Wurst - Sausages! by sarahandgareth
Even though Berlin?s a cosmopolitan city, something that?s reflected in its many Turkish and Asian fast food options, there is still no shortage of stalls and small shops selling that old German staple, the venerable Wurst. The variety of sausages on offer in even the most humble of shops can be quite bewildering. Still, the true Berlin Wurst is the Currywurst ? so much so that when sales appeared to be in decline a couple of years ago, there were newspaper articles lamenting the problem.A Currywurst is better known to the rest of the world as a Bratwurst, cut up in sections, and smothered in ketchup and curry powder (though not every place serves it with ketchup), and usually accompanied with a bread roll (Schrippe or Broetchen). It sounds like it could kill you, but it?s delicious.
Some of the other common sausages are the Bratwurst itself, eaten with mustard (Senf); Bockwurst, which looks like a big frankfurter and is smoked; Knock- or Knackwurst, which is short and stubby, has lots of garlic and often comes with Sauerkraut; and Weisswurst, which is white in appearance (it looks raw even when cooked) and which is a specialty of Munich, especially at Oktoberfest time.
