Currywurst

Currywurst 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-Imbisss, at diners or "greasy spoons," on children's menus in restaurants, or as a street food. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1070x652, 550 KB) A German en:currywurst, photo uploaded under GNU license to the German Wikipedia on 17 April 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1070x652, 550 KB) A German en:currywurst, photo uploaded under GNU license to the German Wikipedia on 17 April 2005. ... German Cuisine varies greatly from region to region. ... For other uses, see Pork (disambiguation). ... This article is about the prepared meat. ... This article is about the dish. ... For the computer protocol, see SAUCE. Or see source. ... This article is about the condiment. ... Tomato paste is a thick paste made from ripened tomatos with skin and seeds removed. ... Curry Powder in a jar Curry powder is a mixture of spices of widely varying composition developed by the British during their colonial rule of India. ... Take-out, carry-out ( in American English ) or take-away ( in British English ) is food purchased at a restaurant but eaten elsewhere. ... A diner in Freehold Borough, New Jersey This article is about a type of restaurant. ... The Regency Cafe in Pimlico, London, is a well-preserved 1940s greasy spoon cafe. ... For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... A portable night-time Tex-Mex street-food stand outside the Helsinki railway station, Finland. ...

Usually served with French fries or bread rolls, it is 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. French fried potatoes, commonly known as French fries or fries (North America) or chips (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth) are pieces of potato that have been chopped into batons and deep fried. ... Two rolls Bread Rolls at a bakery Bread Rolls in a basket A bread roll is a piece of bread, usually small and round and is commonly considered a side dish. ... Ruhr Area within Germany Map of the Ruhr Area The Ruhr Area, also called simply Ruhr, (German Ruhrgebiet, colloquial Ruhrpott or Kohlenpott) is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, consisting of a number of large formerly industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... Food booth vendors cooking sausages at University District Street Fair, University District, Seattle, Washington. ... Packaged food aisles in a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. ...

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. Fast food is food prepared and served quickly at a fast-food restaurant or shop at low cost. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... For other uses, see Pizza (disambiguation). ... The döner meat is being sliced from a rotating spit. ... American cultural icons. ...

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. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Former German name of the city of Kaliningrad. ... Location of Charlottenburg in Berlin Charlottenburg palace Charlottenburg is an area of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. ... Ruhr Area within Germany Map of the Ruhr Area The Ruhr Area, also called simply Ruhr, (German Ruhrgebiet, colloquial Ruhrpott or Kohlenpott) is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, consisting of a number of large formerly industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to... Essen is a city in the center of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Uwe Timm (* 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German author. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ...

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. The title of this article contains the character ö. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Herbert Groenemeyer. ... Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... In linguistics, a sociolect is the language spoken by a social group, social class or subculture. ...

External links

• All about Currywurst (German Fanpage)
• Currywurst Club Hamburg (German Fanpage)
• Deutsches Currywurst Museum Berlin
• Currywurst recipe variant and photos