurst as its invention and "national dish", all over Germany, there are more than 20 different types of currywurst.
Other websites
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- All about Currywurst (German Fanpage)
- Currywurst Club Hamburg (German Fanpage)
- Deutsches Currywurst Museum Berlin
- Currywurst recipe variant and photos Archived 2008-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
References
change- ↑ "Wo gibt's in Berlin die beste Currywurst?". Berliner Morgenpost newspaper. 30 August 2004. Archived from the original on 2007-04-04. Retrieved 2008-03-06.