Check Out Berlin’s Currywurst Museum

Currywurst and Fries © toolmantim

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From drunk food to a city’s treasured dish, follow the rise of Berlin’s currywurst at a museum dedicated to the delicacy and its fans. The Deutsches Currywurst Museum explores the history and legend behind the unique German sausage.

The museum has multiple interactive exhibits including spice sniffing stations and a curry personality quiz. A highlight however has to the opportunity to get your photo taken behind the counter of a mock currywurst snack stall. The best Berlin souvenir you never realized you needed.

Check out the Deutsches Currywurst Museum website for more info.

  1. Currywurst was invented by Herta Heuwer in Berlin in 1949 as an affordable but filling meal for the people of Berlin at a time when food was in short supply.

    When you order your Currywurst you can ask for it skin on “Currywurst mit Darm” or without skin “Currywurst ohne Darm”. Sausage casings were in short supply in the Soviet-controlled side of the city. If you grew up in East Berlin, you like sausage without skin; if you grew up in West Berlin, you probably prefer sausage with skin.

    I’m not from Berlin, I prefer Currywurst without skin and in my opinion the best place to get it is from Fritz & Co (a Currywurst stall) on Wittenberg Platz in the Schöneberg area of Berlin.

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