In major German cities, the selection of food stalls and Street Food is now very diverse. However, from the Currywurst to the vegan Food Truck, it was a long way to go. The German snack trends from the past until today.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Meeting Place Trinkhalle
Especially in the Ruhr and in the Rhineland you can find this stalwart of the German fast-food culture. In a casual atmosphere is here talking in the evening at the small round bar tables, about what’s going on just so. There is also a coffee or a beer and a sandwich.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
The Fish Rolls
A fish sandwich is quick to prepare: matjes herring (in the picture), North sea crab or salmon Packed between two halves of a Bread roll with salad and onion garnish, done. The fish sandwich is one of the classics of German Snacks “to go” and has existed since the beginning of mass tourism in the 1960s.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Iconic Custom
Are stalls selling the fish sandwiches at Fish like this in the port of Hamburg. Really cult of the maritime Snack has been, after the formerly infamous Reeperbahn became the party zone for all. Since then, the fish sandwich is part of after a night of drinking to a visit to Hamburg.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
The Curry Sausage
What is the Northern German fish rolls, is the Berlin and the Ruhr area residents, the curry sausage. It is almost an identity and will be served in combination with French fries as a so-called “Manta controller”. Herbert Grönemeyer dedicated to Slang your 1982 even an Ode in the wide Ruhr: “you coming vonne layer / Wat schönret is et not like curry sausage”.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
The Scene Of The Crime Stall
Be eaten the curry sausage and less exotic relatives, the bratwurst Rust, usually on a table in front of the Sausage stand. The sausage shack is widely used especially in West Germany and of Berlin, and is used in the Cologne Version of the successful TV-series “Tatort” as a recurring backdrop.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
The Pizza
The quickly prepared, tasty food from Italy, took up his triumph in Germany in the fifties, after the arrival of the first guest workers and is still one of the most popular out-of-home Snacks. Both as a piece on Hand to Take away as well as in the Pizzeria, which has enjoyed unbroken popularity.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Doner makes beautiful
If he was sold in Berlin in 1972 or in 1969 in Reutlingen, Germany, for the first Time, the Doner Kebab is one of the most popular Snacks of the Germans. At the latest since the 1990s, it exists everywhere in Germany – whether it is classic, with meat or vegetarian, rolled Dürüm dough bag or in rolls. The original form of the Doner Kebab was created probably in the 19th century. Century in the North of Turkey.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Sushi
A few years ago it was something very Special, which you would have at a Japanese Restaurant to eat. Today, there is Sushi in many well-stocked supermarkets, especially in big cities. The former trend in food is for many professionals, a welcome change from the food in the Canteen in the lunch break.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Food culture and Lifestyle
Meanwhile, there are for every taste, food stalls and Street Food shops, for health – or environmentally conscious consumer. The snack culture is adaptable, sophisticated, and is no longer considered only as a Fast Food. Here is a man gleefully biting into an insect Burger, whose “meat” was made from grain mold beetle larvae.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Movable Stalls
It was already in the middle ages, now you can experience your new edition as a Hyper-modern Food Trucks: mobile food stalls. In many German cities for Street Food and markets are held regularly, where regional and international specialties from Food Trucks to be served. Here are the latest Snack Trends to watch and try.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Meeting Place Trinkhalle
Especially in the Ruhr and in the Rhineland you can find this stalwart of the German fast-food culture. In a casual atmosphere is here talking in the evening at the small round bar tables, about what’s going on just so. There is also a coffee or a beer and a sandwich.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
The Fish Rolls
A fish sandwich is quick to prepare: matjes herring (in the picture), North sea crab or salmon Packed between two halves of a Bread roll with salad and onion garnish, done. The fish sandwich is one of the classics of German Snacks “to go” and has existed since the beginning of mass tourism in the 1960s.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Iconic Custom
Are stalls selling the fish sandwiches at Fish like this in the port of Hamburg. Really cult of the maritime Snack has been, after the formerly infamous Reeperbahn became the party zone for all. Since then, the fish sandwich is part of after a night of drinking to a visit to Hamburg.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
The Curry Sausage
What is the Northern German fish rolls, is the Berlin and the Ruhr area residents, the curry sausage. It is almost an identity and will be served in combination with French fries as a so-called “Manta controller”. Herbert Grönemeyer dedicated to Slang your 1982 even an Ode in the wide Ruhr: “you coming vonne layer / Wat schönret is et not like curry sausage”.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
The Scene Of The Crime Stall
Be eaten the curry sausage and less exotic relatives, the bratwurst Rust, usually on a table in front of the Sausage stand. The sausage shack is widely used especially in West Germany and of Berlin, and is used in the Cologne Version of the successful TV-series “Tatort” as a recurring backdrop.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
The Pizza
The quickly prepared, tasty food from Italy, took up his triumph in Germany in the fifties, after the arrival of the first guest workers and is still one of the most popular out-of-home Snacks. Both as a piece on Hand to Take away as well as in the Pizzeria, which has enjoyed unbroken popularity.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Doner makes beautiful
If he was sold in Berlin in 1972 or in 1969 in Reutlingen, Germany, for the first Time, the Doner Kebab is one of the most popular Snacks of the Germans. At the latest since the 1990s, it exists everywhere in Germany – whether it is classic, with meat or vegetarian, rolled Dürüm dough bag or in rolls. The original form of the Doner Kebab was created probably in the 19th century. Century in the North of Turkey.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Sushi
A few years ago it was something very Special, which you would have at a Japanese Restaurant to eat. Today, there is Sushi in many well-stocked supermarkets, especially in big cities. The former trend in food is for many professionals, a welcome change from the food in the Canteen in the lunch break.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Food culture and Lifestyle
Meanwhile, there are for every taste, food stalls and Street Food shops, for health – or environmentally conscious consumer. The snack culture is adaptable, sophisticated, and is no longer considered only as a Fast Food. Here is a man gleefully biting into an insect Burger, whose “meat” was made from grain mold beetle larvae.
