Why does this sauce even exist?
Hey, I’m Dennis. For as long as I can remember, I've loved potato salad and sausages. So much that I almost always ended up eating way too much of it. On Christmas Eve it was the standard meal at our house. And if this culinary masterpiece wasn't on the table at Christmas for once, I was seriously disappointed. Well, and what's the sauce you always have with it? Mustard, obviously! Right? As a kid I loved mixing mustard with ketchup, but those days are long gone.
This sausage obsession has stayed with me my whole life. Even when I started my YouTube channel. I honestly have no idea how many sausages I've eaten in hundreds of ASMR and mukbang videos, but it was a lot.
That's also where I got the idea to mix mustard with woodruff and chili. Mostly because the mustard shelf at the supermarket always looks the same. I wanted to try something completely new in a video: new mustard combinations with sausage. So I grabbed a bottle of woodruff syrup (Waldmeister, my favourite flavour as a kid) and mixed it with regular mustard. Already pretty tasty. Then I tried chili in mustard. Brilliant, because you get two kinds of heat.
Then I had the idea to mix all of it together. Tried it and declared it epic. The idea for Wurstfreund was born. But I didn't actually make the sauce until a year later. When I almost died during surgery, something clicked: just do things, now.
I'm a very curious person who loves to experiment and doesn't mind making mistakes along the way. And this sauce is probably made for exactly that kind of person.
Dennis