Hot dog! 'Green viagra' or gin and tonic sausages, anyone?

Butcher Matthias Freund has won numerous awards for his creative varieties of sausage, with flavours such as gummy bear, nettle or gin and tonic. — Photos: dpa

Spaghetti bratwurst. Gin and tonic bratwurst. Cranberry-bacon bratwurst. Truffle bratwurst. What sounds like a list of flavours made by a creative first-grader can in reality be found at a shop in, where else, Bavaria.

A stroll along the counter at the Freund butcher shop in Sailauf, near Aschaffenburg in southern Germany, reveals more than 200 strangely spiced sausages. There are so many varieties, in fact, that the shop made the Guinness World Records in 2018.