Bratwurst Bucyrus, Ohio (which calls itself the "Bratwurst Capital of America") has held the three-day Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival annually since 1967. Bratwurst Bratwurst () is a type of German sausage made from veal, beef, or most commonly pork. The name is derived from the Old High German "Brätwurst", from "brät-", finely chopped meat, and "Wurst", sausage, although in modern German it is often associated with the verb "braten", to pan fry or roast. While sausage recipes can be found as early as 228 AD, the first documented evidence of the "Bratwurst" in Germany dates to 1313 and can be found in
German Institute of Food Technologies where the value of the information becomes most visible. Many production plants are still not yet operating to their performance capabilities. There are many possibilities for process analysis to further improve the quality achieved so far. The "Lower Saxonian competency center for the food industry" (NieKE) is a network of cooperation between the German Institute of Food Technologies, "The Institute of Spatial Analysis and Planning in Areas of Intensive Agriculture" (ISPA) of the University of Vechta, DIALOG - "The Center for Transfer of Information and Technology" at the University of Oldenburg, "the Competency Center Functional Food" (KKF) and "The Research