Currywurst

Doner kebabs and hamburgers have not been able to detract from the "currywurst", which still remains one of Germany's most popular dishes – 800 million are eaten in Germany every year.

Herta Heuwer, who invented the quick snack, certainly never expected her culinary creation – bite-sized pieces of sausage covered in curry-flavoured ketchup – to prove a hit with so many people. When she made Germany's new favourite meal for the first time on 4 September 1949, it was just a way of passing time, though decades later it has become a classic – not only in Germany.

Invented by: Herta Heuwer
In: 1949