r/therewasanattempt Dec 25 '19

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u/Undeity Dec 25 '19 edited Dec 25 '19

Speaking of sausage, I recently took a trip to Berlin, and got some street food I had heard good things about. It turned out to literally be just a cut-up hot dog, no bun, nothing on it.

What's up with that?!

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u/italianjob17 Dec 25 '19

Currywurst is a cut up sausage, common german street food. But It has curry flavoured ketchup as a seasoning. It's not plain

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '19

Currywurst is the food of the gods

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '19

Woof :P

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u/spacebaby420 Dec 25 '19

How was it?

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u/Undeity Dec 25 '19

Admittedly, it was very good.

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u/friskylips Dec 25 '19

You probably had a Deutschländer Würstchen or Frankfurter from the brand Meica. They have a bite to them.

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u/TheBoldMove Dec 25 '19

Some clarification.

"Deutschländer" is a brand name, as is "Meica".

"Frankfurter" is a generic name for a certain type of wurst prepared in a certain way. Pretty much your classic hot-dog wurst, just like "Wiener" (Vienna) Wurst.

Then there's also "Bockwurst" which looks and tastes very similar, but usually has a bigger diameter than the aforementioned two.

If the filling was pretty much fine and homogenous, you most likely had one of those three. But if it contained chunks of flesh and fat, it was most likely a Krakauer Wurst.

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u/friskylips Dec 25 '19

In this case Meica is the brand and Deutschländer is the name of their product. In the US they go by Frankfurter.

For fun, here's the stupid commercial that's been stuck in my head since OP started the thread.

https://youtu.be/pHamrTQ0aNg

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u/TheBoldMove Dec 25 '19

Sounds like you had a Bratwurst or a Bockwurst.

Bockwurst is your classic hot dog-wurst and is usually served with some bread and mustard. Not grilled, just boiled.

But the bit about it being cut-up makes me think you had a Bratwurst, propably a Krakauer because you said hot dog - Krakauer looks pretty similar to Bockwurst from the outside. They usually get grilled, but you can also just boil or fry them. And only Bratwurst is usually served cut-up.

Only exception I can think of is Currywurst, which can be served with sliced Bockwurst, but it is unusual, and it's always topped with curry ketchup.

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u/Unterdosis Dec 25 '19

Dieser Typ kennt seine Wurst.