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Currywurst

Currywurst is one of the most popular types of fast food in Germany. Some 800 million are consumed per year.

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A plate of currywurst and fries.

Currywurst, haggis and rolex: Fast food from around the world

The currywurst, one of the most popular fast foods in Germany, is turning 75. What do people snack on elsewhere?
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This is how currywurst was invented

Currywurst is the classic Berlin street food. And the story of its creation is at least as good as the sausage itself.
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Man eating a döner

Germany: Döner ousts currywurst as fast-food favorite

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Grim-looking currywurst

Ex-chancellor bemoans VW currywurst loss

Gerhard Schröder complained that the dish was being removed from the menu at the Volkswagen plant in North Germany.
OffbeatAugust 11, 2021
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Result: The most popular food or dish in your country!

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LifestyleNovember 12, 2020
A serving of pork Schnitzel

Swine fever prompts fears of schnitzel shortage

A 50% collapse in Chinese pork production due to swine fever could prompt price rises for schnitzel in Europe.
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Streetfood Deutschland

The quirky evolution of German snack stall culture

In Germany, it was a long journey from the greasy currywurst — which appeared 70 years ago — to the vegan food truck.
CultureSeptember 4, 2019
Currywurst

Germany's evolving sidewalk snack scene

It was a long journey from currywurst to insect burger: In Germany, snack culture has changed drastically.
CultureSeptember 4, 20197 images
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CultureAugust 19, 201910 images
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Currywurst defends title as Germans' favorite lunch

Germans love a good sausage, particularly if it's covered in a reddish sauce and served with crinkly chips.
HealthMay 16, 2018
Berlin Currywurst

Berlin 24/7: What's the currywurst cult all about?

Even though the Day of the Currywurst is held on September 4, DW's columnist Gero Schliess thinks it's wildly overrated.
CultureSeptember 3, 2017
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The cult of the currywurst

Germans love their currywurst. Every year, 850 million are consumed across the country.
CultureJanuary 14, 2017
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Euromaxx-Lifestyle Europe

A Swiss light festival, Germany's cult currywurst, and Iceland in winter.
CultureJanuary 14, 2017
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The cult of the currywurst

Germans love their currywurst. Every year, 850 million are consumed across the country.
CultureJanuary 14, 201704:03 min
A currywurst doused in ketchup and seasoned with curry powder, with a side of French fries.

A taste of VW's hottest product

Volkswagen's best-seller is not a car. But it's just as German. And it tastes better, too.
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German wurst in London

Herman ze German's sausage is in such demand, they've opened their third shop. What's their secret?
LifestyleJanuary 25, 201504:50 min

Legendary sausage

What makes the German currywurst so tasty?
CultureNovember 28, 201404:06 min
Darryl Coe in Berlin

Berlin with a Tourist from the US

Darryl Coe has brought his barrel organ from California to Berlin. Before playing it on Kurfürstendamm, he enjoys a Currywurst.
CultureJuly 26, 201405:32 min
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German sausages in London

Currywurst and Co. are finding fans - and not only among German expats.
LifestyleApril 23, 201405:03 min
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Guten Appetit, Germany!

People come to Germany just to try it. But is the currywurst all it's cracked up to be?
LifestyleNovember 19, 201304:24 min
Sauerbraten with potato and red cabbage

'The German Cookbook'

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April 3, 2013
A curried sausage and a bread roll

From stocks to sausages

Hungry bankers in Frankfurt's financial center are served lunch by one of their own.
August 22, 2011
Scene in Berlin

The currywurst

It's definitely not a sausage. It's a phenomenon. And Berliners actually dedicated a museum to it.
March 11, 2011
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The Currywurst Queen in Hamburg

The currywurst is a sausage that is served with a ketchup and curry sauce. According to the Gault Millau guide the best place to enjoy one is in Hamburg, home to the Queen of the currywurst!
LifestyleFebruary 17, 201103:58 min
Scene in Berlin

Scene in Berlin

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December 3, 2010
A currywurst

Meat feast

A restaurant in Hamburg is taking the currywurst to places other sausages can't reach.
December 15, 2009
Illustration of the Brandenburg Gate

Berlin's favorite snack

Waltraud Ziervogel's currywurst stand is a Berlin institution; even famous politicos snack there.
November 18, 2009
Currywurst

Wurst is best

The Currywurst, a German institution, finally has its own musuem which opens Saturday in Berlin.
August 15, 2009
A life-sized currywurst mascot leans against a wall

Wurst museum

Germany gets its first currywurst museum to celebrate the history of the iconic sausage.
August 13, 2009
French fries and ketchup

Organic Oxymoron

Can fast food also be organic? A French fry shop owner in Munich is convinced that it can.
June 16, 2008
Close up of a curry wurst smothered in curry powder and tomato sauce

Sausage Protectors

Berlin butchers have joined together to protect what they say is the home of the currywurst.
November 20, 2007

The Triumphant Return of the Currywurst

Legal wrangling had banished Berlin's culinary trademark, the currywurst, from the Brandenburg Gate area. But the sausage has returned, delighting tastebuds and expanding waistlines in the city center again.
June 21, 2005

Bringing the Burrito to Berlin

Berlin may be famous for its currywurst and döner kebab, but those old fast food standards might soon give way for snacking California-style, as two entrepreneurs aim to show Germany what burritos are all about.
February 25, 2005

Don't Touch the Currywurst

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August 10, 2004

Germany Offers Newcomers "How To" Book

The German government has released a handbook for immigrants aimed to serve as a guide through the labyrinth of German ways. It covers everything from navigating bureaucracy to separating your trash to garden gnomes.
February 27, 2004

Battered, Fried, Flipped: The Cultural Legacy of Junk Food

As the modern world continues its saucy and long-standing love affair with fast food, a Berlin museum has whipped together a feast of alimentary icons in an exhibition which explores the social phenomenon of junk food.
September 23, 2003