Brötchen
German bread roll; small, crusty wheat roll, the basis for most German sandwiches. Regional names: Semmel (Bavaria), Schrippe (Berlin), W...
German bread roll; small, crusty wheat roll, the basis for most German sandwiches. Regional names: Semmel (Bavaria), Schrippe (Berlin), W...
Pretzel with butter and chives; split pretzel with herbed butter.
Pretzel; twisted lye bread, traditional with Weißwurst and mustard, also used as sandwich base.
Bratwurst with mustard; medium-hot German Senf (mustard) is traditional—Düsseldorfer (sharp), Bavarian süßer Senf (sweet), or Dijon-style.
Bratwurst with German potato salad in roll.
One excellent grilled sausage, one good roll, one sharp condiment, sold on the same square where Nuremberg first wrote sausage into law in 1313. The roll is a handle, not a wrapper.
Fried herring sandwich; floured and pan-fried herring fillet, served cold with onion marinade, in roll.
Turkish/Balkan filled pastry; flaky dough with cheese, meat, or spinach. At Turkish bakeries.
Hold the water just below a simmer and you have made one correctly; let it boil and you have ruined it. A pale, mild poached pork-and-veal sausage built to be good company beside a beer.
Boiled Bockwurst in roll with mustard.
Blood sausage on roll; sliced Blutwurst (blood sausage with pork blood, fat, barley or bread). Regional variations.
Bacon, lettuce, tomato; American-style, found in cafes.
A vinegar-cured herring fillet on a buttered Brötchen with raw onion rings. The German fish roll whose name was granted by Bismarck himself in 1871.
Organic currywurst; organic sausage and sauce, higher-end versions.
A pink-and-pistachio slice of German cured Brühwurst, folded onto a buttered Brötchen with mustard. The everyday comfortable middle of the cold-cut counter.
Plant-based meat substitute burger; increasingly available.
Berlin currywurst arrives fork-first: a skinless boiled sausage cut into coins, cooked-down curry sauce, a Schrippe on the side. The contested Herta Heuwer story dates to 1949.
A buttered split Brötchen and one chosen topping. The German category every other German roll on this site is a special case of, deliberately spare on purpose.
Topped baguette; long sandwich at bakeries with various fillings.
Bavarian white sausage; veal and pork with parsley, lemon, onion, ginger, cardamom. Traditionally boiled, eaten before noon with sweet mu...
Bauerntoast is the deftig twin of Toast Hawaii: same 1950s German toast craze, opposite turn. Where Hawaii went sweet with pineapple, the farmer's toast melted the Bauernfrühstück onto a slice.
'Farmer's bread' sandwich; rustic mixed-grain country loaf.
Baguette sandwich; French bread for sandwiches.
Bagel with various fillings; New York-style, in urban areas.