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In Frankfurt, Germany, Hot Dog Haters Are the Wurst
German sausage fans say U.N. is full of baloney; meat warning ‘nonsense’
By Natascha Divac and
Daniel Michaels
Nov. 4, 2015 8:55 p.m. ET
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FRANKFURT—Here in the city that gave its name to the famous sausage, the World Health Organization’s warning against eating processed meats is hard to swallow.
The United Nations body last week said eating frankfurters and their ilk can cause cancer. To Germans, many of whom consider sausage and cured meats comfort food, that idea doesn’t go down well.
“It’s total nonsense,†said Simone Kluge while selling sausages to a line of customers in Frankfurt’s main market hall. “If it were true, every German would have already died of wurst,†she scoffed, using the German word for sausage.
Many cultures make sausages. Italian salami, Polish kielbasa, French saucisson and British bangers are widely known. But Germans have a special affinity for the oblong food.
Of 31 types listed in the U.S. National Hot Dog and Sausage Council’s online sausage glossary, 11 come from Germany and two more come from heavily Germanic Austria. Italy is a distant second place, with six varieties.
Germany has at least three museums devoted to sausages. Sausages were a hot potato in national elections two years ago and the language is peppered with sausage references.
In a make-or-break situation, Germans say: “It’s about the sausage.†For indifference, they say: “It’s sausage to me.â€
http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-frankfurt-germany-hot-dog-haters-are-the-wurst-1446688515
There will be sausages, sauerkraut and beer in Heaven.
No Muslims. No Obamas, Clintons or Merkel.