On Sunday June 30 (2013) we fired up the computers and of course, at some point, did a Google search.
This was the screen that greeted us:
I had already typed in my search text and hit Enter... it took a second or two for my brain to process the doodle.
Quickly hitting "back" on my browser, I examined the graphic again:
Hey, that looks like currywurst! Clicking on the doodle, it took us to Google search results for Herta Heuwer:
Wikipedia says: "Herta Charlotte Heuwer (June 30, 1913 in Königsberg - July 3, 1999 in Berlin) invented the take-out dish that would become the world-renowned currywurst on September 4, 1949. The day before what would have been her 90th birthday, a plaque was dedicated in her honour on the corner of Kant and Kaiser Friedrich Streets, Berlin where she first produced the dish. The original Currywurst was a boiled sausage, fried, with a sauce of tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, curry powder and other ingredients."
It would have been Herta's 100th birthday when the doodle appeared.
German newspaper Die Welt had already posted an article about the doodle, Frau Heuwer, and currywurst.
The last item on the search results was a YouTube video that someone had made within 4 hours of the doodle!
The video shows the doodle, and gives brief info about Frau Heuwer and her currywurst creation. (Odd!)
Herta Heuwer appears in Who's Who Germany, and has had a Facebook page created for her!
For the uninitiated, there are a few standard presentations of currywurst.
1) Just the currywurst, sliced, with a small fork. Classic street and fair food:
Source: Wikimedia Commons
2) Currywurst with pommes, also sliced. Probably even more popular with the french fries:
Source: andberlin.com
3) Just like the Google Doodle, you can get the currywurst mit pommes including mayo:
Source: berliner.de
4) Finally, you can move up to fine dining... in the case of currywurst means that the wurst is NOT sliced,
and everything is served on a real plate (instead of paper), using metal utensils instead of plastic.
The Siemens company cafeteria serves this once every week, just as pictured -- it generates the longest lines!
Source: recetasgratis.net
Naturally, we spent a little more time searching around, because currywurst is indeed popular here.
We then found something previously unknown: a Currywurst Museum ! Located in Berlin, of course.
We even found this page of someone who helped develop a kids video game "Curry Up!" for the museum!
This now is absolutely on our list of "to do" items, and we look forward to a Schnitzelbahn post about it.