This post comes awfully late but anyhow I thought it should be shared. A few days before I left Berlin I had spent the day near by in Wittenberg and stopped for lunch. Not realizing what I was ordering, the meal that I was given consisted of a plain bread roll and a plain sausage. This meal choice was written up at the entrance to the restaurant so I had expected it to be perhaps some local specialty. It could certainly be said that the German people are fond of their sausage and this was no exception. I assume now that this was meant to be similar to a hot dog or perhaps the hot dog is some spin off from this. I may never know. I have a strong feeling that the German diet has never won favor with the vegetarian crowd though as it seems that sausage is never left out of the mix at meal time.