Wednesday Gourmet (Wednesday Food Talk / 수요미식회)

Welcome to the 220th episode of Wednesday Food Talk.

Welcome. - Welcome.

Today's theme is...

something that was really popular...

as one of our lunchbox side dishes.

It's really a good snack for beer for adults.

It's the best snack for alcohol.

It's homemade sausage.

Here are today's guests.

He is from the hometown of sausages.

He is a brainiac from Germany.

But he is here as a sausage expert today.

Please welcome Daniel Lindemann.

Hello. Nice to meet you.

She is a trot singer who is getting really popular these days.

This lady is amazing.

She's the queen of trot songs for expressways, Geum Jan Di.

Hello. - Nice to meet you.

I'm here to dominate sausages, not some older men.

I'm Geum Jan Di. - Right.

What did she mean? - It's about her song.

The title of my song is "Older Brother".

I entertained so many older brothers in Korea.

I'll entertain the viewers with sausages today.

Trot singers would usually sing a snippet when they are here.

You know what she means now. - Right.

Today's theme is homemade sausages.

Germany is known for great sausages.

Does a sausage mean a lot to Germans...

like how kimchi means a lot to us?

I'd like to say no to that.

Really? - Yes.

I heard about that a lot.

But I don't think they should be treated the same.

Really? - Traditionally,

Koreans used to have kimchi three times a day.

It's something you always have when you have a meal.

But Germans do not eat sausages that often.

It feels more like stir-fried spicy pork.

Goodness. Is it more like stir-fried spicy pork?

I get it now. - We eat that a lot too.

It's something we would have 2 to 3 times a week.

You can't have it every day.

Now that he describes it as stir-fried spicy pork,

I can relate to it. - Right.

I heard that there is this specific sausage you have in the morning.

That's right. It's called leberwurst.

It's a type of liver sausage.

Liver? - Right.

We spread it on bread like how we have cream cheese.

It's a type of liver sausage.

I used to have that when I was a kid.

When the church bells ring,

I'd visit my mother's or grandmother's place.

My grandmother would give me that minced sausage...

with some bread. - Your grandmother?

I have that memory from my childhood.

Goodness. It would be like, "Kids, your meal is ready."

Then we would run home.

Grandmother would make some soup. - Doenjang stew.

They would prepare a meal with some steamed rice too.

But for Germans, they had bread and minced sausages.

But that's not the end.

She would also add some cucumbers and pickles.

I have the bread with some soup...

as well as a hot tea.

Seok Jin tried some sausages in Germany.

Right. - What was your favorite?

When I was in Germany,

I saw many sausage stalls on the street.

When I looked at the menu,

it wasn't written as sausages.

It said "Wurst".

It's German. - Right.

I figured that it meant sausages.

They recommended currywurst because it was popular.

I found it delicious. I'm sure Koreans would all love it.

The sauce with the curry aroma was really good.

It was all over the sausages like tteokbokki.

The sausage itself also had...

some blended spices as well.

It tasted like some salty and spicy curry we all know.

It's like sundae or tteokbokki.

It's a street food.

Berlin is known for street foods.

When my classes ended,

my mother would ask me to buy those street sausages.

I brought them home.

I had them with French fries.

It's something you can have as a snack.

Korea does not have various types of sausages.

The most common sausage that Koreans would encounter for the first time.

I don't mean the young people of these days.

I mean those who are middle-aged.

Most of them probably had that pink sausage for the first time.

We usually had it in our lunchboxes.

Do you remember? - I was in my first grade.

I used to bring lunchboxes to school.

My mother used to get that thick pink sausage.

She chopped it. - Right.

She covered them with eggs.

Then she grilled them for me.

When I brought that to school,

my friends were so happy that I brought it.

I shared it with my friends.

Sometimes, I miss those times.

So I make it at home these days.

The freshly grilled ones have that savory smell.

But if you have them cold,

you can taste the true flavor of the pink sausage.

To taste that flavor and smell it,

you should have it cool.

That's my way of having it. - Really?

You need a lot of ketchup when you have it cold.

My goodness.

He can't live without ketchup.

He can live without gochujang,

but not without ketchup.

I didn't know that it was delicious when I was young.

It was just so dry. I didn't understand why people had it.

But if you have it with ketchup, it's really good.

The sausages we used to have when we were young...

are more like fish cakes.

Fish flesh used to be cheap then.

The pink sausage had fish flesh.

They added colors. - They added colors to it.

It was also mixed with flour.

It's not a traditional sausage.

They did that to increase the quantity...

because we all were poor.

Then there came Vienna sausages in the 1980s.

We also had frankfurters.

There was a transition period.

There was a time when everyone was excited to have...

pink sausages when I brought them to school.

Those rich kids used to bring pink sausages.

Those who were a bit richer...

covered them with some eggs.

The kids who were in the top fifth percentile...

started to sneak in Vienna sausages to school.

The hierarchy of sausages. - Right.

Seriously. There's a clear hierarchy.

Seriously. When you had your lunch,

this was very evident at school. - Right.

I'm sure you all remember. Don't you?

When I was growing up, as for Vienna sausages,

we could only pack them...

on special days like school trips. - That's right.

When my mom packed them for special occasions,

she cut them in quarters.

If you stir-fry them after making those cuts,

they open up like flowers. - Right.

Like octopus tentacles. - Right.

When they open up, I would bite it off one by one.

1 spoonful, 1 tentacle. - 1 for 1 tentacle.

The sausages link was pretty shocking at the time.

Seeing the sausages all connected...

was shocking, wasn't it? - Yes.

At first, some people argued that we shouldn't eat...

the sausage casing which looked like plastic bags.

And some people said it was edible.

I remember seeing some of my friends...

trying too hard to peel the casing before eating them.

I also peeled it off at first. - Really?

I thought that it was plastic.

My friends said, "Hey, don't be so lame", and just ate the casing.

One time, I saw similar-looking sausages...

when my mom packed the sausages for my lunchbox. And I ate them.

But those were real plastic.

Yes, some sausages had that.

Some sausages had plastic casing. - Some sausages had that.

Right? It was like a gum wrapper. - Some sausages had that.

Right.

When you keep chewing the casing, the salty flavor comes out from it.

I'm sure it seeped into the casing.

I remember my friends mocking me.

Some were real plastic. - It was real plastic.

But when we were young, we weren't sure.

Along with sausages, ham was also a big hit back then.

As I have the palate of a kid,

I can't tell sausages and ham apart.

How are they different?

First, they have different shapes.

Sausages are inside casings like plastic wrappers.