Everything about Currywurst totally explained
Currywurst (Also pronounced curryvurst in german) is a
German dish consisting of hot
pork sausage (
German:
Wurst) cut into slices and seasoned with
curry sauce (regularly consisting of
ketchup or
tomato paste blended with curry) and generous amounts of
curry powder, or a ready-made ketchup-based sauce seasoned with curry and other spices. 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.
Usually served with
French fries or
bread rolls, it's particularly popular in the metropolitan areas of the
Ruhr Area,
Berlin, and
Hamburg. Considerable variation both in the type of sausage used and the ingredients of the sauce occurs between these areas, and there are disputes over where
currywurst was originally invented and which version is the best.
Sometimes currywurst is sold in
food booth with a machine that will slice and spice with sausage. It is also sold as a
supermarket-shelf product to prepare at home.
For decades, currywurst has been by far Germany's most popular
fast food, especially among
working-class Germans. In recent years its popularity has suffered due to the competition of
pizza and
döner kebab. Nevertheless, it remains easily available almost everywhere and continues to be
culturally iconic.
Currywurst seems to have been invented in the post-
World War II West Germany, although the exact time and place of the event remain subject to controversy. According to the Berlin legend, currywurst sauce was invented by one Herta Heuwer (b. June 30, 1913,
Königsberg, d. July 3, 1999 in Berlin) when, while waiting for customers at her sausage stall in Berlin's
Charlottenburg district on the rainy day of September 4, 1949, she started to experiment with the ingredients out of sheer boredom. According to the
Ruhr-area legend, the sauce was accidentally invented by a sausage stall owner in
Essen, who dropped a can with curry powder into some ketchup. In his 1993 novella entitled
Die Entdeckung der Currywurst ("The Discovery of the Currywurst"), the renowned author
Uwe Timm dates it to 1947 and attributes it to a fictional character called Lena Brücker, who ran a stall in
Hamburg.
Early in his career German pop singer
Herbert Grönemeyer, raised in
Bochum, devoted a song to currywurst with lyrics in the typical
sociolect of the Ruhr area.
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