{"id":3370,"date":"2011-12-21T01:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T00:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/2011\/12\/its-all-about-the-wurst-the-currywurst-museum-in-berlin\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T19:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:14:51","slug":"currywurst-museum-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/currywurst-museum-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about the Wurst &#8211; The Currywurst Museum in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are more museums in Berlin than days of rain. True story. And in one museum, it\u2019s all about the Wurst. Wurst is the German word for sausage, and I think we\u2019re pretty well known for our love for sausages. Every year, we eat about 800 million. Yes, MILLIONS, and that\u2019s just the number for ONE kind of sausage. The best. The holy one. The&nbsp;<strong>Currywurst<\/strong>. The Wurst has its museum.&nbsp;<strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitberlin.de\/en\/deutsches-currywurst-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Currywurst museum<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/currywurst.jpg\" alt=\"3 different types of Currywurst with two beers on a tray at the Currywurst Museum\" class=\"wp-image-1009\" title=\"Currywurst\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Currywurst with three different kind of the legendary sauce<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Currywurst Museum in Berlin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Just around the corner from the famous Checkpoint Charlie and Friedrichstra\u00dfe, you\u2019ll find the\u00a0<strong>German Currywurst Museum<\/strong>. Since 2009, you can find everything you need to know about the Currywurst here. Where to eat, what\u2019s the secret, and even the history of fast food. <strong>Unfortunately, the museum is now permanently closed.<\/strong> There are plenty of other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/top-ten-things-to-do-in-berlin\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"272\">things to do in Berlin<\/a> like see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/best-view-to-do-in-berlin-tv-tower\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3368\">Berlin TV Tower!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ancientpopcorn.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of popcorn in the Currywurst Museum invented in 3600 BC\" class=\"wp-image-1011\" title=\"ancient popcorn\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ancientpopcorn.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ancientpopcorn-252x167.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>The first fast food? Invented in 3600 BC. Popcorn.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/c108.travelpayouts.com\/content?trs=284745&#038;shmarker=504977.Steff&#038;place=berlin&#038;items=8&#038;locale=en-US&#038;powered_by=true&#038;promo_id=4039\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who invented the Currywurst?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Currywurst belongs to Berlin, like pizza to Italy.\u00a0<strong>Herta Heuwer invented the Currywurst in 1949 in BERLIN<\/strong>. It was a day at her food booth when no one wanted to buy a Wurst. 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 \u201cChillup\u201d sauce for a patent.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hertaheuwer.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Herty Heuwer smiling in a museum\" class=\"wp-image-1012\" title=\"herta heuwer\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hertaheuwer.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hertaheuwer-252x167.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Herta Heuwer &#8211; the mother of the Currywurst<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Currywurst Museum<\/strong>&nbsp;is where you can touch, play, smell, and taste things because every visitor gets a&nbsp;<strong>Currywurst for free<\/strong>! And if you need a break \u2013 why not chill on the couch? The WURST couch. Yes, here it\u2019s all about the Wurst.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/currywurstcouch.jpg\" alt=\"Sausage shaped couch in the Currywurst Museum in Berlin with Red carpet\" class=\"wp-image-1015\" title=\"currywurst couch\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Relax on a sausage couch!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Wurst confession:<\/em><\/strong> In German, we have a lot of sayings about the Wurst. And they need to work in English. BUT. You should know some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My favorite German sayings about the Wurst:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Jetzt geht&#8217;s um die Wurst &#8211; Now it&#8217;s about the sausage (It&#8217;s crunch-time)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Das ist mir Wurst &#8211; That&#8217;s sausage for me (I don&#8217;t care)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>herumwursteln &#8211; sausaging around (to mess about)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Extrawurst &#8211; extra sausage (special treatment)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Spiel nicht die beleidigte Leberwurst &#8211; Don&#8217;t play the sore liver sausage (Don&#8217;t be a sorehead)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>armes W\u00fcrstchen &#8211; poor little sausage (douchebag)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei &#8211; Everything has an end just the sausage has two<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/tp.media\/content?trs=284745&#038;start_date=2024-02-07&#038;country=DE&#038;city=Berlin&#038;powered_by=true&#038;min_lines=5&#038;promo_id=5431&#038;shmarker=504977&#038;campaign_id=183\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more museums in Berlin than days of rain. True story. And in one museum, it\u2019s all about the Wurst. Wurst is the German word for sausage, and I think we\u2019re pretty well known for our love for sausages. Every year, we eat about 800 million. Yes, MILLIONS, and that\u2019s just the number for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577,601,563,562],"tags":[670],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-berlin-en","category-europe","category-germany","category-travelous-around-the-world","tag-berlin-en-de"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16553,"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/16553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justtravelous.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}