wurst

plural wursts · plural rare würste · alternative würst

1. countableuncountableA German- or Austrian-style sausage.

   At an open-air flea market, we looked for Nazi memorabilia while munching wurst and drinking beer.

   2009, Tom Davis, “Incidents and Coincidence: Death Camps, Franken, and the Beatles”, in Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 201

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   If you pick up a package of liverwurst (German wurst, sausage), you may find that it contains, in addition to liver, nonfat dry milk, salt, corn syrup, flavorings (unspecified), sodium erythrobate, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, gelatin, and dextrose. The list reads like a list of chemicals for a laboratory experiment! If you wish to avoid “chemicals” in your food, wurst is one of the worst things you can buy.

   1975, John W[illiam] Hill, “Food: A Collage of Chemicals”, in Chemistry for Changing Times, 2nd edition, Minneapolis, Minn.: Burgess Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 251

   We had a long walk ahead to Stuttgart. We stopped to eat at a little meat market just outside Augsburg. I bought a loaf of bread and chose a couple of packages of wurst. It really was good.

   1973, Sammy Tippit, as told to Jerry Jenkins, “With God in Germany”, in Sammy Tippit: God’s Love in Action, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press, published 1976, →ISBN, page 117

   Although the supermarket tannoy was bravely broadcasting Rigoletto, its meat counter was thick with wurst and its wine shelves loaded with Liebfraumilch.

   1987, Christina Hardyment, “Harlekins and Gondolas”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 163

   Sure, the map says it’s Italy, but after walking through the centuries-old market at Piazza Erbe (Obstplatz) and seeing one too many suspiciously Teutonic-looking locals munching wurst, you might think you’ve crossed the Austrian border.

   1994, Berkeley students in cooperation with the Associated Students of the University of California, “Bolzano”, in “The Dolomites and the Northeast”, in Italy on the Loose 1995 (The Berkeley Guides: The Budget Traveler’s Handbook), New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 85

   Beyond lay the stately drab edifices of East Germany’s showpiece, now thronged with würste and sauerkraut sellers catering to the crowds.

   1995, Robert Harvey, “The Thaw and the Flood”, in The Return of the Strong: The Drift to Global Disorder, London: Macmillan London, →ISBN, page 3