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Volkswagen To Stop Serving Sausage In Wolfsburg As It Tries To Leave Its Wurst Emissions Behind
Jalopnik ^ | 26 Aug 2021 | José Rodríguez Jr.

Posted on 08/26/2021 1:32:40 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The German carmaker is replacing its Currywurst with vegetarian alternatives.

After nearly 50 years, Volkswagen will no longer serve its famous made-in-house sausage at its Wolfsburg production plant.

In 2019, the Volkswagen butcher’s shop still produced 7 million curry sausages.

Volkswagen is cutting its meat production for the sake of sustainability, and it makes sense, but people are losing it over the announcement. As Politico put it, for some folks, this is just “the Wurst!” It flies in the face of decades of sausage-eating tradition. Currywurst production has been ongoing at VW since 1973

The sausage is such a VW staple, that it actually has a Volkswagen part number. The sausage casing reads “Volkswagen Originalteil” which roughly translates to “Volkswagen Original Part.”

The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder took to LinkedIn to express his anger with VW’s decision to kill the currywurst. S

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; History
KEYWORDS: currywurst; getwokegobroke; vegetarian; volkswagen; vw
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IIRC VW owns the hog farms for this product. Also available in grocery stores.

Gets good reviews.

THat said VW repurchase of my son's diesel left a bad taste in my mouth.

1 posted on 08/26/2021 1:32:40 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That’s as bad as IKEA would be if it stopped serving Swedish meatballs.


2 posted on 08/26/2021 1:35:19 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Muslims don’t eat sausage.


3 posted on 08/26/2021 1:35:23 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population is taxed w/o representation.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Der Führer would approve, he was a vegetarian.


4 posted on 08/26/2021 1:36:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Volkswagen is cutting its meat production for the sake of sustainability”

Why don’t they just exit the automobile industry if they are so damned worried about global warming and the ludicrous “sustainability”? Shut down the factories, lay off all the workers, fire all the exec staff and be done with it.


5 posted on 08/26/2021 1:36:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Get woke, go broke.


6 posted on 08/26/2021 1:40:57 PM PDT by simpson96
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That should save planet Earth!!! 🌎🌏🌎


7 posted on 08/26/2021 1:42:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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> Muslims don’t eat sausage. <

Bingo. I’ll bet that some peaceful Muslim invader/worker complained. And everything VW said here is just smoke.


8 posted on 08/26/2021 1:42:37 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have alrseady previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

if they are so damned worried about global warming and the ludicrous “sustainability”? Shut down the factories, lay off all the workers, fire all the exec staff...

And sit around in some cubby hole somewhere waiting or the world to spontaneously burst into flames

meanwhile sensible people will enjoy our lives-


9 posted on 08/26/2021 1:43:08 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: DUMBGRUNT; All

However, Volkswagon will STILL be carrying coals to Newcastle!

*SNORT*

Dad owned 17 VWs through the years. I’ve owned a VW Bug, a Jetta (POS!) and now drive his VW Golf.

Good cars, bad PR in the past decade or so. Everything has gone to shiite. :(


10 posted on 08/26/2021 1:45:18 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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I was in Berlin years ago consulting. The Company one evening had a beer garden party with sausages, kraut ect. and beer all you can eat.

Wow was that good.


11 posted on 08/26/2021 1:50:01 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: rfp1234

>>That’s as bad as IKEA would be if it stopped serving Swedish meatballs.<<

Had those the other day for the first time.

AWFUL!

Dry, inedible spheres with the consistency of the fiberglass furniture they feature.

And I had to ask for 3 dabs of sauce to cover them with a single coating. I should have just asked for the sauce.


12 posted on 08/26/2021 2:07:41 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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You need to complain to management.
I’ve had those dozens of times and they are awesome.
Also their fried chicken sandwich is sublime.


13 posted on 08/26/2021 2:09:12 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: DUMBGRUNT

From the article:

“But Schröder is living in 1998 (having been chancellor from ’98 to ’05) if he isn’t hip to the impact that food production, and meat especially, has on the environment.”

That statement alone would make me distance myself from that stupid publication.


14 posted on 08/26/2021 2:09:35 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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...to be replaced with vegetarian alternatives that consume far more “carbon” then pork farming.


15 posted on 08/26/2021 2:13:09 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: dfwgator

He also gave the KDF-Wagen its start.


16 posted on 08/26/2021 2:14:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Bob434

” Shut down the factories, lay off all the workers, fire all the exec staff...”

Nah, that’s not enough. Anyone seriously worried about “climate change” needs to go delete themselves from the gene pool. That’s the only meaningful activism they can take at this point.


17 posted on 08/26/2021 2:14:30 PM PDT by Boogieman
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18 posted on 08/26/2021 2:15:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Schwulwagen??


19 posted on 08/26/2021 2:16:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Definitely, a turn for the Wurst.


20 posted on 08/26/2021 2:17:05 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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