Google Doodle: currywurst!

On Sunday June 30 (2013) we fired up the computers and of course, at some point, did a Google search.
This was the screen that greeted us:

I had already typed in my search text and hit Enter... it took a second or two for my brain to process the doodle.
Quickly hitting "back" on my browser, I examined the graphic again:

Hey, that looks like currywurst!  Clicking on the doodle, it took us to Google search results for Herta Heuwer:

Wikipedia says:  "Herta Charlotte Heuwer (June 30, 1913 in Königsberg - July 3, 1999 in Berlin) invented the take-out dish that would become the world-renowned currywurst on September 4, 1949. The day before what would have been her 90th birthday, a plaque was dedicated in her honour on the corner of Kant and Kaiser Friedrich Streets, Berlin where she first produced the dish. The original Currywurst was a boiled sausage, fried, with a sauce of tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, curry powder and other ingredients."

It would have been Herta's 100th birthday when the doodle appeared.

German newspaper Die Welt had already posted an article about the doodle, Frau Heuwer, and currywurst.
The last item on the search results was a YouTube video that someone had made within 4 hours of the doodle!
The video shows the doodle, and gives brief info about Frau Heuwer and her currywurst creation.  (Odd!)

Herta Heuwer appears in Who's Who Germany, and has had a Facebook page created for her!

For the uninitiated, there are a few standard presentations of currywurst.

1)  Just the currywurst, sliced, with a small fork.  Classic street and fair food:

Source: Wikimedia Commons
2)  Currywurst with pommes, also sliced.  Probably even more popular with the french fries:

Source: andberlin.com
3)  Just like the Google Doodle, you can get the currywurst mit pommes including mayo:

Source: berliner.de
4)  Finally, you can move up to fine dining... in the case of currywurst means that the wurst is NOT sliced,
and everything is served on a real plate (instead of paper), using metal utensils instead of plastic.
The Siemens company cafeteria serves this once every week, just as pictured -- it generates the longest lines!

Source: recetasgratis.net 

Naturally, we spent a little more time searching around, because currywurst is indeed popular here.
We then found something previously unknown:  a Currywurst Museum ! Located in Berlin, of course.

We even found this page of someone who helped develop a kids video game "Curry Up!" for the museum!

This now is absolutely on our list of "to do" items, and we look forward to a Schnitzelbahn post about it.

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 10...Media and multi-theme logos

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.  This blog entry is the 10th "quiz" of Doodles and the last one (for now).

Below are three Doodles recognizing the birthdays of radio and film directors, two historical figures that did not fit into the previous categories, plus two Doodles that each reflect two topics:

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#1    Birthday of Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds)
#2    Birthday of Akira Kurosawa (Japanese film director)
#3    Birthday of H. G. Wells (War of the Worlds)
#4    Birthday of Ghandi
#5    "Birthday" of Confucius
#6    Independence Day (4th of July)  and  Birthday of Rube Goldberg (cartoons of complex machines)
#7    New Year's Day  and  Birthday of TCP/IP which is the communications protocol for the Internet!

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 9...Scientists, Inventors, & Explorers

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Scientists, Inventors, and Explorers whose birthdays were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Alexander Graham Bell (invented the telephone)
#2    Robert Bunsen (discovered the element cesium, developed the Bunsen Burner -- remember chemistry class?)
#3    Albert Einstein (invented the Theory of Relativity)
#4    Louis Braille
#5    Gaston Julia (mathematician who devised the Julia set, which is the foundation for the Mandelbrot set and fractals)
#6    Nikola Tesla (invented the induction motor, Tesla coil, alternating current electrical transmission, wireless communication before radio... and much more)
#7    Jacques Cousteau (co-developed the aqua-lung, oceanic explorer)
#8    Thomas Edison (invented the light bulb, phonograph, motion-picture camera, and more)

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 8...Popular Culture

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the People and Items in Popular Culture whose birthdays were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Birthday of Lego bricks
#2    Birthday of Tetris
#3    Birthday of Pippi Longstocking ("Pippi Langstrumf" in Germany!)
#4    Birthday of the Ice Cream Sundae
#5    Birthday of Harry Houdini
#6    Birthday of Pac-Man (you could click on the logo and it opened a game you could play!)

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 7...Historic Milestones & Achievements

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Historic Milestones and Achievements whose dates were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Berlin Wall starts to fall
#2    First Ascent of Mt. Everest by Edmund Hillary
#3    First Hot Air Balloon Flight
#4    First [Airplane] Flight
#5    First Human-made Object to Orbit the Earth (Sputnik)
#6    First Human Landing on the Moon

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 6...Inventions & Discoveries

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Inventions and Discoveries whose dates were recognized with a Doodle:

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#1    Discovery of X-Rays
#2    Invention of the Laser
#3    Discovery of Buckeyballs
#4    Invention of the Large Hadron Collider
#5    Invention of the Bar Code
#6    Discovery of DNA

Google Doodles Quiz - Part 5...Holidays

In this prior post we briefly described Google Doodles and had a quiz.

Now it's time to guess the Holidays that are recognized with a Doodle (often a different Doodle every year):

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#1    Easter
#2    Valentine's Day
#3    Father's Day
#4    Thanksgiving (designed by Ina Garten)
#5    St. Patrick's Day
#6    Halloween (designed by Wes Craven)
#7    St. Nicholas Day (not Christmas!  Notice the shoes...)
#8    Feb 29th in Leap Year
#9    Dr. Martin Luther King Day
#10  New Year's Day (Roman numerals will tell you the year...)