It may be a surprise to some of you to discover that curried sausages, otherwise known as currywurst, is one of the most popular snacks in Berlin, Germany.
Germany is well known for its love of sausages so adding a curry sauce to make a tasty snack seems to be a natural thing to do.
Berliners love the snack so much that they eat over 70 million servings in a year.
The snack was invented in 1949 by a German housewife called Herta Charlotte Heuwer. Herta’s invention is so well loved that a memorial plaque is at the corner of Kant and Kaiser Friedrich Streets (in Berlin) to commemorate the place where Herta first made the popular snack.
Today there are in excess of 200 currywurst stands and stores in Berlin where you can buy this hot and spicy sausage. Like all good fast foods, it is cheap, quick to make and tasty.
We don’t have a recipe for currywurst on the Curry Focus website yet – if you have a recipe then give us the details using the Add Recipe page and we’ll publish it for everyone to enjoy.
So next time you visit Berlin, or Germany, be sure to look out for currywurst and try it and see what all the fuss is about.