Lunch, Berlin-style

[metaphorge]

Lunch, Berlin-style, originally uploaded by metaphorge.

One of the odder things I encountered during my trip to Berlin last winter was the currywurst phenomenon:

"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-Imbisse, at diners or "greasy spoons," on children's menus in restaurants, or as a street food.

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."

It turns out that curry ketchup can be attained in Redwood City, so tyrsalvia and I had currywurst for lunch, which made us both rather nostalgic for quick lunches at the Hauptbahnhof. I see little chance that we'll be able to afford 24C3 this year, but I'm definitely going back for 25C3 in 2008.

The currywurst was, by the way, delicious.

Comments

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

I love currywurst!! mmm

[otherwise-nyc.livejournal.com]

As I started reading, I was about to ask if you were going to go to 24C3! I'm hoping to go; we'll see what they think of my proposal.

[mrfurious.livejournal.com]

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[tsuyokunaritai.livejournal.com]

damn that sounds awesome.

[girlpurple.livejournal.com]

Oh Droool... We loved having currywurst in the beer gardens in Munich. WANT

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

there are also curry baked beans in German supermarkets. Two words. Bad. And Wrong.

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

Next time we're headed over there we should bring you some of the curry ketchup. :)

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

That actually sounds tasty. Just bad execution?

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

What are you proposing presenting?

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

The curry, it spreads. I didn't run into it in Vienna, though admittedly we were visiting friends so were going to sit-down restaurants a lot more there.

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

It is. You should try it when/if you have the opportunity.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

nah, it's just that I'm a purist ;-) curry should be curry and beans should be beans.

[otherwise-nyc.livejournal.com]

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I'm doing lots of preliminary reading and brainstorming these days; I think it would be fun to present a first pass at the topic at 24C3 and get some more input. I'm hoping to do a lot of the research for this basically in public -- I'm somewhat ambivalent about academe's ability to Get Shit Right, and plan to do my part to say true things while having fun along the way.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

ooh, the curry ketchup. I encountered that in fast food restaurants in (West) Germany in 1991 or so and loved it so much. I haven't had it since and really, really miss it. Perhaps these days there's a local or internet distributer or I could sort out how to make it myself....

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

Email me your snail-mail and I'll send you some.

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

That is just awesome.

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

Oh, btw. my honey heard me say "currywurst!" out loud, came over to see, and once that craving starts, its irresistable. We bought sausage today at the Amish market.. he cooked up some roasted potatoes, the sausage, the sauce
Currywurst.. SOO GOOD.

[tsuyokunaritai.livejournal.com]

There's a German place downtown I've been meaning to try, I wonder if they have curry!

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

Wow. Really, if it's a hassle at all, don't bother, but I would be very grateful.

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