Worscht

It’s a snooty sausage shop with snooty service. I thought I would be more excited to have a sausage shop in the neighborhood, but I’m not. All the sausages are super high end gourmet things, but twice now I’ve bought something and found out it was a week or three past it’s expiration date when I got home. If you’re going to charge top prices for meat products, I think you’d at least make sure they’re not expired before you sell them. The sausages are around 3 – 5 euros and up for one little sausage, so things get expensive quickly. I wouldn’t even mind that if they tasted good, but everything I’ve had there is a little weird. It’s either too fatty or too tough or just ok, and not worth the expense in my opinion. And there’s no beef jerky, or regular meat products that aren’t high end sausages, so it’s not really possible to stop in for a quick snack. This is a place with serious sausage, for people who have time for serious sausage.
The customer service is always awkward. The woman who works there, possibly the owner? keeps responding to me in English no matter how many times I speak to her in Dutch, and her English is not that good. It’s the kind of English that’s just a literal translation from Dutch words and phrases. It is often confusing and makes no sense. Sometimes I ask her to repeat herself because I have no idea what she’s saying and she gets snippy with me while repeating the exact same thing and making hand gestures. At no point will she just respond in Dutch. Or smile.
She has fancy mustards and ketchups and fancy little knives for cutting your expensive sausages, and weird super long artisanal cutting boards that go up to your chest and no doubt were imported on the back of a Pygmy from Africa. So if you need some snooty sausage accouterments, check this place out. Otherwise, eh, I’d rather go to a butcher to get some nice meat.

The Czaar Peterstraat is a playground for treasure hunters. Small specialized shops in abundance, new ones popping up frequently. One of the latest being Dreamboat, a stylish yet groovy fashion spot for cosmopolitan city dwellers. Worscht is another treasure trove, one that is filled with sausages and ‘accessories’: Czaar Peter beer, bread, mustard and pickles. The sausages in stock are organic and made in a traditional way. Dried sausages, smoked sausages, sandwich sausages, apéritif sausages. Sausages with red wine or walnut, mortadella, boudin noir. It’s easily to get lost in this mighty meat jungle. So why don’t you focus on the sausage I traced recently? A dried pork sausage based on the recipe of fa chong, a classic Chinese sausage! Fa chong is often used for noodle and rice dishes, but the version of quality butcher Spijkerman (Akkrum, Friesland) is made to pair with your pre-​dinner drinks. It’s a rather spicy devil; the meat is blended with Madame Jeanette pepper. To soothe your senses you may want to eat it with gherkins or Amsterdam onions.