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Ketwurst
Google search interest for “Ketwurst” by state (0–100), 2025
East Berlin’s 1970s answer to the hot dog, a sausage in a hollowed-out roll with ketchup, is still searched nine times more in the East than in the West.
Inner-German border 1949–1990 ·16 states · 2025
Former West
7 index
excl. Berlin
Former East
61 index
excl. Berlin
Berlin
58 index
The East's figure is 9.1× the West's (2025).
By state
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern100 index
- Brandenburg91 index
- Berlin58 index
- Sachsen52 index
- Sachsen-Anhalt41 index
- Thüringen34 index
- Hamburg17 index
- Niedersachsen15 index
- Schleswig-Holstein15 index
- Baden-Württemberg6 index
- Bayern6 index
- Hessen6 index
- Nordrhein-Westfalen4 index
- Saarland0 index
- Bremen0 index
- Rheinland-Pfalz0 index
2025
How we measured this
Google Trends, region Germany, resolution by state, web search for the term “Ketwurst”, 2025, pulled on 4 November 2026. Google scales each state from 0 to 100 relative to the state with the highest share of searches for the term (100 = most interest). East and West are averages of the state values weighted by population (our calculation). A search index measures interest, not sales.
- Google samples its data, so repeat pulls vary by a few points; our repeat pulls moved the East/West ratio by at most 0.1.
- Small states with few searches can show 0 when they fall below Google’s reporting threshold.
Show the table
| State | Side | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Saarland | west | 0 index |
| Berlin | berlin | 58 index |
| Brandenburg | east | 91 index |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | east | 100 index |
| Sachsen | east | 52 index |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | east | 41 index |
| Thüringen | east | 34 index |
| Schleswig-Holstein | west | 15 index |
| Hamburg | west | 17 index |
| Niedersachsen | west | 15 index |
| Bremen | west | 0 index |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | west | 4 index |
| Hessen | west | 6 index |
| Rheinland-Pfalz | west | 0 index |
| Baden-Württemberg | west | 6 index |
| Bayern | west | 6 index |