Thüringer Mett
Thuringian Mett; regional preparation, may include caraway.
Thuringian Mett; regional preparation, may include caraway.
Beech-charcoal smoke, a turned grate, a coarse marjoram-scented sausage and a crusty roll: the Thuringian stand classic, on record since an Erfurt inventory of 1392.
Teewurst Brötchen is restraint on a roll: a smoked, raw-cured spreadable sausage drawn across crusty bread, named for the teatime table. Its protected name was fixed to Rügenwalde in 1927.
Raw beef sold with a straight face: Schabefleisch, scraped off the sinew, mounded on a crusty roll under onion, capers, and a whole yolk. The Tatarbrötchen seasons everything early except the salt.
Mersin's tantuni lives in two choices: beef diced to grain size so seasoning reaches everywhere, and cottonseed oil that keeps a fried-meat wrap eating light. Worked on an open iron sac.
Head cheese/aspic on roll; sliced Sülze (meat in aspic, typically pork).
Grilled Turkish sausage (sucuk—spiced, garlicky beef sausage) in bread with vegetables.
Sliced fried sucuk wrapped in flatbread with vegetables and sauce.
Subway's build-your-own sub in Germany: 307 restaurants by March 2006, 666 by 2025, a vegan Wednesday patty, and a 30 cm roll priced against one-euro burgers.
'Stulle' is northern term for simple buttered bread or sandwich, often open-faced.
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.
The whipped quark-and-paprika spread of the Rheinhessen wine taverns, heaped onto a split Brötchen or a torn lye pretzel and eaten beside a glass of the grower's own Riesling.
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.
Turkish sesame bread ring; like large pretzel with sesame. From Turkish bakeries, eaten plain or with cheese/spreads.
A sesame-crusted wheat roll from the German bakery counter, split and filled with ham, salami, turkey, raw ham or boiled egg at Bäckerei Middelberg.
Bavarian roll; slightly different shape and texture from northern Brötchen.
Pollock sandwich; fried or smoked pollock (Seelachs) in roll.
'Six in a roll'; heartier portion of Nuremberg sausages.
On a south-German menu Schweizer means cheese, not Switzerland: a vinegar-and-oil Wurstsalat with Emmental strips folded in, heaped cold into a split Semmel for the afternoon Vesper.
Schweinshaxe Brotchen folds a Bavarian beer-tent centerpiece into one hand: meat carved warm off a roasted pork knuckle, crackling shards tucked in, on a sturdy roll.
The cutlet in this roll is the one that legally cannot be a Wiener Schnitzel, because that name is reserved for veal. This is pork: cheaper, everywhere, its crisp breading the whole point.
Black Forest ham roll; dry-cured, cold-smoked ham from the Black Forest region, PGI protected, intense flavor.