Strammer Otto
Variation with liverwurst instead of ham.
Variation with liverwurst instead of ham.
A buttered slab of dense bread, ham, and a fried egg whose unbroken yolk is the running sauce. The Strammer Max is Germany's warm tavern plate, eaten open-faced with a knife and fork.
Strammer Max with melted cheese added.
A German fried egg folded into a split, buttered Brötchen so it can be eaten in one hand. The yolk floods the crumb at the base, the buttered roll a hot-counter cousin of the plated Strammer Max.
Scrambled egg roll; soft scrambled eggs in roll, breakfast style.
Germany's egg-salad roll: hard-boiled egg cut to clean cubes, bound with mayonnaise, mustard and chives in a crusty Brötchen. The cold half of the German egg case, beside the hot Strammer Max.
Egg roll; sliced hard-boiled egg with mayo, chives, salt, pepper.