Volkswagen bans its workers from eating meat and pays them to eat from a street vendor
Curry sausage is a popular lunchtime dish all over Germany, including in the staff canteen of Europe's largest car manufacturer, Volkswagen.
But the popular dish, made of long, thick, sliced pork sausages covered in spicy ketchup and curry powder, will soon disappear from the menu of the company's canteen in the northern German city of Wolfsburg, as the carmaker moves toward a diet for its employees more free of sugar. Meat, according to an internal company memo.
When employees return from their annual summer vacation in the coming weeks, they will find that all of the company's kitchen recipes are meat-free.
However, fish will continue to be served from time to time.
The memo said many employees wanted vegan and vegetarian alternatives, and that eating less meat per week also helped the environment.
"The times when vegetarian cuisine was treated like your mother-in-law's cooking are finally over," said a spokesman for the German Hotel and Restaurant Association, Dehoga.
The meat-free menu has already been successfully introduced at Volkswagen's offices in Hannover, near Wolfsburg.
But Volkswagen carnivores should not despair, curries will still be available from a street corner street corner where the company is based, as is the case almost everywhere in Germany.
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