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Fast-food culture in Germany
Movable Stalls
It was already in the middle ages, now you can experience your new edition as a Hyper-modern Food Trucks: mobile food stalls. In many German cities for Street Food and markets are held regularly, where regional and international specialties from Food Trucks to be served. Here are the latest Snack Trends to watch and try.
In Germany, you know the greasy sausage shack in the Mall, when you are thinking twice whether to go in there and something on the Hand to get to. The selection is limited to: Bratwurst, curry sausage, French fries. Mustard, Ketchup or Mayonnaise. Those takeaways have shaped decades of the Republic, meanwhile, is slowly dying out, much like the classic corner pubs. They will be replaced by modern, bright shop local with Flair, in which Burger creations are offered, such as “the Burger of the week with grilled Antipasti vegetables, Basil pesto, Haselnussmayo and Scamorza-grilled cheese”. This truffle-Parmesan are served with fries. However, from the sausage to the Hand-to vegetable Burger, it was a long way.
Snack: an invention of the middle ages
The idea of the Snack or the meal is not new. Already in the middle ages there were in Germany mobile food stalls. Markets food was sold from carts. Outside of market days, food was on the way, however, is by no means the Norm. “Because Germany, like the whole of Central Europe was for centuries a lack of society, there was to eat just enough,” said the cultural anthropologist Gunther Hirschfelder of the University of Regensburg. This results in a solid meal order was. Was eaten according to fixed rules, fixed times and at home. To trot “through the area and to nibble anything was considered indecent”.
In the popular crime series “Tatort” is the classic sausage shack cult
Is broken this rigid System in Germany only after the Second world war. In the reconstruction of a new Form of out-of-home consumption: the so-called debris stalls in the rubble of the German cities. In Cologne, there are, for example, in the late 1940s, the “Puszta hut”, in the goulash out of pots is served. The is frowned upon out-of-home eating in General, but the Foundation stone is laid. Parallel to this, the American soldiers, the new guiding norm. They bring not only a lot of nonchalance, chewing gum and chocolate, but also their own culture. Even in the media focuses on the on-the-Go-eat “Diners” by the US movies of that time into the consciousness of the Germans.
Mass motorization and Snack-Boom
Another Foundation for the modern German fast-food culture was in the mining towns of the Ruhr area in the 19th century. Century. In the so-called “beer halls” will be offered clean water, because normal water is undrinkable. Later, the range expanded to include coffee or tea and magazines. After the war, the workers laid here on the way to the layer, or after work, a cigarette break and drank a beer. Soon, there are sandwiches.
The real triumph of the takeaways finally begins in the sixties with the economic recovery. Meat consumption is the norm, from England and the Netherlands, the Trend of the fries shacks spills over to Germany. The need for a quick Snack on the Hand grows and grows. Economic miracle, mass motorization and the new desire to travel will do the Rest. Guest workers from Italy, Greece and Turkey in the German Wholesale and industrial cities, their first fast local and booths on.
Way from quick snacks to a sustainable enjoyment: queue in front of a vegan snack bar in Berlin-Kreuzberg
The Sausage will soon be competition from Pizza and Gyros, and later by the popular Doner Kebab. 1971 is finally opened in Munich, the first German McDonald’s Restaurant. In the 1970s and ‘ 80s, the Fast Food culture is at its peak: The Snack can’t go fast enough and should make you full. Taste and sustainability are of secondary importance.
Slow Food, health, and environmental awareness
At the latest with the turn of the Millennium, the fast-food culture changed noticeably. The classic “Fast Food” has a bad reputation and is considered to be unhealthy. The Trend is away from simple “quick and convenient” way to health – and environmentally-conscious food. The residence time of snacks is increasing, the demand for vegetarian and vegan food is growing. And the booths fit: in the Meantime, there’s the classic Bratwurst from the Stall at the football stadium of the Indian vegan food at the Festival, to the insect-Burger Food Truck has something for every taste. “In our verse with decades of style, the social Life of the individual life-style is expressed by the lifestyle of eating,” said Gunther Hirschfelder. The “permanent Versnackung” and the “out-of-home Trend” will continue in his estimation, to continue, due to new forms of mobility and the growing number of Single households.
And what is the latest Trend, Snack 2.0? According to the deer of the fields, the trend is away from exoticism and towards a “non-political re-nationalisation” and regionalisation of the German fast-food culture. In short, The Leberkäs-Semmel at the local butcher or the pretzel from the bakery around the corner apply to younger people as cool. But it is surely only a matter of time until a new snack trend.