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Three kids can’t wait to take a bite of their “Letzebuerger grillwurscht” sausages, fresh from the grill. The sausages are more finely ground and contain less cumin and more pepper than Germany’s “thuringer” sausage.

Hungry patrons wait patiently in the background as a Kiwanian cooks “Letzebuerger grillwurscht” to a golden brown.

Sausage sales sizzle

It was a sad day when Luxembourg butchers were ordered to stop selling their most popular sausage. Luxembourgers long favored a pork product they called thuringer. But in August 2006, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg received legal notice that only sausage from Thüringen, Germany, could be called thuringer.

In response, Luxembourg dubbed its sausage “Letzebuerger grillwurscht.” And among the first to grill up the newly named sausage was the Kiwanis Club of Letzebuerg International, which reported “un grand succés” with a sausage-grilling fundraiser.

“The Letzebuerger grillwurscht,” says Brussels Link, Belgium, Kiwanian Eddy Goldenberg, “are good, full of energy, and traditional.” Sausage sales were hot, Eddy notes, adding, “The name change gives us something to laugh about!”