Fun facts
Some of the most telling differences are the ones no statistics office counts: which flag people buy, what they snack on, which brands survived 1990. Here we measure them ourselves.
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W 50 index E 80 index
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W 7 index E 50 index
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W 10 index E 75 index
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W 7 index E 61 index
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W 0.65 kebab shops per pizzeria E 1.19 kebab shops per pizzeria
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Halle (Saale) has the cheapest döner of 36 cities in Lieferando’s 2025 index; the dearest is in Flensburg at €9.77, 1.7 times as much. Dresden (€8.01) is on the national average, so this is a Halle story more than an East/West one.
How: Average price of the most-ordered döner on Lieferando, March 2025, as reported from Lieferando’s Döner-Preisindex. Lieferando Döner-Preisindex 2025, via Volksstimme (31 Jul 2025)
1.3×
The West searches for “Currywurst” about a third more than the East (index 69 vs 52 in 2026). Saarland leads every year, followed by Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia.
How: Google Trends, search term “Currywurst”, January–October 2026, state values weighted by population. Google Trends; analysis Germany Divided
1.2×
The West searches slightly more for “Tiefkühlpizza” (index 74 vs 60 in 2026). Saarland scores 100, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is last. Germans ate almost 400,000 tonnes of frozen pizza in 2025, but nobody publishes it by region.
How: Google Trends, search term “Tiefkühlpizza”, January–October 2026; national tonnage from the German Frozen Food Institute (dti). Google Trends; Deutsches Tiefkühlinstitut
Google Trends, web search, 2025, state values weighted by population. Index 0–100 per term; compare East with West within a row, not between rows.
Former East Former West · Source: Google Trends; analysis Germany Divided.