Weck, Worscht and Woi
Weck, Worscht un Woi (bread rolls, sausage and wine), often shortened to WWW in a familiar conversation , is a meal that is widespread in the wine-growing regions of Pfalz , Rheinhessen , Hessische Bergstrasse and Rheingau , where the sausage is almost always enjoyed cold. The dialect expression comes from the Rhine-Franconian dialects and is used almost identically in the regions listed. A small exception is the southern Palatinate , where it means “Weck, Worscht (sometimes also Wurschd) un Wei ”.
Ingredients and occasions
The wake is often referred to as a so - called Paarweck (double roll ), in the Palatinate sometimes also the Weinknorzen , a vigorously baked roll made from finely ground rye flour. On the wake comes the Worscht (sausage, here meat sausage ). In addition, the Woi ( wine ) of the respective growing region is drunk.
Sausages and rolls are usually eaten straight from hand to mouth without cutlery . Only a knife to remove the skin and cut the sausage and a corkscrew to open the wine bottle , if it is corked, are common.
The dish is a traditional snack during the grape harvest or other work in the vineyard . Because of its simplicity and easy portability, it also counts on the go, e.g. B. in the carnival season , at the popular meals.
Customs and symbolism
Kirchweih and Mardi Gras
At the so-called " Kerwe trees " include Weck, Worscht un Woi in the form of suspended rolls, sausage rings and wine bottles to the usual trappings of the respective festivities.
A traditional train number on the Mainz Rose Monday procession is represented by the foot troops of the Weck, Worscht and Woi carriers of the MCV . For this purpose, a kind of standard was created from the individual components , which - also alluding to the past of Mainz - is similar to that of the Roman era .
Weck, Worscht and Woi are, besides the carnival medal of the respective association, the only reward for the contribution made at the Mainz Saalfastnacht .
The synonym WWW is located on the Mainz Carnival Fountain, which was inaugurated in 1967 on Schillerplatz, in different places in the fountain.
In 1994, in the Mainzer Schillerstraße opposite the Proviant-Magazin and the Schoppenstecher statue , the carnival association Die Woi-Nase “reserved” a permanent place for the Rose Monday procession with a stone embedded in the ground. The rhyming inscription in High German with some Mainz dialect elements surrounds the central relief of a Till Eulenspiegel above a pretzel coat of arms and reads:
- Just leave the space here for
the Rose Monday procession.
At barrel night we are there
with bottles and jugs
and wool with weck and the like. Worscht and Woi
fidel and really foolish soi.
Ergo bibamus The Woi nose. K94
watch TV
The SWR television can in Shrovetide entitled Weck, Worscht un Woi past carnival events ( Rose Monday parades and meetings ) to reminisce.
Literary studies
The term “Weck, Worscht un Woi” is used in the figurative sense in literary studies to characterize a certain type of (undemanding) dialect literature . What is meant is literature that does not make any major intellectual demands and is content, so to speak, with mere physical satiety (for more details, see e.g. Palatinate dialects ).
literature
- Uwe Herrmann: WWW. The adventures of Weck, Worscht & Woi . The guide to the Palatinate way of life. HMV, Höma-Verlag, Offenbach / Queich 2012, ISBN 978-3-937329-54-3 (with caricatures by Uwe Herrmann).
See also
Other snacks can be found, for example, under cold cuisine , Spundekäs , Handkäs with music and Palatinate Saumagen .
References and comments
- ↑ Experience Rheinhessen Part 1; Weck, Worscht un Woi, accessed on June 14, 2020
- ↑ The Latin request Ergo bibamus - so let's drink comes from the student song Gaudeamus igitur .
- ↑ The abbreviation K94 means the foolish " campaign " of the 1994 carnival season.