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The WURST Sausages in Germany - What to Eat in Germany
Aug 25, 2025
Wurst or sausage is a must eat in Germany, but there are so many sausages how do you choose which sausage to grab? Well we give you a run down of some of the most popular sausages in Germany. Filmed in Bamberg, Germany #sausage #visitgermany #germansausage Wolters World for Food! Our videos focus on helping travelers know what to eat when they travel, the traditional food that you always want to eat when you travel. Copyright Mark Wolters 2024 Our Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Wolters World on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/woltersworld Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Walter's World and today I want to talk about the
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worst video in Germany. No, not the worst, the first sausages. Because honestly when you come
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to Germany you have so many sausages you can choose from, it's insane. All right so I want to talk
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about some of the common sausages you'll probably see when you're here and the most important one
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The one you'll see all over the country, the one that the guys are like at the train stations holding
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up the kits like selling sausages for is the Turinger Roast Bratwurst. The Turinger Roast Bratwurst
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This is the quintessential bratwurst. Like this is your on-the-go snack you want to have when you
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do come here to Germany because it is so good. And when you think of German bratwurst, that is the
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bratwurst you think of. So that's number one. And the thing is if you're coming here at Christmas
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time or when there are festivals, sometimes they have the Halmeter Bratwurst or the
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half neater bratwurst you can have. And oh my god, it is so good. So you have that. Now
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when you come and you look online for German sausages, you know, the last 10, 20 years
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one thing is like really come up in popularity, and that's currywurst or curry sausage. Now
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when you think of curry sausage, you think, oh, there's curry in the sausage? No. What it is
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it's just a bratwurst that's cut up, and then they put curry ketchup on top of it
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and then you eat it. It's from Berlin originally, but now you can literally get it at almost every
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single sausage stand throughout the country, but it is really, really good. And the thing that's
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funny is it's so popular, but it has curry ketchup because most of the time when you get bratwurst
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and sausages here in Germany, you always have Zenf mustard with it. It might be a normal mustard
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Zenf or it might be a spicy Zenf or it might be a Zuse Zenf, a sweet mustard. It just depends on
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the kind of sausage you have. And so I'm here in Bamberg and Bavaria, Frank, and a
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popular sausage down here is Weisswurst. So Weisswurst is a white sausage, okay
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And when you have it, traditionally speaking, you're supposed to have it before noon Because back in the day the casing wouldn survive so you had to eat it early in the morning And so or at least before noon now you can get it any time of the day it come in a hot boiling like a hot water there where they cooked it in or it least keeping it warm you going to take it out you going to have it and you going to
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use a fork and knife to eat it and you're going to have it with the sweet mustard the zeus and oh my
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god it's so good here in bomba there's a place that sells it only till 11 30 and you get the white
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sausage with a pretzel and the sweet mustard with a smoked beer with it uh yes please a Dankeschön
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And that Weissfurst is made with a combination of veal and pork. And most of these, you know, all these bratwurst, these sausages we talk about
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most of them are pork-based, but there might be some veal or other meat in there. And the spices they put in it really gives it a different flavor
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And what's interesting is when you look at the different sausages, when you go to some of these sausage stands, you can see the difference when you're there
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So, for example, if you're going to be here in Bamberg, and that's one thing, there's a lot of regional sausages, okay
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If you're here in Bamberg, they have the Bamberg at Badfest. And what it is, if you look at a normal sausage, it's actually thinner
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It's like a bratwurst went on a diet and got thinner. Right? So you're like, oh, it's like a diet bratwurst
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Well, not really, because you usually eat two in your bun instead of one when you have it
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But bombed egg at bratwursts are very good. If you're over in Regensburg, the Regensburger bratwursts, I mean, literally, you can go to where there's a bridge where they've been selling bratwursts for like 1,000, 2,000 years and go there
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And the Regensburger is smoked and boiled before they grill it for you. And it's so good
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And there's so many different things out there. I mean, if you think about sausages back home, you think, oh, what about those Frankfurters, my hot dogs back home
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What do they have? Well, those are called Frankfurters. Or you might see them called Wiener for Vienna sausages
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That's your kind of like traditional like hot dog kind of thing
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You can do that and you might get it with a roll. You might get it shoved in a bun
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Or sometimes you just have it with a piece of bread, okay, with mustard. So the Frankfurter or the Wiener sausage, more like your traditional like hot dog back in the U.S
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you think of it that way. But if you see one that looks like a hot dog, but it's totally fat as all
