Ketwurst

The Ketwurst is arisen in the GDR snack dish.

To prepare a cooked sausage, similar to the sausage, fried or heated in a water bath. A special, elongated and soft bun is impaled on a hot metal cylinder to create a cavity and to heat the rolls. Then, the meat is put into a ketchup sauce and dipped into the rolls.

As the Grilletta - - the Ketwurst was invented. Employees of rationalization and research center restaurants in Berlin in 1977 or 1978 With their help, the numbers of visitors at Alexanderplatz, for the capacity of the surrounding restaurants was not enough, should be better supplied. Do it for the first time in 1979. Exhibition on the 3rd area of the masters of tomorrow their inventors received a "Recognition for Excellence [ ... ] for the exhibit supply chain solution sausage ".

The term Ketwurst is a word-formation out of ketchup and sausages. The frequently encountered notation Kettwurst is wrong, as is the declaration to that effect, her name was so because the sausages would be delivered in chains to the food stalls.

Ketwurst Grilletta and are now often seen as typical products of the GDR snack culture. Their distribution was largely confined to the city center of East Berlin. In other cities, they were only available in exceptional cases. In Neubrandenburg there was at the House of Culture and Education until October 2011, a fixed Ketwurst stand.