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Environmental impacts and increasing calls for vegetarian options spell the end of VW's famous currywurst sausage.
Volkswagen has pulled the pin on its most popular model, with the German manufacturer no longer serving its famous currywurst to employees at its main production plant in Wolfsburg.
The traditional German delicacy will no longer be available in the staff canteen, ending a production run that spanned 48 years.
You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. estimates it produces around 7 million of the sausage every year. Around 40 per cent of that production is used to feed the company’s workers at Volkswagen’s sprawling industrial complex, the remaining 60 per cent sold at various stores and sites in and around Wolfsburg, home to VW’s headquarters.
But Volkswagen is ditching the delicious sausage, usually served with fries and a spicy tomato sauce, dusted with curry powder, in favor of vegan and vegetarian alternatives.
According to a Volkswagen staff memo, many employees at Wolfsburg wanted vegan and vegetarian alternatives on the menu.
Volkswagen also cited the environmental impacts of meat production as a deciding factor. Now, the sausage factory stops on August 20.
So popular has Volkswagen’s currywurst become since launching in 1973, it has been given its own Volkswagen Original Parts number (199 398 500 A). Annual currywurst production often exceeds VW's output of passenger vehicles.
Volkswagen also produces the spicy tomato sauce traditionally served with its currywurst, in excess of 600,000kg annually.
But, not everyone is happy with Volkswagen’s decision to no longer provide the decidedly German meal to its employees. Former German Chancellor (1998-2005), Gerhard Schröder is one vocal opponent, taking to Twitter to start a ‘save the currywurst’ campaign with the hashtag #rettetdieCurrywurst.
Schröder took to LinkedIn to air his frustrations and in an impassioned post wrote: “A vegetarian diet is good, and I do it myself in phases. But basically no currywurst? No.
“Currywurst with French fries is one of the power foods of the skilled workers in production. It should stay that way.”
Schröder, a former member of the Volkswagen government supervisory board added “there would have been no such thing," had he still been sitting the board.
It’s not the first time Volkswagen’s famous currywurst has been under threat. A decision to remove the pork sausage from the staff canteen at VW’s Golf assembly line was met with action from disgruntled employees and their union. Volkswagen was forced to reinstate the delicacy on the staff menu.
FROM: DRIVE.COM.AU
Volkswagen has pulled the pin on its most popular model, with the German manufacturer no longer serving its famous currywurst to employees at its main production plant in Wolfsburg.
The traditional German delicacy will no longer be available in the staff canteen, ending a production run that spanned 48 years.
You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. estimates it produces around 7 million of the sausage every year. Around 40 per cent of that production is used to feed the company’s workers at Volkswagen’s sprawling industrial complex, the remaining 60 per cent sold at various stores and sites in and around Wolfsburg, home to VW’s headquarters.
But Volkswagen is ditching the delicious sausage, usually served with fries and a spicy tomato sauce, dusted with curry powder, in favor of vegan and vegetarian alternatives.
According to a Volkswagen staff memo, many employees at Wolfsburg wanted vegan and vegetarian alternatives on the menu.
Volkswagen also cited the environmental impacts of meat production as a deciding factor. Now, the sausage factory stops on August 20.
So popular has Volkswagen’s currywurst become since launching in 1973, it has been given its own Volkswagen Original Parts number (199 398 500 A). Annual currywurst production often exceeds VW's output of passenger vehicles.
Volkswagen also produces the spicy tomato sauce traditionally served with its currywurst, in excess of 600,000kg annually.
But, not everyone is happy with Volkswagen’s decision to no longer provide the decidedly German meal to its employees. Former German Chancellor (1998-2005), Gerhard Schröder is one vocal opponent, taking to Twitter to start a ‘save the currywurst’ campaign with the hashtag #rettetdieCurrywurst.
Schröder took to LinkedIn to air his frustrations and in an impassioned post wrote: “A vegetarian diet is good, and I do it myself in phases. But basically no currywurst? No.
“Currywurst with French fries is one of the power foods of the skilled workers in production. It should stay that way.”
Schröder, a former member of the Volkswagen government supervisory board added “there would have been no such thing," had he still been sitting the board.
It’s not the first time Volkswagen’s famous currywurst has been under threat. A decision to remove the pork sausage from the staff canteen at VW’s Golf assembly line was met with action from disgruntled employees and their union. Volkswagen was forced to reinstate the delicacy on the staff menu.
FROM: DRIVE.COM.AU