(12 Jun 2024)
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Berlin, Germany – 25 May 2024
1. Curry sauce being poured onto sausage slices
2. Employee of snack bar Konnopke’s prepares currywurst
3. Curry powder being sprinkled
4. Close of piece of currywurst
5. Queue at snack bar Konnopke’s
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Linda Konnopke, owner of snack bar Konnopke’s:
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“Currywurst is probably the most popular fast food in Berlin and our city is all about currywurst. You can’t compare our currywurst with any other product that you know as a sausage because the whole flavour and the whole composition speak for themselves and are unique. The sauce or curry ketchup is what gives the Currywurst its intense flavour.”
7. Currywurst on plate
8. Customers eating Currywurst
9. Currywurst
10. Olympiastadion Berlin with soccer fans
11. Currywurst at a snackbar
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Theo Süs, soccer fan:
“Anyone who comes here and eats a currywurst will never forget the European Championship.”
13. Man feeds currywurst to another man
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Luisa Albert, soccer fan:
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“Currywurst is the best thing you can eat before a game. It gives you the strength to cheer and do everything.”
15. Snack bar at the Olympiastadion
16. Close up Currywurst with fries
17. SOUNDBITE (German) Linda Konnopke, owner of snack bar Konnopke’s:
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“If you come to Berlin, you definitely have to try a Currywurst to know what the city is all about.”
18. Currywurst with fries
STORYLINE:
Usually presented on a pristine white cardboard platter with a two-pronged plastic fork, the currywurst promises to be among the most tantalizing gourmet treats on offer at the European Championship this summer.
The pork sausage garnished with curry sauce can be served with skin or without, a choice that visiting fans will need to make before they become currywurst aficionados over the course of the month-long soccer tournament in Germany.
The currywurst is considered a fast-food delicacy in a country where the humble sausage enjoys great importance.
“Everything has an end, only a sausage has two,” is an oft-repeated line after a breakup, and a song with the same name was a hit for Stephan Remmler in the 1980s.
At lunchtime every day in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, a fast-moving line queues for currywurst with fries at Konnopke’s Imbiß, a fast-food joint under the tracks at the Eberswalder Straße U-Bahn station.
Founders Max and Charlotte Konnopke first began selling sausages from their portable grill in 1930, and the family-run business has since become an institution famous for its currywurst, which Günter Konnopke introduced to East Berlin in 1960.
It was an immediate hit. The recipe is still a closely guarded family secret.
“You can’t compare our currywurst with any other product that you know as a sausage because the whole flavour and the whole composition speak for themselves and are unique,” said Linda Konnopke, who is Max and Charlotte’s great-granddaughter.
The currywurst is usually sliced into convenient bite-sized portions.
It can be doused in ketchup and sprinkled with curry powder, but some vendors – like Konnopke’s – will use their own specific curry sauce.
A woman named Herta Heuwer is largely credited with its invention. Heuwer was one of thousands of Berlin’s “Trümmerfrauen” (rubble women) who helped cleared the wreckage left after World War II, and afterward she ran her own fast-food business in the borough of Charlottenburg in the west of the city.
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