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It’s all about the Wurst – The Currywurst Museum in Berlin
31There are more museums in Berlin than days of rain. True story. And in one museum it’s all about the Wurst. Wurst is the German word for sausage, and well, I think we’re quite known for our love for sausages. Every year we eat about 800 millions. Yes, MILLIONS, and that’s just the number for ONE kind of sausage. The best. The holy one. The Currywurst. The Wurst with an own museum. The Currywurst museum.
Currywurst with three different kind of the legendary sauce
The Currywurst Museum in Berlin
Just around the corner of the famous Checkpoint Charlie and Friedrichstraße you’ll find the German Currywust Museum. Since 2009 you can find here everything you need to know about the Currywurst. Where to eat, what’s the secret and even the history of fast food.
The first fast food? Invented in 3600 BC. Popcorn.
Who invented the Currywurst?
Currywurst belongs to Berlin like pizza to Italy. Some may say it was invented in Hamburg. But that’s not true. Believe me. Herta Heuwer invented the Currywurst in 1949 in… BERLIN. Actually it was a day at her food booth when no one wanted to buy a Wurst. And she had ketchup, curry powder and sausages. She played around a little bit and accidentally invented the Currywurst. The rest is history and in 1959 she applied her “Chillup” sauce for a patent.
Herta Heuwer – the mother of the Currywurst
The Currywurst Museum is a museum where you can really touch things, play, smell and for sure taste things. Because every visitor gets a Currywurst for free! And if you need a break – why not chill a bit on the couch? The WURST couch. Yes, here it’s all about the Wurst.
Relax on a sausage couch!
Wurst confession: I really enjoyed writing this post in German more than in English. Because in German we have a lot sayings about the Wurst. And none of them works in English. BUT. I think at least you should know some of them.
My favorite German sayings about the Wurst:
- Jetzt geht’s um die Wurst – Now it’s about the sausage (It’s crunch-time)
- Das ist mir Wurst – That’s sausage for me (I don’t care)
- herumwursteln – sausaging around (to mess about)
- Extrawurst – extra sausage (special treatment)
- Spiel nicht die beleidigte Leberwurst – Don’t play the sore liver sausage (Don’t be a sorehead)
- armes Würstchen – poor little sausage (douchebag)
- Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei – Everything has an end just the sausage has two
Doppelwurstgut!
Schöne Grüße von QWoo, dem Maskottchen des Deutschen Currywurst Museums Berlin
That sofa is amazing!
Wow…if I am even in Berlin, I will visit here now if only for a photo opportunity on that awesome sofa! Thanks!
haha. yes, this sofa is amazing.
Ahahaha! This is awesome! I love the couch!
Had our first currywurst this year in Hamburg…LOVED IT. Almost as much as I love that couch!
If you loved the Currywurst in Hamburg you’ll totally fall for the one in Berlin!
I did not know currywurst was *this* important. I always love learning new things though! And I am so glad you included the German phrases at the end. I think that really makes the post.
what a sofa!!!! but they forgot to put a yellow or red blanket for the sauce
nevertheless currywurst is really great and I liked your post
Haha, THX and yes, a red blanket with yellow dots would be awesome!
We like your idea with the blanket. Great!
Btw. How can we comment with our own avatar pic?
Yeah, Rätsel ums Currywurst Museum gelöst!
Sausage couch looks incredible!
That’s wild! Wish we got to eat more of this stuff – yum!
Wow, now that’s love right there! This is so cool.
Ha ha we must have missed this one, it looks brilliant though and that couch..
I absolutely love the German sausage phrases at the end! Thanks for a great afternoon
What an interesting musuem! that couch is unreal- haha!
I think I would feel weird sitting on a couch shaped like a sausage…..
HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS MUSEUM??? Not a single person told me about it and I didn’t see it when I was near Check Point Charlie!
Now I definitely have to come back! haha
However that couch kind of looks like something else….
Yvonne, did you see the *DRINKABLE* currywurst? Oh yes, there’s a sample when I was last in the Currywurst Museum …
Thanks for your post, Yvonne, and all good things Wurst!
I would love to own my own sausage couch, but I think I would end up being perpetually hungry… guess I’ll just have to visit the museum and sit on theirs. =)
@Dayna – Looking forward to your visit!
@Henry – Do you mean http://dinnerinabottle.com/currywurst-deluxe
Happy new year!
That couch is hot!! And spicy!!!
Yeah, coole Wurst! Da bekommt man unglaublich Appetit auf Berlin, – sabber!
@martin Auf nach Berlin, wenn der Zahn tropft!
I would like a sausage couch.
“Everything has an end, just the sausage has two.”
Stunningly beautiful sentiment.
Ich würde sagen die Currywurst kommt weder aus Hamburg noch aus Berlin sondern aus dem Ruhrgebiet denn hier gibt es die einzig wahre und leckere Currywurst die auch mit einer echten Rostbratwurst gemacht wird! Ich habe noch nie eine Bessere gegessen!!!!