Most of the time, when we eat Bratwurst, it is just a snack, fast food from a street stand, served on a cardboard tray and eaten with fingers.
The bread serves as a holder. And it compensates for the protein and fat content of the sausage.
Or, when we eat our versions of sandwiches (Butterbrot), the bread stands in the foreground. Bread used to be the main food staple for thousands of years. Historically, the word “bread” simply stands for food. Think of the Last Supper.
To make bread more interesting, you may eat it with butter and a slice of sausage. The Butterbrot is probably Germany’s most-eaten food item, for breakfast, in breaks, sometimes even for dinner.
When we eat sausage as a main dish (what we rarely do as sausage is considered a cheap, simple dish) we usually eat it with hash brown, mashed potatoes or potato salad.