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can be that called a bakfus And bakfus is my you know gruta And bakfus is ektagos It like really really big And you get that and they pull it out You like whoa how am I supposed to eat that You find a way Don worry And it come you have your mustard on the side and your little piece of bread or your roll with it and you will just love it Okay Now my dad
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favorite sausage to have here when he's in Germany is actually called a krakawa or a Polish sausage
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If you've ever had a Polish sausage, you know, it's got that spicy flavoring to it. Yeah. You
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get that a lot of places throughout Germany. Like, wait, krakawa, doesn't that mean someone
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from Krakow? Yeah, it's a Polish sausage, so Krakowa. Now one that I enjoy, which you don't see
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everywhere in Germany, you see this more in Austria to be honest, is what's called a Kasekraine
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A cheese, it's basically a cheese bratwurst. It's a bratwurst that's infused with the cheese and when
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you snap into it, oh that cheese explodes and melts the inside of your mouth, but you don't care
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because it tastes so good. And that's one thing you can tell. If you get a good versed, a good
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sausage here it snaps. Like you bite into it it pops it snaps in your mouth. You're like oh
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that's a good one. Now another one you'll see pop up sometimes is called a metfust which is basically
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beef and pork mixed together. It definitely has a different look like you'll see like wait why does
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that one look different? Because that's metfust. And the thing is you might notice different
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different colorings and flavors like here in Bamberg they have a blauer zippe which is a
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bluish sausage which you're like dude that looks blue. I don't know if I should eat that
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you can when you're here and it just really reinforces just how regional the sausages are
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when you come here. So it's like the beer. Have the regional beer, have the regional sausage. Yes
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there's some great ones you get all over the country, but go for the regional ones to really
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enjoy the worst experience. Now another one you might enjoy is the Kohlbergerbrat. And the Kohlbergerbrat
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it's actually about it's more than 15% veal, so it has a different flavor to it
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I actually like that one quite a bit, so that could be a go-to for when you're here. Though you
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But you don't see it as often as you used to. So that's why sometimes I'd like to experiment when I'm going around and I'm like, oh, I
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haven't heard this one before. I'm going to try that. I'm going to try this to see which ones you really like
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Like, you know, but you can never go wrong with the Tony and Rose Buffalo
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I mean, there's a reason why that's the number one around the country because it's just saying it's just so good
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And also you know when you think of sausages you think of the traditional like casing kind of sausage and there are other kinds of like sausagey kind of things you see at the sausage stand
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One you might see a buletten or a bulette which is basically think of a pork hamburger
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that might be something you have. There's also schwein steak which is a pork steak that might
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show up with those things as well so you could do that. But I think one you need to know about
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is a lebekäse. And lebekäse is... think about the inside of a sausage as a pate and put that on your
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bread. You might be able to eat that. I mean it's not as bad as it sounds. When I talk about lebekäse
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what I really think about is actually lebewurst. And you think, oh it's wurst, so it should be a
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sausage. Well no, lebewurst looks like German... I'd call it German meatloaf, okay? So it has the pork
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and the other mixing is kind of pureed together, then it's formed into a loaf, and they cut you off
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a loaf. Like, you cut off a slice of bread, you cut off a loaf, you cut off a slice of laborwurst
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you put it on a piece of bread, it can be cold or hot, I recommend hot, and eat it that way
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you'll be good to go. And I think that's one thing that surprises people as well, is when you look at
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how you eat your sausages here, it's not just in a traditional, like, hot dog bun, like you think
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in the US. A lot of times it's just in a roll. And so you have a roll of the size of your hand
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but the bratwurst will come out to here and here. That's totally normal. And then you just line up
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that mustard along the tab and get it all over your face because that's what happens. And a lot
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of times you actually will put your own mustard on there. You can put ketchup on there, however
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I don't recommend it because it's really supposed to be with zenf, with mustard when you are here
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The thing is there's so many other sausages you can have when you're here. There's you get blutwurst, which is blood sausage, you know, like black pudding you have in England
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You can find that in places too, though not very common, but it is an option
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And that's one of those things is when you come here and you're looking for a truly German street eat
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a very German snack, you can't go wrong with a Wurst. So what is your favorite bratwurst or sausage to have here in Germany
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Please let them know in the comments below and if you have a good Wurst joke
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go ahead and put it down there too. I wish you all the best, I'll say, choose from here in Bombag, Germany
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