Volkswagen currywurst

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Volkswagen currywurst

The Volkswagen currywurst ("Currybockwurst" as it is called) is a food product from the Volkswagen AG automotive group .

composition

VW currywurst in two variants with the accompanying ketchup in a supermarket.
1973: VW currywurst is produced in VW's own slaughterhouse at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg .

The sausage is a sausage hot smoked , pre-cooked boiled sausage . It is made from pork using pork cheek , pork belly and bacon . The raw sausage mixture is mixed with table salt , curry powder and other spices. The typical reddening is caused by the preservation with curing salt , which contains sodium nitrite . The sausages are portioned in peeled casings, which must be removed before preparation. During the production of meat protein, the skin creates a skin that has gut-like cooking properties. Originally, the sausage was portioned at a length of 25 cm to 170 grams. Upon customer request, smaller sausages of 85 grams and 12.5 cm are also offered. Unlike other curry sausages, the sausage is not served with curry sauce or a tomato sauce with curry powder, but typically with a spice ketchup according to Develey 's own recipe .

history

The Volkswagen factory was built in 1937/1938 in the rural and sparsely populated area near Wolfsburg Castle near the then city of Fallersleben and the estate there. The plant created its own infrastructure. After 1945, the future of the factory, which was mainly used as an armaments factory, was initially uncertain. Dismantling was avoided and civil production started. The time of in-house food production at Volkswagen began early, and the plant also had its own farms. In the 1950s, butchers employed by Volkswagen produced various types of sausage for the employees. The Volkswagen currywurst has been produced since 1973. At that time, Volkswagen was still producing the meat it needed in pork fattening for the sausage itself. The Berlin Currywurst Museum presents the Wolfsburg variant in a video and in a showcase.

Until summer 2018, the ketchup was produced by Kraft , since then with an increased tomato paste content and a reduced sugar content by Develey .

distribution

The sausage is primarily sold in the factory canteens; it is offered to VW employees in Wolfsburg from 8 a.m. At the beginning of 1973, no further sales channels for Volkswagen currywurst were considered. On the press and trade visitor days of the IAA , VW will be offering guests the Volkswagen currywurst at its stand. This sausage is offered in the VfL Wolfsburg football stadium in a shortened version of 16 cm in length.

The Group sells Volkswagen currywurst nationally and internationally in eleven countries ( Template: future / in 5 yearsas of 2016) through retailers . Since the sausage is an officially declared original part , every licensed VW dealer can order the sausage via the VW ordering system (part number 199 398 500 A). In addition to the product made from pork, the Volkswagen currywurst is sometimes made from poultry, and there is also a purely vegetarian variant. The curry ketchup is available in the same way under part number 199 398 500 B.

In 2015, 7.2 million Volkswagen curry sausages were sold, around one million more than in the previous year. Thus, the number of sausages sold exceeds that of the vehicle units of the core brand VW of 5.82 million vehicles in the same period. The sausage mass sold in 2015 was around 850 tons. In the same period 600 tons of spice ketchup were added.

Web links

Commons : VW-Currywurst  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. This is about the sausage ( Memento from September 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Volkswagen magazine, January 2014.
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