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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 12/13/2018 at 16:02 • Filed to: Volkswagen, Currywurst

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This is a helpi ng of VW currywurst which I bought this summer at the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in Dresden.

What I didn’t know is that it really is currywurst by VW. Their original factory in Wolfsburg makes it in a corner of what used to be a storage area and supplies six plants in Germany and various local businesses. It’s got its own part number.

For Sweden > Cé hé sin 12/13/2018 at 16:30

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Sure you can easily buy it factory direct, but try getting it from a local dealer.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Cé hé sin 12/13/2018 at 16:40

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Given that currywurst is (at least per my sense) mostly a Berlin thing, I wonder what regional differences exist between a VW Wolfsburg currywurst and a Berlin one. Other than the presentation one, of course - I think the Berlin currywurst I’ve had was either unsliced or sliced lengthwise, served with fries/chips, and with the wurst spiced dry and the sauce alongside.

But the sausage itself-  given how much variation exists in bratwurst alone across Germany, I wonder. The one I remember was very akin to a kielbasa.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Cé hé sin 12/13/2018 at 16:48

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What’s the part number?

nermal > Cé hé sin 12/13/2018 at 16:57

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Can’t believe that I’ve never heard of currywurst. I’m on a mission to get it now.....

Cé hé sin > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/13/2018 at 17:06

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The big thing with the echt VW Wurst is the sauce, I’m told. There was consternation when Mondelez, one of those huge but hugely unknown companies who make things associated with other and older companies, decided to stop making it and another supplier had to be both found and persuaded to replicate the original.

Currywurst’s everywhere now. This is the August-Horch-Museum’s variation with split ends:

Cé hé sin > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 12/13/2018 at 17:07

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199 398 500 A (the sauce has a B inste ad of the A!)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Cé hé sin 12/13/2018 at 17:13

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The Horch Museum’s sauce looks quite good - something like a small rural eatery’s high- vinegar homemade ketchup. The VW variety by looks hews a bit too close to American-style “frank-n-beans” without beans for me to hazard a guess on what it’d likely taste like - was it more predominantly sweet, astringent, or savory?

When I had it in Berlin, the sauce was a more astringent alternative to Heinz, otherwise pretty similar.

Cé hé sin > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/13/2018 at 17:24

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I didn’t pay any particular attention to the sauce I’m afraid, but I’d describe it as more sweet than anything else.

The VW wurst is the better of the two, if you get the choice!

Dogsatemypants > For Sweden 12/13/2018 at 18:05

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Restricted to european dealer network. I asked our parts guy.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Cé hé sin 12/13/2018 at 21:07

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I’ve wondered what would happen if I went to the local VW and tried to order it by part number. I suspect they wouldn’t carry it.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Dogsatemypants 12/13/2018 at 21:08

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Ah.  I had always wondered.  Now I know.

Cé hé sin > BaconSandwich is tasty. 12/14/2018 at 04:41

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There is but one way to find out...

Cé hé sin > Dogsatemypants 12/14/2018 at 06:24

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I think the Americans have issues with imported pork products.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Cé hé sin 12/14/2018 at 21:19

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Someone else already replied here - it's a European market only part.

Dogsatemypants > BaconSandwich is tasty. 12/14/2018 at 21:34

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Idk why they region lock parts. There is much that i would like to get from a global catalog.

I support the N ew W orld ( critical parts)  O rder.