1,500 Types of Sausage 1 Scalded - put into boiling water and heat~ to taste - a range which includes Frankfurter and Wiener. The latter takes its name from a Wurst citizen of Berlin, who had nothing to do with Austria's capital. The sausage his inventive mind Did you know that strict German laws affecting thought up is rather like a Frankfurter. trade descriptions allow only Frankfurters fr0m WeiBwurst, another sea lded sausage, comes Frankfurt to be called Frankfurter? That in fr0m Munich, and is fat and greyish-white !n Germany a Hamburger is a citizen of Hamburg, ool0ur. Bockwurst is found almost everywhere, not a piece of minced beef - which in Germany and is recognisable by its short, fat sha@e. is called a Deutsches Beefsteak? That the Ger­ Bratwurst, originally a product of Ni.irnberg, is mans eat much more pork than any other now popular throughout Germany. When grilled meat? Orthat some Germans find the idea over an open fire it is called Rostbratwurst. 0f eating lamb somewhat distasteful? 2 Boiled (eaten cold): the two best-known Buying meat is no problem in Germany; in fact boiled varieties are Leberwurst (liver sausage), a meat can even be bought at an inn. Many older soft sausage easy to spread on bread, and inns, especially •in the soutli, have their own Blutwurst (something like black pudding) butcher's shop in one part of the building, which is often heavily spiced. which is then called a Gasthaus-Metzgerei. 3 Smoked: smoked sausages are mostly lean It is Wurst - the huge range of German cold and rather dry, with good keeping qu.i lities. meats - that presents· the most bewildering The German varieties include Sal .. mi, so metimes choice. There are three types of Wurst: containing garlic, and Mettw urst, a relat ively cheap sausage made ot spiced, minc&d meat containing large white lumps of fa t . Wurst is one German food export that can be Wurst easily san-,pfed in this country: it is sold in most good d elicatessens a nd supermarkets. Bierwurst beer sausage All smoked sausages come u nder the name Blutwurst blood sausage Dauerwurst, from dauern - to last. Currywurst highly seasoned pork sausage Mettwurst spicy, semisoft sausage for spreading on Naturally, Germans do not like their bread bread pla in - and here is where the sausages Schlackwurst a fatty pork sausage, come into play. There are more than 1,500 cervelat di_fferent kinds of German sausage - raw, Wei8wurst white sausage boiled, and smoked, seasoned in all sorts Zervelatwurst salamilike sausage, cervelat of ways, shaped in all kinds of forms. Zungenwurst tongue sausage .